Troops Need to Blow Off Steam

According to a recent editorial by Lionel Beehner of USA Today, what deployed troops need more than anything else is more opportunities to blow off steam. I could not agree more with Beehner's opinion. Soldiers overseas have copious amounts of down time and frequent boredom. Because of this boredom, troops have been known to do any number of things to blow off steam. For example, soldiers from different parts of the world have been making dancing and lip-syncing videos to different American pop songs. These videos have received mixed reviews from people from all works of life, but I say good for those men and women who have the courage to show who they are despite the uniforms they wear. Also, due to the trauma of wartime, The Department of Veterans Affairs has recently relaxed the requirements for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Now veterans are doing things like playing paintball to ease themselves back into society after serving overseas. "Stress relievers are critical to keeping morale up and casualties down," Beehner says, and he's right. Think of how low the stress level here at home is compared to the stresses overseas, and despite that, we still have dozens of opportunities to blow off steam. Shouldn't the soldiers who are in even higher stress situations daily have just as many opportunities, if not more?
Beehner's intended audience is the American people that are unaware of the need for healthy and constructive ways to soothe troops' nerves, and his editorial is perfectly suited for just that.