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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Not always true.
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This is why I use the term anecdotal. In any event, while you may not have been looking to kill folks just for the sake of killing folks, neither were you looking to avoid it at any cost--unless your recruiter was the Hernando Cortez of recruiters. Perhaps, though, "looking for a fight" is a bit overstating the zeal of many of the infantry. "Willing to serve by fighting" might be more accurate. I will say, though, that all the combat arms guys from 4th Brigade, 3rd ID that I met hated checkpoint duty and police-style patrolling. Many of them were OIF1 vets; and if they had to be in [expletive deleted] Iraq again, they'd rather be fighting like they did the first time around than manning checkpoints and talking with the locals on foot patrols. Even the guys in my unit, who clearly weren't in the National Guard because they were frothing at the mouth for blood and guts, wanted to take the fight to enemy and leave the checkpoint to the MPs or other REMFs. They could have had all the National Guard benefits (!) while serving in a medical unit, driving a truck, or almost anything else.
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