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You realize a huge part of basic is getting people to be capable of functioning for an in stressful situations?



True - although I feel like every other job that deals with high stress situations finds other ways to give people that training. Also you can always drop out.


At least in combat MOS, there aren't very many comparable civilian jobs that train in a "friendly" manner. SWAT and HRT (FBI) often have former servicemen who have already learned or been trained to deal with combat situations.




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