Our boys don't get enough good pub

[UberTong]

Funny how we don't hear about all the times like this when our guys take every single precaution to do the job right.

[Lex_Luthor]

good vid!

[Ronin13]

Great video, I've seen that one before and it's amazing what our rotor boys have to go through now a days just to get guns on target. I know an Apache pilot who fired on some insurgents when I was in Afghanistan and he said one of the rockets he fired collapsed a wall of a hut and killed an innocent- he told me how heavy a burden that is to weigh on you, knowing that yes, you killed the enemy, but there was an innocent civilian killed in the process. ROE over there is really strict and it's making it harder for the good guys to do their job and destroy the enemy, but it's really necessary to avoid collateral damage and turn the populous against us.

[UberTong]

Great video, I've seen that one before and it's amazing what our rotor boys have to go through now a days just to get guns on target. I know an Apache pilot who fired on some insurgents when I was in Afghanistan and he said one of the rockets he fired collapsed a wall of a hut and killed an innocent- he told me how heavy a burden that is to weigh on you, knowing that yes, you killed the enemy, but there was an innocent civilian killed in the process. ROE over there is really strict and it's making it harder for the good guys to do their job and destroy the enemy, but it's really necessary to avoid collateral damage and turn the populous against us.

Well said Ronin, thanks for your service.

[bobbyfairbanks]

I couldn't disagree with you more. The only thing that these people understand is power and money. Unless you fight this war like Vikings, we will lose and right now I am telling you get used to that losing feeling.

And yes I am talking from fighting there.

[Ronin13]

Well said Ronin, thanks for your service.

Glad to have done it... thanks for your support.
Wanna see a film that really shows what it's really like? Check this out, it's available on Netflix if you have it, Restrepo:
http://youtu.be/-DjqR6OucBc
[Sorry don't know how to put the embedded video on here like the OP]

I couldn't disagree with you more. The only thing that these people understand is power and money. Unless you fight this war like Vikings, we will lose and right now I am telling you get used to that losing feeling.

And yes I am talking from fighting there.

Oh I know exactly what you mean, but we have too much political red tape to deal with to make it so the enemy is more afraid of us than anything else, the leadership in Washington doesn't want to try to stomp out the enemy so they really don't do anything about punishing those who give aid to the enemy, I've seen what happens when they catch someone who aids Taliban and other insurgent fighters, and it's not shoot them in the head for cooperating.

[UberTong]

Ronin I own three copies of Restrepo, bought one for me and my brother and gave one away to a co worker. So much red tape it makes me sick, if we took the handcuffs off our guys...

[Ronin13]

Ronin I own three copies of Restrepo, bought one for me and my brother and gave one away to a co worker. So much red tape it makes me sick, if we took the handcuffs off our guys...

It is such a great film huh? I know a guy who spend 60 days out there and talked to him after the film and he said that place is no joke.
Like the general says in "The Siege": "You don't fight a junk yard dog with ASPCA rules, you take the leash off your bigger, meaner dog." If only... I wish we could have our military be the most feared, merciless fighting force in history, and make them as elite and ruthless as the Spartans, then we wouldn't even have these cowards attack us in the first place.

[UberTong]

It is such a great film huh? I know a guy who spend 60 days out there and talked to him after the film and he said that place is no joke.
Like the general says in "The Siege": "You don't fight a junk yard dog with ASPCA rules, you take the leash off your bigger, meaner dog." If only... I wish we could have our military be the most feared, merciless fighting force in history, and make them as elite and ruthless as the Spartans, then we wouldn't even have these cowards attack us in the first place.

Great flick, I want to make every American watch it...maybe they won't be so loose with their hippie opinions. I couldn't agree more with you Ronin, the softness in this country and the political correctness in this country is the suicide of America.

[Byte Stryke]

Only when the enemy knows there is nowhere to hide and no protection will they surrender.


They will continue to hide with civilians because they know we will not fire on 40 Talis if it will put a single civilian in the paper. They are fighting their war in the press, and they are winning.