While in the service, the rock ’n’ roller was schooled in sociopathic behavior including mass murder, dousing humans with napalm, dropping bombs on villagers, and eradicating personal feelings of empathy. Simultaneously, he was trained to rely on various amphetamines and sedatives to stay awake endlessly for “maneuvers” or to sleep when convenient. The soldier had to be a bloodthirsty death machine, and his trainers used the latest in psychological and pharmaceutical science to transform him appropriately. US soldiers were in a state of psychotic hallucination for much of their service terms,
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