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Offline Wes14

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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2007, 01:25:53 AM »
lowrider,Boing!:lol
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2007, 03:32:11 AM »
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Originally posted by cpxxx

I have to say they were really unlucky to beach just at that point. But it makes for a funny video.


The idea is that you scout out the beach first: that's one of the reasons the SBS exist.

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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2007, 08:27:37 AM »
and also

4 idiots

around the third idiot their is some cussing (2 swears) so its kinda bordering on that rule limit but ill show it:cool:
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2007, 09:32:04 AM »
I would have court martialed every one of those marines had they been in my command, and I would have imprisoned the skipper of the landing craft for criminal incompetence.  

Every single one of those men would have been slaughtered on the beach had this landing been for real.  In real combat, soldiers react exactly the way they've been trained.   However, soldiers are not often called upon to use "floundering" skills during combat, thus rendering all of them a drag on unit effectiveness.  That costs lives.

Yes, this video is old, but to this day, there are 7 combat boots still in the muck on that beach - boots that could have helped us be victorious in Iraq - but no.  They had to pick a clam bed to land on.
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