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Old 03-12-2012, 11:46 AM   #43
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I suppose the movie, "Platoon" and events like the "May Lay Massacre" in Viet Nam, show the depth to which troops can lose their humanity. However, even in those situations, it was more than one involved, which may have given it more of an "order by a superior officer" or "group mentality" involvement. My first thought, with an individual incident like this, is that the sargeant just "cracked" and went crazy in a psychopathic frenzy.
I guess.

But then this type of psychopathic behaviour has been happening over and over in Afghanistan. Remember the soldiers that formed a kill team to shoot civilians for sport?
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