Jeffrey Blankfort wrote:
.... the bonding of air force pilots and crew is more dependent on the
risks they take then the is the bonding of grunts on the ground who are
put through, collectively, a difficult period of military training which
is intended to toughen them through a process of dehumanization followed
by ....
One result of that process, however, is a type of bonding that I have
yet to see in any other walk of life.
JW reply:
I don't think that it is so much the training as the shared experience
and the fact that everyone has to depend on everyone else to pull their
weight for maximum survival. You find the same bond in any team that
works close together for extended periods of time. In the military the
bond is strongest amongst those who actually go into combat together
because the stakes are highest there and the bond is most important.
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