(June 1, 2019 at 6:37 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 1, 2019 at 6:31 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Not true.
Good-o.
Boru
The original was "only one in ten soldiers fired their weapons in combat." That was ... interpreted ... from the fact that 90% of US active duty personnel in WWII actually made contact with the enemy. Among those anyone who didn't fight was noted and ... dealt with.
Given the above it is hard to get normal people to kill each other in any scale. Much of infantry training is (or was, anyway) done with the goal of getting men used to the idea of fighting for their lives. Even back in the days of long lines of men facing each other and blindly firing off their smooth-bore muskets* training was aimed at making the men more afraid of their sargeant than the enemy.
*There was no "aim" in musket drill, it was pretty much pointless. The command was "level", then "fire". A musket ball pretty much bounces down the barrel and can egress with any trajectory.
