Retired general: US troops should suck it up, embrace 'brutality of combat'

When shown statistics from a new report indicating mental health problems among 30% of soldiers who were in combat 56 hours a week, McCaffrey shot back, "Oh, come on now" and invoked the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. "It's a tough life," he insisted. "If you can't embrace the brutality of combat, you shouldn't be in the infantry."



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