Courtesy of This American Life I think. On WGBH, 90.9 FM Boston. Listen to it now if you can. Catch a recording online if you can't. But seriously, listen to it.
tl;dr According to the interviewee, military training is a form of temporary, induced sociopathy. And it's less temporary for some people than for others.
Seriously: listen to it. Then we'll talk about the possible repercussions.
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Interview with a soldier on NPR
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Interview with a soldier on NPR
by Cyborg Girl » Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:04 pm
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Re: Interview with a soldier on NPR
by FZR1KG » Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:04 pm
You have a link or expect us to search to find it because I tried for about 5 min then figured I could be doing other things. 
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Re: Interview with a soldier on NPR
by Cyborg Girl » Sat Jan 11, 2014 8:41 pm
Argh. I thought it was This American Life but maybe it wasn't... Now I can't seem to find it. Argh.
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Re: Interview with a soldier on NPR
by SciFi Chick » Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:40 pm
Did it have anything to do with the suicide rate?
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Re: Interview with a soldier on NPR
by FZR1KG » Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:51 am
Gullible Jones wrote:Argh. I thought it was This American Life but maybe it wasn't... Now I can't seem to find it. Argh.
Glad to see that my searching skills didn't totally turn to crap. lol
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