This Twitter thread from J.R. Salzman says it all
While people who have never served in the military set their hair on fire over the ban on gender confused people, I thought it might be helpful to hear from someone who actually has some experience serving in combat.
And I found the perfect guy: J.R. Salzman – an Iraq War vet and wounded warrior.
He laid it all out in one hell of a Twitter thread.
I served in Iraq in 2006. For the first five months I was on a 12 man firebase out in the middle of nowhere in the desert.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Everyday was Groundhog Day. Wake up and do the same patrols, the same shifts, every single day. It was so damn hot. 150° in the gun trucks.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Tracer fire would go overhead occasionally at night. IED's on the road were a daily threat. We got resupplied food every 8 days.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
QRF was an hour away. After they made the minimum three gun truck rule after the guys got kidnapped, life got harder.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
The stress of being out there and doing the same job every single day eats away at you. The younger guys had problems with that overtime.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Any tiny little personal issue they had suddenly became a mountain. And that shit came out on that fire base. And they snapped mentally.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
After stepping on each other's nuts living in the same can for five months, guys were at each other's throats. The stress made it worse.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Guys would literally snap over a dear John letter. Their personal issues came out and they were instantly combat ineffective.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Now take someone confused about whether they are a man/woman. Take those psychological and emotional issues and put them in that environment
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Take someone who is right off the bat not uniform or part of the same team. Give them special treatment because of their identity.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Take that person, put them in that stressful war environment and watch what happens. It's a fucking ticking time bomb.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
You have to be incredibly tough mentally, physically and emotionally. War is not a fucking video game. It tests every ounce of your being.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
You can't teach someone to be a fearless warrior in a fucking PowerPoint. You either have it or you don't. You can hack it or you can't.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
We had guys who couldn't. When faced with combat situations they crumbled. They had mental and emotional issues. They were a liability.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
To be successful at war, you have to become a warrior mentally, physically, and emotionally. You can't fake it and go through the motions.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
In war if it comes down to kill or be killed, and you hesitate, you're dead. It's a simple as that. It's not a fucking video game.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your shit together, or you don't.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
And if you don't, you'll just get people needlessly killed. Political correctness has absolutely no place in the military.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
Enough for now. This one armed veteran has a business to run. Unlike Iran, the country that took my arm, Obama didn't pay me millions.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) July 26, 2017
What I tell you? Is that not the best Twitter thread ever?
I really have nothing else to add to this.
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Powerful!
From one (VN) war vet to another: Well said!
You can tell by the re-tweets and likes he hit the nail right on the head!
The End.
One of the best (if not the best) explanation I’ve seen or heard.
It damn sure isn’t a video game, there are no replays or shutting down.
Those that have experienced war/combat know.
As I told my son-in-law upon his return from Iraq, “Don’t expect friends and family to understand the experienced you lived, they’ll never understand.” What is important to them is the new car they just bought, what bar they went to last week or their latest promotion since you were away.
Very few really give a shit where you’ve been or what you did to survive and they wouldn’t understand either.
We that served realize it’s not a game, those that stay behind and profit from it say and we’ve all heard, send in the military. We bleed they dance as in the Kuwait fiasco. War is hell if you are there only. Otherwise we wave the flag once a year and feel vindicated. We got ours, tough shit man.
Oh, God bless that wonderful man! And all those who serve/served.
The military is not a Petri dish. It is supposed to be a fighting machine that destroys our enemies, not a place where some freak can “adjust his/her/its new bra/jock straps” and swish his/her/its way thru sand, dirt, rocks, etc.
I agree with DJT 100%.