User blog comment:Griever0311/Calling all wiki personnel/@comment-1260687-20100428170629

I'm not gonna lie, I painted my face up as a death's head, had all kind of hateful patches and phrases in English and Arabic all over my armor and helmet, and left aces of spades on all the dead, and generally tried to appear as intimidating and frightful a possible anytime we weren't wearing our "smiley face". The point is to cultivate an air of inhumanity and fear in those you fight. Overhelming violence and a projected air of invulnerability cut down on violence in the long run. We pacified the enemy everywhere we went, because they knew that nothing but death awaited them, and that we more more than happy to deal it out to whoever stepped up.