What the H..l is going on :?: :?: :?: :?:
I do really hope that this is not right.
But sadly this seems to have become the reallity in several countries today.. :?
I think it may be the increased focus on peace keeping missions that is to "blame" for this.
"Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it"
- Dag Hammarskjöld,
the second
Secretary-General of the United Nations
The soldiers is used more and more as policemen and humanitarian workers abroad, and I think it's good thing for the "regular soldier" to have a more "humane" attitude when facing situations/missions like this..
Emptying your entire clip into a crowd of women and children is not good procedure....
But special operations soldier is a complete different situation.
I don't think the Norwegian SOF's has had any incidents like this (yet!?), they are still extremelly professional units.
But it's a very closed and "secret" community, and not many outside the SOF community knows much about them.
And I think that's a very good thing.
Read about the Norwegian Special Forces here:
http://www.mil.no/languages/english/start/article.jhtml?sourceID=161791&source=ftd
We have seen too many examples where media has f...ed up good units, by giving them bad media coverage..