Omaha mall shooting from responding Officer's viewpoint

[BILLY D.]

I'm with you skeet. If you can't deal with death you have no business being in the Police Force or the military. Find a job in a bank or the sales career fields.

I may sound like a calloused rotten human being but it bothered me not one iota to have to kill. I didn't like it and I didn't relish in it. It was what I was paid to do and for the protection of my Comrades.

As Patton once said " your duty is not to die for your country, it's to make the other SOB die for his." Or something to that effect.

I have not suffered from PTSD. Although I do have the occassinal bad dreams about choppers, especially when one of the Med Evac choppers from the local hospital flies over in the middle of the night. That makes the hair on my neck and arms stand up.

I'm a condition Orange type guy anyway, I always try to be aware of my surroundings. This was especially important when I played High School Football. I wasn't exactly built like "The Bus".

As far as I'm concerned Sergeant Bakers most relevent statement is his last paragraph. The rest was psychobabble.

If you have reservations about having to kill a BG or the Enemy, ya better find a different line of work.

Best wishes, Bill