That's what I mean they ignore the fact that shooting on a firing range is nothing like shooting in combat where shit is unpredictable and you almost never have a chance to stand still. They should instead only have firing ranges as a beginner test for getting acquainted with a gun and than spend the real training having you move and react to shit on the go by having your accuracy tested when running, preserving ammo and only shooting when you can hit a target or if you need to hold an enemy or group in one place which is what suppressing fire is for. Hell they should use paint ball courses to help or use harmless rubber bullets and have teams go against one another on the average to test the human target factor more so they can get used to how a real combat is more like. I think they do that nowadays but it seems to me they don't do it enough or ignore the unplanned factor where the previous strategy gets thrown out the window.
This is irrelevant when the ones out in combat are, or at least should, be the ones who already accepted they are going to kill people and there is enough cases in modern times of soldiers mocking and even pissing on dead enemy soldiers to show they have zero issues dehumanizing the enemy. It's mostly the rookies who have issues before they get used to it and those are the ones that need better and more accurate training for what they will have to go through, or should not be in combat to begin with if they have no drive to kill.
That's exactly what I mean, if they want to better prepare people for the real thing they should constantly have them tested with combat drills or surprise shoot outs with paint balls or rubber bullets and force them to repeatedly face combat situations they have no idea about until they face each other forcing them to react to unpredictable circumstances like they would in real life since the old saying goes "no battle plan survives contact with the enemy". Shit I remember reading Ender's game about that and it feels more relevant as I get older where they constantly had the MC's team forced to fight again and again even when they barely had sleep and no clue what was going on and yeah, it's a fictional book, but reading through actual history tells me that battles always never go to plan and the best way to deal with them is to be mentally prepared more than anything else.
Yes that is a constant fear and something no one can really be prepared for but other circumstances like battle plans going awry can be helped mitigated with constant fake fights that have shit go wrong forcing them to quickly adapt so they have a better chance in the real world if shit goes wrong.
Yeah and all I am saying is that because that is something that cannot be taken out of the equation it is better to at least do more to mentally prepare the guys who will go through that with drills that stimulate actual combat more than just firing at a range by having your accuracy tested in a more realistic situation.
The reason that soldiers are, in all honestly, professional killers who need to throw away whatever humanity holds them back from killing an enemy when the real shit hits the fan? Stuff like that is why I think more mental training needs to be put in to better prepare guys for the real thing with them being questioned, tested, and put through the grind on if they have the balls to actually kill another human being or react better than the average person in the event of a plan gone wrong in stuff like an ambush. It's a good thing we do not have a draft where people are forced to join the military and people just join out of their own volition, but if people join who are just not up to the task and end up flipping their shit in the real thing than there needs to be more mental training and testing to help weed out the normal joes from the natural born killers. It doesn't have to be perfect for things to improve, it just needs to be taken more seriosuly, something I doubt out current military is capable of.
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