1. Factors and Responses to Combat Exhaustion
... were unprepared for this sudden thrust into war. One soldier stated that soldiers seemed "pathetic" and not like warriors at all. He said that soldiers were just "American boys who by mere chance of fate had wound up with guns in their hands, sneaking up a death-laden street in a strange and shattered city in a faraway country." Young American men were ... basically dumped onto the battlefield. Soldiers simply did not receive the quality of training they needed to confidently fight. Training did not prepare soldiers for coping with the fear they would encounter. A strong fear among sold...
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