Apparently "brainpower" means learning how to hunt humans.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080302/ap_on_re_us/marines_the_hunted

I thought it would be learning Arabic, spy techniques, psyops. No. What they're learning is "big game hunting." I'm using scare quotes because the rhetoric of this article is off the charts as far as I'm concerned. Sounds more like "instinct power" to me.

Can't wait 'til these kids come home and test their big game huntin' skills on me when I tense up in my driveway because I realize I forgot my house keys. Let's hope the PTSD drugs are nice and strong.

[Smith_3]

1. What also bothers me about his rhetoric is the "they didn't grow up outside" thing.

So, what he is saying, is that the "good old" generation could have handled those tasks easily, but the young spoiled "video game" generation is largely incompetent with regards to this.

Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me. Like the constant repetition of the claim, that todays youth cares more about American Idol than about anything else. It simply isn't true. I bet todays youth knows more about urban behaviour than the old hillbilly types. And I bet there are a bunch of old grandmas that like to watch American Idol.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Actually....

...not BS at all. Years ago I went through a similar course that taught a group of us how to recognize threats within the fabric of an urban environment. The course increased everyone's level of awareness and how to distinguish the mundane from the threatening. The final practical test was conducted in a mid-Atlantic city and suffice to say it was a compelling exercise. I've retained the techniques I've learned to this day and it has on more than one occasion kept me out of harm's way.

And yes I am an outdoor guy.

[undergroundpanther]

2. PSTD drugs?

The only PSTD drugs the DOD are interested in are those to REMOVE the consience and the empathy .
In other words drugs to turn a human being being tuirned into a human skinned gun for rich pigs,into a psychopath all so they can kill and not feel anything inside.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s817005.htm

What I fear is ,some of these people coming back will be unable to feel, empathize or give a shit when they blow innocent people away,and they will NOT get PSTD from the horrors they perpetuate.
Just what the psychopath elites want,for people to forget they ever were traumatized so the person can do more dirty work and never feel a thing or care about anyone.
http://www.nowpublic.com/opinions/drug-us-soldiers-ptsd-moral-lobotomy

Will citizens be enlightened about what we are condoning in our ignorance, dispassion or indifference? Or will these two solutions simply bring us closer to realizing the bullet-proof mind, devoid of the inconvenient vulnerability of decent human beings to atrocity and horror? And finally, these are all questions about the morality of proposals that are trying to prevent injuries without changing the social circumstances that bring them about, which sidestep the most fundamental moral dilemma: that of sending people to war in the first place.

Do we want a world without love?

[readmoreoften]

3. Hmmm. I didn't realize the PTSD drugs made them sociopaths.

Figures. Not likely that the military would want them to have human empathy. They'd have no value on their 2nd tour of duty.