Asking Soldiers If They Killed Someone. #shorts#army

[originallynot]

Second best thing to ask is "Did you had fun in Afghanistan?"

[renderedpixels]

I shit you not, my brother was like probably 10, maybe younger and we went to some racing event in california and the army was there with a bunch of shit, my brother asked one of the guys there "When you kill people do you take their stuff". The look on the soldiers face was fucking PRICELESS.

[danielwoods]

I’d like to say I had some stories of daring strategy and danger but all I ever saw were bombs strapped to children and cellphones taped to gas cans

[Littlemanairsoft]

“DID YOU BLOW A MAN UP WITH AN M203?”

“YES.”

[ronrobertson]

Most guys don't know if they hit anyone or not in a fire fight. In open terrain like Iraq or in urban warfare you may know but not so much in Vietnam.

[hammer]

There's a reason why most soldiers rarely talk about their combat deployments. Even then, it will often be with haunted words and distant stares. This goes especially for basically Vietnam and prior. War is war, often its worse than hell

[owenoneil]

I was at Boy Scout camp with my dad, he was active at the time. One of my best friends still to this day says that my dad taught him the best and most powerful lesson of his life. My friend asked my dad “how many people have you killed” my dad responded “buddy, I don’t think that’s a question you should ask a soldier, it’s not your fault you asked it. But please never forget this conversation and don’t ask another soldier this question”

[__prometheus__]

Years ago someone asked that to my 8th grade teacher who was in desert storm. It was a bruh moment

[ElvenPrince]

I feel like this is up there with asking an emt or paramedic "whats the worst call you've been on" you just shouldn't ask, if they want you to know they'll tell you but otherwise just let sleeping dogs lie.

[schinkenei]

I asked this question to a sniper, a instructor for another platoon in basic. He just replied: that something you don’t ask. And I go by that

Edit: I’ve sparked quite a commotion. I asked him in a respectful way and he declined this polite yet professional and direct. You can’t compare being a sniper to being a carpenter.
Please keep that in mind

[HappyBear]

I killed a joke or two, ask my friends.
The only person I answered that question to was my Dad and the only reason he asked was because I was Drinking too much, getting in to fights to get beaten up. It made me feel better but I'm still ungood. (Thanks DVA)

[doms.]

Never asked but my grandfather, who fought in nam, told me about one kill. It was when he asked me what I had planned for after highschool and told him maybe the military and the Marines because that's what he served. He told my mom and grandma to excuse themselves from the dinner table. He told me something that changed my life and got me to not join. He just wanted me to understand what it means to be a marine and serve in a war that he felt was similar to his. He told me this back in '08. He said that it's not the enemy you killed that keeps you up at night, it's the little boy who didn't understand what you were saying, the little boy who had something in his hands that could be a grenade, the little boy that wanted nothing to do with the war, the little boy who didn't stop because he didn't speak English, and the little boy who just had a firetruck toy in his hands, that's the kill that will haunt you.

[patrickvilla]

My father fought in WWII. He fought in North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes, and invasion of Germany.
He fought for General Patton and the 3rd and 1st Armies.
When I was very young, my dad had his medals displayed from a piece of black velvet cloth in his den. I asked him if he had ever killed anyone in the war.
He replied: "No mijo. Only Germans."
Frank R. Villa
Staff Sgt
3rd Army
15th infantry division
M company

[jake]

When I was talking to one of the guys I work with, he had mentioned that he got shot 4 times. He's got 2 purple hearts and 1 other award, +1 more nomination for a purple heart. Like his 2nd week he was talking about how he was almost exclusively in urban combat and someone asked if he's killed anyone. "More people than work in the whole department" Funny enough, nobody asked that again 😂

[capt.raptor]

in Basic, one of the trainees asked my platoon's DSDS (Deputy Senior Drill Sergeant, the "deputy" he added himself because it was his last cycle and there was _technically_ already a Senior Drill Sergeant for every platoon) not only if he had killed anyone, but if he had killed any *children.* mind you, this man was one hard fucker. Master Infantry, so good at shooting that he could (and did) literally point trainee's weapons on the qual range for them all while being _beside_ the weapon, not _behind_ it, and generally, the man was a fucking legend. you could absolutely see in this man's eyes that he had seen some shit. he had a perpetually perturbed look to him.

so anyways, his answer to the question was "no one under 12."
he then reminded us that our enemies are not above using child soldiers; that when a weapon is being pointed in your direction, you have a choice to make. either take out the threat, or risk you and your comrades' lives. there's no room for hesitation. it's them or you.

[angelastone]

My ex was in the infantry & was deployed twice between 2010-2014. After he was discharged & came back from Fairbanks we threw him a welcome home party where everyone got pretty trashed. His younger sister started asking him why he was drinking so much & if it had to do with “the people he MURDERED.” I was SO thankful their oldest sister slapped the shit out of her before I was able to get close enough to do it myself, they can forgive family for that shit but they would have held it against me forever if I took that swing. Later on that night when he had blacked out as I was helping him into bed, he broke down telling me some of what he went through over there & what he had to do to make sure he left the war with his life+limbs intact. I was told very little details as he didn’t want me to think less of him for things he had done, it’s no surprise at all how screwed up with ptsd most of our combat vets are. Just the small things he told me gave me nightmares & I never lived it.

[UncreativeN]

I killed fiddy men!
- Cotton Hill.

[allywolf]

I didn't even ask my fiancé that. He told me one night when he was drunk though. I just want to give all of you big hugs!!!

[bainetowers]

My dad was gaurd, said he never shot anyone himself in Iraq but he also will not talk about Iraq. One time I went through his computer looking for a movie I was trying to burn so I could bring it to a friend's and there was just a endless slew of dead body photos, videos of explosions, the whole shebang. My mom walked into the room when this happened, as I sat there just scrolling through the carnage. She told me, "this is why you need to be a man like your dad, so that those bodies don't become your friends and family." He deleted all of them that day. It might have been too late but I'll never forget that day.

[jayjaybob]

A lot of soldiers have had to do some really bad things just to survive. It's not all "yeah let's go get the bad guys!" Sometimes it's a civilian who runs into the middle of a firefight, sometimes it's the Vietcong putting a car full of women and children on the mountain pass so when you stop to help them they gun you down, and sometimes it's an enemy combatant that's just a boy who got handed a gun at 12 after his dad was killed and told "those dudes over there killed your dad".

There's a reason why no one ever really wins when it comes to war. All that's left is pain, loss, and scars that will never truly heal.