LH:

Temper yourself, buddy. Both forces are very much in play.

Carol, if you were trying to recruit people from the current generation into the armed forces, wouldn't you use their video-gamer backgrounds? It's not that the recruiters think war is a game, it's that they are trying to appeal to kids raised on information toys like video games and iChat. Anyone who thinks war is like a video game changes their POV very quickly when they find themselves in a fire-fight, I am sure.

An interesting dissertaion on what this feels like can be found in the very well done book "Blackhawk Down" which details the Mogodishu firefights.

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