• Taliban ambushes Infantry patrol - Rambo Draws Fire for his Squad, is hit 4 times
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[QUOTE=thisispain;37828455]i think you missed the point of what i said. all videogames dehumanize conflict. they turn it into simple simulacrum with winstates where war has no real consequences. when i see a video like this it instantly becomes clear to me how dehumanized it really is. when he was between those rocks there was a strong possibility he could die. there was no dehumanizing element, and like i said the only real comparison i have is film and videogames because i've never ever been in a war. it's a sobering shock, and i wonder how much of an influence it has on culture.[/QUOTE] I guess video games, films and other media do constitute almost to a psychic numbing towards this stuff.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;37829524]you should simply stop posting. seriously stop following me around and bugging me. [editline]28th September 2012[/editline] in fact what the fuck was the point of that post in the first place? [editline]28th September 2012[/editline] tell me whatever boisterous bullshit, cause i already know you're simply taking the piss at the fact that i'm frowning upon armchair masters and in the same post state something that's common fucking knowledge. [editline]28th September 2012[/editline] i actually feel like a perfectly legitimized "piss off" is in order. piss off.[/QUOTE] lol what, this is the first time I have ever interacted with you since the receiver thread let's start with "armchair warfare specialists" what makes your opinion more qualified than that of others? because you can write words that profile people who think differently than you? yes, the guy has balls. I've broken enough bones to even reasonably understand what he probably felt like. But, uh, him being a badass... dude, you don't enlist in the military to be a badass. He isn't a badass. He wasn't trying to be. He knowingly put his life on the line when me and other people aren't convinced that was the best course of action. It's that simple really. You don't have to serve in the military to know that his actions were - almost recklessly - risky. He was within inches of his life to draw fire from his squad - and if his armor didn't hold up, his squad would still be pinned, a man down, out in the open. Yes, he has "brass balls." But absolutely nothing about his actions were truly badass. The fact he lived was a stroke of good luck, and I'm not saying he should be dead, because I'd never wish that on my worst enemy, but a different course of action could have led to much less injury. And yet I'm still confused as to what makes everyone an armchair warfare specialist and what doesn't make you one.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;37814930]It's generally the best strategy to move towards the ambush in the first place. It makes the most sense. The problem is that he was moving downhill which obviously limited his ability to move quickly.[/QUOTE] Moving downhill with no cover, firing blindly into a mountainside miles away, terribly slow mag changes, and eventually ducking behind a rock that covers a quarter of his body. He is the luckiest man in Afghanistan.
if I didn't know that he lived afterward I would have been sad after hearing him yell "I'm hit" while hiding behind that rock.
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