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Topic Started: Apr 2 2010, 10:20 AM (155 Views)
pooley
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Yesterday on tv choice I watched danny dyers hardmen programme when he went and lived with them.

Its really quite disposable pants tv usually but the one I watched last night has got in my head and I havent been able to get it out, to the point where it effected me sleeping and Im thinking of it now.

The bloke in question was in the special forces in the gulf war, he went behind enemy lines and was trained to kill with his hands, sneek up on enemies and take photos for intelligence etc.

The bloke seemed like a usual bploke in the respect of he loved his family, lived in a nice quite are on the south coast and was all pretty normal, yet he also seemes perminantly on the edge ready to snap at any time. He still gets all geared up and goes into the hills/forrest behind where he lived and sleeps in the woods, he runs a martial arts school and has students ambush him and he has to sneek up on them etc but he doesnt know where theyre planted so even though he retired over 10 years ago from service he still goes through training regimes etc because he seems to be unable to break away from the old life and seems to be suffering some sort of mental problems from his service. I havent probably put this too well and you really need to see the programme if you havent to get the full extent, but I left feeling very sorry for both this bloke and anyone to has to see what man ids capable of doing to other men because mentally it cant leave you in a good place I wouldnt think. I know im not mentally strong enough to see what this bloke has seen and done.

This is not ment to critisise the people in the service either just to make that clear, it is more what support (mentally as well as physically) is provided fopr these people coming back who have to try and fit into 'normal' life once they have left the services.
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In short, once you've done your time then the cotton wool comes off. In the Army especially, a lot of your welfare is taken care of for you. You're told where to eat, sleep and s**t, and your family can have married quarters if you like. For some the transistion to civilian life is very difficult. The ones that adapt the best are the ones that take advantage of all the resettlement packages and educational benefits in their last two years of service.
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