1000 Yard Stare

What is 1000 Yard Stare?


1.

A battlefield syndrome in which a soldier may become lost in thought due to stress from the fight. The 1000 Yard Stare is named such because the soldier may seem to be focusing on an object very far away, and may even become unresponsive to external stimuli. The phrase was coined during the Vietnam war.

Many soldiers are stuck in the 1000 Yard Stare after combat stress.

See shellshock, ptsd, war, combat

2.

The 1000 Yard Stare, or the 2000 Yard Stare, was a symptom of battlefield stress and exhaustion. It became named so during World War II, because the victim would become unresponsive and stare "a thousand yards off".

After the invasion of Peleiu, many Marines would fall victim to the 1000 Yard Stare after numerous days of endless combat.

See 1000, yard, stare, 2000, marine, combat, stress, world, war, 2

3.

It is a term from the Vietnam war that was originally used to describe the look in the eyes of front line soldiers that gave one the impression that they were ever watchful out to the 1,000 yard line (where possible) as that was considered to be the extent of the danger zone.

Later for American troops it was sometimes used, with a different intonation, to describe the vacant expression on the face of dope-heads just serving out their time

After the vietnam war, alot of people had the 1000 yard stare.....

See vietnam, stare, war, usa, killing


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