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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
(www.theguardian.com)
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That's one of the key issues with army in general, aside from, y'know, killing people.
Soldiers are always pawns in someone else's political game, they don't get to choose what to fight for and have to follow whatever orders they receive. It's weird that only now they realize that.
I wonder if any of them have seen No Escape?
Parade starts, all going textbook, rioters get into the fray, national guardsmen take up defensive positions, then the more conflicted national guardsmen are like nah and back off and some of the less ones are peer pressured into it, then the police force gets into it with both sides, then the rioters quell the police, and then all eyes turn to the man himself...
God, I don't ask for much, but, just this once maybe?
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They're unhappy, but they'll do as they're told. They've been trained that way. Without that training, chaos would result.
That's how the military works. If a unit doesn't work together and do as commanded, soldiers die. They may feel bad about what they're doing, but their training will override that. They may suffer from PTSD in the future, of course.