Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 38
Either response--wanting to go, or a workmanlike desire to do it well and get it over with--is fine and it is not for us to judge those who feel either way. These are warriors who are willing to answer the summons of the trumpet and enter into the realm of combat; their response, I believe, is quite healthy. Those who do not face combat with eagerness or steely determination are probably the ones who, as Steve Tarani and Damon Fay put it in their excellent book Contact Weapons, will have " a debilitating and life-altering event" that will send them "into an unrecoverable psychological tailspin."
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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