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You bring up some good points Gadfly.

I remember my drill sergeants telling us recruits that the first kill is the toughest and it gets easier after number three.

I remember my drill sergeants telling us recruits that if we survived our first fire fight our chances of surviving combat went up exponentially. The reason they gave is that new soldiers in their first fire fight tend to freeze and forget their training. My police work tended to bear this out.

All my drill sergeants were former airborne, ranger or special forces. All had a minimum of one combat tour of Vietnam, many were Korea War vets, and a few cought the tail end of WWII.