The two men who carried out apparent terror attacks on New Year’s Day — killing 15 people by plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, and detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas — both had U.S. military backgrounds, according to the Pentagon.
From 1990 to 2010, about seven persons per year with U.S. military backgrounds committed extremist crimes. Since 2011, that number has jumped to almost 45 per year, according to data from a new, unreleased report shared with The Intercept by Michael Jensen, the research director at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland.
Military service is also the single strongest individual predictor of becoming a “mass casualty offender,” far outpacing mental health issues, according to a separate study of extremist mass casualty violence by the researchers.
What do you think is going to happen to these people who join the military? I just had one of my friends who is 22 join the US military in Georgia. I’m Canadian but I got to hear their story over the past six months.
Step one … 2 weeks of indoctrination and psychological training to push you physically and mentally to the point where you are programmed to just listen, take orders and don’t ask questions.
Then the rest of your military career is decided on the whims of those above you. You follow orders even if they are wrong. And even if you know they are wrong orders or that you don’t want to follow them, they make it so hard for you to gauge that decision that no matter what happens, the majority of everyone just follows orders like robots.
I’m glad the Canadian experience is different from your Georgia story.
Tbf Canadian military personnel stories aren’t that much different than American.
I know guys who have military service and they face similar shit as Americans do.
The only difference between CAN and the US is we aren’t involved in half the conflicts America is.
He is going to kill innocent people and then get PTSD and write pity stories about how he killed innocent people.