User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Deux/@comment-1260687-20100317010251

@Clavix2: No, but every aspect of our training reinforces a psychological imperative of speed, violence, and intensity. I've lost a few buddies that I went to SOI with, and guys that I knew casually from drinking in the barracks, and it never did anything except drive home a point that we needed to kill those fuckers. For every one we lost, we killed dozens, so it's all right. And no, answering the qustions has been a nice distraction; I've been proofreading my resume and cooking for a vast majority of the time I've been on here today.