[quote=KeyboardKilroy]
I guess that makes sense, although you might have thought that the soldiers would have become selfish. By that, I mean they would have been safer behind their Apache gunships, cruise missiles, tanks and machine guns than if they went AWOL. They would have seen how bad things were first hand, no one in their right mind would have just "walked off" on a suicide mission to find their families. 
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Have you served before?