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Topic: US Fires on Iraqi's (Associated Press)http://www.military.com/NewsContent?file=FL_fire_042903 Quote:
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This concept is almost the exact same as shown in the fictional movie Rules Of Engagment, in which marines fire at a crowd in Yeman after taking sniper fire. It' alwasy a difficult situation I would assume, and I do agree the commander in this situation did do the right thing, its just, when dealing in the arab world, is anything you do the right thing?
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Did not see much of the Syrians, my battalion was stationed in the ICA (Israeli Controlled Area). So we saw mostly Lebanese and Israelis there. |
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I'm coming in kind of late on this one, but i feel very strongly on this; all Americans are criminals.
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Just kidding ![]() On the original issue, I think that, if anything, our ROE are too light, what we need to do for riot control over there is use armor like the Israelis do (or at least like the news makes it look like they do, you'd probably know more about that, Redleg), then they can throw all the damn rocks (or even 7.62 rounds) that they want, just get it out of their systems. And just have sweeper crews of mechanized infantry come through and anyone in the crowd with a rifle goes to prison or dies in place. I wonder why nobody takes my advice, it's great stuff haha.[/quote] |
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Lastly, its a dangerous proposition to be running around as mechanized infantry in urban areas, regardless of what many may say. I know for a fact, many of the Marine Amphibious vehicles we use are not immune at all the RPGs. The problem with going in with M1A1s is that there too much a symbol of American power, like the Israeli Merkava (Spelling?), and would hurt our public image over there too much. And by no means would I order a line of infantry into an Arab urban area, we even saw this in Black Hawk down with our Rangers and special forces, just imagine what they would do to young regular infantry soldiers. I’ve got to stick to my gut on this one, and go with the old PYOPS phrase; "Capture their minds and the hearts and souls will follow" |
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Yeah, I wasn't really serious, we do need to change our ROE's tomake them a bit harsher, but in generl it's a good thing I'm not in charge of doing it, I'm not the most open-minded or understanding of people, and when I see them cheering in the streets when our people die, I kind of flip out. Basically it's a damn good thing there are more levelheaded people than myself in command.
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