Word: soldierism
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...Bank employee. Then he waited stoically through the investigation phase, when it only gradually became clear his days were dwindling down. He entered the final week fighting, and even after the White House removed Wolfowitz from life support a few days ago, he doubled down with a vow to soldier on. From a distance, it might have seemed heroic. But much of it was psy-war for the climactic round...
...Israelis who share the growing horror for the human rights abuses that are carried out daily by the IDF. Try Tanya Reinhart’s recent Road Map to Nowhere perhaps; or if the unadorned words of ordinary Israeli citizens are preferred, take for example this former IDF soldier: “I didn’t humiliate Palestinians most of the time, but I stood by and did nothing while it happened... I didn’t think I was someone evil. I had become the essence of the evil without even thinking about it.” SONJA...
...longer tours are accompanied by a guaranteed year at home for soldiers between deployments, a move hailed by many as beneficial for troop morale and important for staving off burnout. But that year includes a rigorous schedule of month-long stints at the National Training Centers and live-fire field exercises that can last days at a time. Even if soldiers are back in the U.S. for a year, little more than half of that time is spent with family, and the next deployment always looms large. "We go home and immediately start preparing for the next deployment," says Polk...
...Todd Polk, stumbling from his tent in the bitter mountain cold, knew it was going to be bad news. "I thought it was going to be a major problem," he says. "Maybe another 9/11." While the subject of the meeting was nothing like the 2001 terrorist attacks, for the soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary unit of the 10th Mountain Division, it may have similar consequences. Two days before the brigade was due to leave Afghanistan after its year-long stint - some units, in fact, were already in Kuwait awaiting flights home - Captain Polk and his team learned that...
...Soldiers deploying abroad have always had to contend with missing a child's birth, a sibling's wedding or a parent's death. They face fatigue and frustration no matter the duration of stay. Their spouses suffer at home, and marriages fall apart under the strain of separation. And the stress of deployment in a hostile combat zone has a corrosive effect on discipline. Three more months may not seem that long to a civilian, but to a soldier already on the ground, it's another 90 days in which a lot could go wrong. "It's like running...