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I read somewhere that only about 25% of soldiers actually aim to kill someone in war, the rest just shoot pretty much randomly. It also said the US army did some special training to raise that percentage, but that also allegedly caused a significant raise in cases of PTSD. Is this true?

by /u/eskereeeskrr in /r/AskHistorians

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