Fuckin kills me when I see them waste so much damn ammo on victory and blind fire.
[QUOTE=The Rifleman;52390634]Fuckin kills me when I see them waste so much damn ammo on victory and blind fire.[/QUOTE]
Also, those two guys who may have been killed by friendly fire. The regular Iraqi army continues to be kind of a mess, but at least they were brave enough to charge in
It's always weird to see soldiers with modern looking gear just firing blindly and wasting grenades and resources. I'd think if I was in that situation I'd save ever thing I can because when I need it and don't have it I'll be fucked.
[QUOTE=JDER14;52391949]It's always weird to see soldiers with modern looking gear just firing blindly and wasting grenades and resources. I'd think if I was in that situation I'd save ever thing I can because when I need it and don't have it I'll be fucked.[/QUOTE]
Poor training I would assume.
Damn, the broken leg on one of the fatalities at the end.
Man I would be shitting myself as a journalist in the middle of suburban warfare. You could just be walking around what you assume is controlled territory and then instantly domed before seeing the just one ISIS goat fucker hiding in a decrepit building near by. People who do this have some serious nerves of steel.
[QUOTE=Elstumpo;52392068]Poor training I would assume.[/QUOTE]
they're tankers who were probably rushed into service, but you'd think having months of combat experience would change things
makes me wonder if the new iraqi army outside of commando/operator units would end up crumbling to dust again, like they did when ISIS first started seizing territory
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NYT put up a video that follows the Emergency Response Brigade (Federal Police)
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000004978256/major-sajjad-the-battle-for-mosul.html[/URL]
[QUOTE=StrykerE;52394266][media]https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/877743770934026240[/media]
Interesting thread on the Iraqi Special Operations Forces/Counter Terrorism Service's tactics
Also, NYT put up a video that follows the Emergency Response Brigade (Federal Police)
[url]https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000004978256/major-sajjad-the-battle-for-mosul.html[/url][/QUOTE]
He's good at Ammunition but not much else, Guess what I used to follow him.
He's the one that alerted the Berkley Assault Bikelock attack.
He's the one that told me that Trump has the leaks under control and using them. The Solar Panel wall revealed showed me that wasn't the case. He also Told me that Trump has blackmail against the whole entire democratic party that is probably going to be revealed in 2018 (It is related to the NSA spying scandal)
He also seems to think Trump is a strategic Genious and is waging a massive deception campaign.
And He is a massive kook apparently.
[QUOTE]Pretty Damn Dumb---and arrogant about it too, at least judging from this evisceration of the noted neocon ideologue, former Bush speechwriter and recently hired Senior Editor at the Atlantic by Ali Gharib on LobeLog.com. Dumb as much for his long distance Twitter allegations that a New York Times photographer faked shots of civilian carnage in a Gaza hospital as dumb for the Twitter ‘friend” he said brought the allegedly doctored photos to his attention before Frum made the charges. This "friend" in fact is a rather “obscure” blogger named Thomas Wictor who Gharib says refers to himself as “a failed music journalist,” and a “a failed novelist” as well as “a failed everything.”
As Gharib writes, Frum’s buddy Wictor is clearly not all there, admitting, right on his website bio page, to "post-traumatic stress disorder with secondary psychotic features, as well as the ‘brain fog’ caused by Meniere’s disease,” all of which foster memory lapses and dissociation. In fact, in one of his posts, Frum’s friend put up a photo of a cat he said “dematerialized” right in front of him. I suspect that had Frum actually read all this before launching his professional slander against Sergey Ponomarev, the AP veteran and Times photo contributor in question, it might have given even a pro-Israel ideologue like him pause. Although I wouldn't say for sure unless I had actually done some reporting beforehand and asked Frum himself, as journalists are supposed to do. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;52395049]He's good at Ammunition but not much else, Guess what I used to follow him.
He's the one that alerted the Berkley Assault Bikelock attack.
He's the one that told me that Trump has the leaks under control and using them. The Solar Panel wall revealed showed me that wasn't the case. He also Told me that Trump has blackmail against the whole entire democratic party that is probably going to be revealed in 2018 (It is related to the NSA spying scandal)
He also seems to think Trump is a strategic Genious and is waging a massive deception campaign.
And He is a massive kook apparently.[/QUOTE]
Oh, that's unfortunate. I didn't know too much about him.
The video should give you idea of what fighting in the Old City is like though. The streets are incredibly cramped and it looks like attacks could come from anywhere. No wonder why it's taking so long to clear out this last stretch.
[video=youtube;jk77Lzh469M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk77Lzh469M[/video]
Excellent to see progress being made, by Iraqi forces no less.
Clearly the use of airstrikes and artillery is being put to good use.
[media]https://youtu.be/rrBbJSzbsmo[/media]
Mosul is a type of hell at the moment that I think even the devil would not feel comfy in.
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