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99 Days Fatality Count ? (Contains Spoilers)


This was such a believably acted film on an important and rarely covered topic - the actually reality and consequences of violence that 99.99% of films pretend don't exist!

What struck me as critical however was what deaths are considered important in the fatality count. Apparently only the death toll among the soldiers of the Garrison count not the deaths they witness but as the quote at the beginning says:

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers" - Jose Narosky.

DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS MEANS THAT IF NO SOLDIERS HAD ACTUALLY DIED IN THIS STORY - ONLY THEIR VICTIMS - THEN THE DAYS SINCE FATALITY COUNT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RESET?

Here is an article about the movie and the actual Fort Bragg killings on which the film is based:

http://austin.tribe.net/listing/Garrison-The-Movie-by-AWOL-Studios-of-San-Antonio-TX/austin-tx/d86f6acb-4b2c-4f1f-8d7c-9017a3368fab

When I considered joining the military several years ago the thing that struck me was that it was not the possibility of dying but the possibility of having to kill others that was the real terror.

I now believe that one of the things that gets to many soldiers is actually the experience of having been trained to prevent attrocities and then being ordered to stand down and witness such attrocities with the means to prevent them in hand. The military trains people to find simple solutions to extreme problems out of the barrel of a gun. The real world isn't like that:

"There is a world of silence that sits between those who have seen unspeakable acts of violence and those who have not." -- Professor Sandy McFarlane, head of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide

http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/2008/08/australian-ptsd-documentary-casualties.html

ALSO DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE PTSD TREATMENT "WARRIOR TRANSITION" CENTRES MENTIONED AT THE END OF THE FILM?

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