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Old 11-25-2012, 02:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
Anything less than the perfect "male" stereotype is just too uncomfortable for most to deal with.
So very true. Back in the late 80s and 90s I knew people with both physical and mental injuries who were treated very poorly by the Australian Army. I recall one of them relating to me a conversation with a senior NCO who told them "the Army has no use for broken soldiers".
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