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This isn’t real though, is it?

Here’s a real story: Back when I was in the army I was in a unit that helped train unarmed UN observers and journalists for conflict zones. Basically we role played as (cold) warring factions, simulated abductions, torture and terror tactics (within the limits of the law).

So we rolled out on that maneuver for UN observers and the first thing on day two was an ambush on their convoy. Two armored transports boxed them in and corralled them onto a clearing. There we proceeded to pull them out of their cars, weapons trained at them, and made them kneel in a line. Every one of us (each UN soldier had a handler) yelled at them at the top of our lungs to lose their helmets, vests and finally lay spread eagle on the ground as soon as our “major” gave the orders.

I got to the point when they were supposed to lay flat on their bellies with my guy when he simply locked up. *Guy couldn’t do anything anymore. The man was from Georgia (the Caucasus country). He was in a war down there and had been taken “prisoner” by one of the scum militias in that time. This guy has gotten legitimately triggered that day, he was reliving a trauma, me yelling in his ear and pointing a gun at his skull. This was serious.

This PC crap makes a mockery out of heroes like this man and what victims of severe trauma go through!

Holy cow, looks like I got “triggered” well enough by this. Sorry for the rant, but I can’t just stand it anymore.

 

*I know all that from the debrief and meet and greet at the end of the exercise. It is part of the whole thing to calm down tensions and look each other in the eyes at the end.