Re: Toys from Jane's...

Andy Cowell wrote:

> > Roger (getting tired of the "stupid grunts" comments, and I'm an
> >	     ex-squid.)
>
> That's not how I took that comment at all.

Nor I.	I think he's just giving fair acknowledgement to the fact that
combat is
stressful enough without having to introduce more into the mix. 
Admittedly, I've
never (thankfully) been in that situation myself, but being an
historian, can think
of plenty of examples of troops being affected by stress in combat
conditions (such
as soldiers in the Civil War who kept reloading their weapons without
ever firing
them, or the replacement in Aachen (WWII) who kept trying to fire his
weapon after
he'd burned through the entire clip.  The closest I can come to it is
playing
paintball, which I've done for about the past ten-twelve years, and I
still do
stupid stuff like forget to take the safety off if I don't do it before
the
shooting starts. :)

Mark