Love lift us up where we belong...

[Brian37]

People who couldn't handle basic wash out.  That's part of the purpose of basic training/boot camp.  

It still has nothing to do with Hitler, Anne Frank, or genitalia.

No, you have never lied about your 'pussyness'.  You, in fact, wrap yourself in it and use it and any abuses you suffered and present it as an excuse for nearly everything.

Yeah, I know your dad shot a gun in the house while you were in there.  That's fucked up.  But you let it define you when it actually says more about him than it does about you. You were bullied and it defines you.  At some point I would have thought you would have sought some counseling to figure out how to move forward or you would have done some work on yourself to try to move forward.

It maybe would have been easier for me to curl up into a ball and give up based on the shit I went through but that's not the life I wanted.  I learned that nearly everything that has been thrown at me by others in the last four decades is not as bad as what I lived through prior to that.

Your need to compare everything in real life to movie plots shows that you can't deal with the reality of life.

And no, I would not want you next to me in a dangerous situation.  You would revert back to your delicate abused self and couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag. You sniveling in a corner would be of no help and would most likely be a hinderance to safe outcome.

I 100% agree, the purpose of basic is to insure those who go through it can handle what follows.

I couldn't. I didn't, I failed. So why would you, or anyone who made it past basic want me in combat?

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Brian - not everyone reacts to situations like you do/did.

I made it through basic training after being raised by crazy strict, abusive parents who both had drinking problems, as well as my not fitting in socially with peers.  Some people buckle under pressure while others rise to the occasion to prove to themselves they aren't what they were raised to believe they were.

What Hitler , Ann Frank, or genitals have to do with any of your -poor me, I was bullied- stuff is beyond my understanding.

Humans buckle? NO SHIT. I did. And? 

How many people in every war make it through the training, see combat, only to come home to be scrambled in the brain and end up with all sorts of phycological, mental PTSD conditions.

If you want me to feel bad about not making it past basic, sorry. 

Like you said, and I agree, some people wash out.