CptStern
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Wouldn't being trained with strict discipline, routines, and knowledge of warfare help one constrain one's emotional outbursts? Especially after being exposed to live fire combat?
not necessarily, while vets are proportionally less likely to be incarcerated than their civilian counterparts, the crimes themselves are more violent than the general population:
More than half (57%) of veterans in State prison were serving time for a violent offense, including 15% for homicide and 23% for sexual assault which included rape. Among nonveterans, less than half (47%) were in State prison for a violent offense; 1 in 5 were held for homicide (12%) or sexual assault (9%).
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/vsfp04.pdf