>>511447397Apparently it took much less than that to break many American GWoT vets.
A bunch of them signed up as volunteers on the Ukrainian side when the ruskies launched their full scale invasion.
Alongside these vets were a bunch of attention whores, social outcasts, basement dwelling NEETs, etc, who also volunteered, often falsely claiming to have military backgrounds.
It appears that GWoT veterans had a very skewed and borderline delusional idea of what war was, because as soon as they started taking incoming cruise missile strikes and artillery barrages, a lot of them just broke mentally.
A lack of 24/7 artillery support, air support, and helicopter medevac also broke a lot of these veterans and caused them to resign and go home.
Meanwhile a lot of the weirdos, with zero military background, who were losers in their own homelands, actually kept their shit together and ended up becoming decent soldiers.
To them these issues that the GWoT veterans were freaking out about were just "normal" and expected in war, so it didn't mentally break them.