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Hard for me to judge any on the ground soldiers that have to hype themselves up to kill another man lest they be killed.
Externally said call is needlessly cruel. But that's not how things work when you have to kill someone and be prepared for another and not let the gravity of all of that crush you.
We vacillated between dehumanizing language and ritualistic reverence mixed with dark comedy for the poor bastards we were going to send to the ethereal plane. And I'm just some doc hanging out in warzones to support the trigger pullers. It's still hard to get mortar'd and not feel relief/joy that tour side smoked said mortar team of farm boys turned jihadists.