Q&A: Whats wrong with military people joking around while dispatching the enemy?
December 31, 2010
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Question: Whats wrong with military people joking around while dispatching the enemy?
apparently a video surfaced involving a misidentified target. tragic as that might have been, these indicents are bound to happen occasionally. but what was more troubling was that some people thought the soldiers attitude was “inappropriate”. well what are they supposed to do, get all teary eyed? hold a candelight vigil? some jerks seem to think they ought to to go all blubbery and start weeping uncontrollably every time they send a jihadi to meet their maker, lol
Q&A:
Answer by Sadcat
Doesn’t it seem just a little strange to you that at the moment the soldiers were taking human lives they were cracking jokes about it? Maybe they thought they were killing the enemy, but still–it’s death, and while death is inevitable in war, it is never a happy occasion.
I wouldn’t crack a joke at a heart surgery or a murder trial, either. Surely the actual firing of weapons that kill people is not an occasion for humor.
Answer by uncle meat
Keeping the workplace lighthearted makes the workday go by quickly.
Answer by Tommy B
A dead terrorist is a GOOD terrorist, so why not be light-hearted when good things happen?
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Nothing wrong with it….And I know I would be laughing and not crying whenever I sent one of the murdering scum bags to their maker.
Answer by Arthas Menethil
A liberal trying to understand combat is something that most likely will never happen. War is hell and being in one is being in Hell. You deal with it the best you can until you get home.
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My buddy usually found time to have a bathroom break after shooting one of those cowardly sh*theads. A blown off face makes a good urinal….his words.
I have absolutly no sympathy for them. If you think blowing yourself up along with a bunch of women and children gets you into heaven, you deserve to be treated without a glimpse of humanity.
The flight crew of the Elona Gay had a beer party the night before they bombed Hiroshima. That’s our good ol’-fashion macho American military culture. And some people wonder why we are surrounded by enemies around the world.
People deal with stress in different ways, joking about it has a tendency to dehumanize the event.
Does any one think that maybe the ones that get all choked up each time they shoot at someone are the ones suffering from PTSD or other mental health issues once they return. I suspect it could be a contributing factor.
people don’t want them to get all teary eyed, but no one should joke around about taking another humans life. if you have to shoot someone you have to shoot someone, but you should get it over with and forget about it, you should NOT high five the closest person and laugh at how funny he looks with part of his face missing. Not only does it show psychological problems that can cause problems when they return, it is completely disrespectful to that person and their family.
I half agree with you….this is always a difficult thing to discuss…but the point I would make is this…are they supposed to get all teary-eyed?…no….but they are supposed to be professionals…they are supposed to be soldiers…and they ended up looking like a bunch of gun-crazy murder junkies…especially in hindsight…now, I do not believe that to be the case…and civilians die in wars…it cannot be avoided…but they could have been a bit less eager…
In every war, conflict, or battle; there is always a few bad eggs that do more than just enjoy the taking of a life!
The German’s in WWII was a prime example, and that was against civilian populations!
The Japanese in the Philippines during the Bataan to Corregidor death march, unarmed, sick, wounded, starving American and Filipino prisoners were bayoneted along the 60+ mile trail; and they laughed while doing it!
Vietnam we had a few as well, I was there to witness that.
When this happens in todays world, governments are quicker to respond to such actions!
“War is a dreadful thing, and I can respect an honest pacifist, though I think he is entirely mistaken. What I cannot understand is this sort of semipacifism you get nowadays which gives people the idea that though you have to fight, you ought to do it with a long face and as if you were ashamed of it. It is that feeling that robs lots of magnificent young Christians in the Services of something they have a right to, something which is the natural accompaniment of courage- a kind
of gaity and wholeheartedness.” – CS Lewis “Mere Christianity”
Some of the answers here don’t take into account real life. Maybe we should be somber when dispatching the enemy. But our fighting men are stationed in the war zone for around a year, and during that year this is all that they do. Every morning (or start of shift) they wake-up they put on their gear, they get their marching orders and they go out and find someone to kill. they come back to base eat and go to sleep to wake up and do it all over again. So to counter the stress, to dehumanize the enemy the military trains our fighting men to be war crazed fighting machines. You have to and in that they whoop and holler on successes, They High Five on meeting objectives, and the celebrate meeting goals. Don’t you do the same thing? the difference is the job.