Word: killing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...This family subsists on that with which the realArmy, the fighting one, can no longer reliably kill. That's all right - there are lessons...
...First, that we need not fear our training. It has been braved and completed by thousands stronger and thousands weaker than ourselves, using only that which we see before us. It will not kill us unless we are miraculously stupid, and will make us stronger unless we are essentially lazy...
...Discipline Just in Case You Run Out of Bullets... When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be Ah, the Smell of Tear Gas in the Morning... Wrestling ? a Little ? With My Conscience Sorry, Sergeant, But I Backslid a Little... Learning a Soldier's Core Competency: How to Kill...
They're just green plastic silhouettes, but the symbolism is obvious when you've got to get the close ones first: Kill the enemy before he kills...
...supposed to need that. The Army is a tool, just like the rifle, and it's the excellence, the honor, the individual braveries of combat that are supposed to drive us. Whether they occur at Normandy or in Haiti doesn't matter here, only that a soldier killed whom he could kill and saved whom he could save. I can shoot now, and I really like hitting what I aim at. I have lost much of my old lust for gun control, because the Army also teaches - assiduously - when to shoot and when...