I sure wish I could find the REST of that video... The guy too that shot and got right back up ready to fight. That takes real courage, the kind that makes someone keep going and making the right decisions to LIVE, even though they're scared half out of their mind.
That video is exactly why the dumbing-down of the USAF basic training just sickens me. I'm not sure how it is right now, but for a few years the USAF was flat-out babying the recruits out of paranoia that a guy with an undiagnosed heart defect might die on the morning run or something. If the first time that dude had been really stressed was there in Iraq instead of in boot camp, would he have been able to get up, or would he have remained on the ground just waiting for the follow-up shot, wondering why the bad people were mean to him?
I can't count the number of times someone in my Academy class passed out from fatigue or stress during our first year. I managed to take a knee the one time I stopped breathing at the end of a grueling physical/mental training day when my throat just spasmed shut so I couldn't breath for a short time, but plenty of others either faceplanted or had to be assisted until they recovered. Some of those guys and girls who lived through that level of training are now amazingly cool under pressure in life or death situations, and I'm glad my instructors were allowed to impose that kind of stress on us back then so we are better able to deal with it now.
