If you feel you got nothing to lose I guess combat wouldn't be scary to those people. But hey I'm just a civie so I guess I'm not qualified to answer that

You don't even have to get to the shooting part. Carrying and wearing gear 24/7 is a pain in the ass. Then you have the stress of having to constantly be on edge and on the look out. You are always tired, hungry wet and hot or cold.

And those little hotspots that you can get and blister up. Not so cool if you can’t keep it clean and it gets infected and you die

Although I have read and heard of some people who do miss combat who fought

Hell there was a soldier who fought in different armies around WW2 to vietnam just to keep fighting

Legit moved to the US just to fight in vietnam

@Killerratchet that is true, you do grow accustomed to it. And when you aren't doing it you get what is called the "itch" and long for it. Then when you get back to it, you remember how much it sucks and just want to go home again. Its a fucked up cycle.

Grass is greener on the other side situation huh?

Pretty much. I get the itch, and I ignore it as much as I can.

I'll be honest, I feel like I missed out throughout my deployments. Didnt see much when I was flying in 5th fleet.

Lot of training for nothing. Oh well

There was one vet I remember that seemed pretty enthusiastic talking about his combat experience

Ugh we have a lot of big mouthed fobbits here. Guys who joined up to be special forces badasses and just ended up cleaning toilets.

Now I'm doing an instructor tour and probably wont do a flying deployment again until I make O4

When he blew someone up with an M203 he was all "There were guts everywhere it was pretty rad"

@Killerratchet those are called Fobbits. The more they talk about combat the less they actually saw.

lol

Well I didn't know this person personally

It was a video where they interviewed vets who fought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXCQZhtzEs this guy

Yeah well generally the rule of thumb for the guys who brag is that at best; they are grossly exaggerating, at the worst they are just making it up.

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Yeah sorry man, kinda got off topic.

I understand

Oh <#659316379307999242> haha

Anyone got any news on the upcoming rally in Richmond on the 20th?

Police: 2 parishioners shot and killed Texas church gunman
https://news.yahoo.com/2-dead-1-hurt-shooting-185558943.html

Holy shit

It's like being able to carry a gun actually helps

And not punishing those who carry in a "gun free zone"

Speaking of being punished for protecting yourself

You guys have legal protection? Thoughts?

?

US Law Shield for instance

Ah. I don’t no. I thought about it

Guy broke into my home a few months ago. I was just getting out the shower and obviously had my gun. He ran out as soon as he seen me. Didn’t even get 5 feet inside my place lol but it could have ended up worse for him and that’s when i was thinking about getting some

It’s funny because it was happening the same time that whole “shower gun” guy thing happened

Is it something we'd have to worry about in a "stand your ground"/"Castle doctrine" state?

Yes

Check out USCCA

I'm familiar with them