Ward Cleaver
Resident Expert
This is from Afghanistan, a few years ago.
A squad of "marines" is in their barracks...air conditioned barracks. Outside, about the length of a football field away, one Taliban fighter...one...is firing an occasional mortar shell.
Now usually, whenever a group of modern day U.S. "soldiers" hear a mortar, or even a single rifle shot, they will take cover and call on their radio for "air support."
Whereupon either an Apache helicopter or a fighter jet will come to the area and either drop a bomb on the location of the rifle shot, or strafe the area with an M230 Chain Gun.
Then, when the coast is clear, the "soldiers" come out from their cover and move forward.
That's the modus operandi of modern day "boots on the ground" (as they're called).
However, the group of "marines" in this barracks didn't have a radio with which to call for "air support," so they cry and cower in fear, as one of them pleads with his god for it to stop.
Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island and Army recruit training at Ft. Benning and other bases continues to be dumbed down and pussified to accommodate the present soft, pampered, spoiled generation of recruits...and these are the type of "soldiers" you end up with...
Regards,
-Ward
A squad of "marines" is in their barracks...air conditioned barracks. Outside, about the length of a football field away, one Taliban fighter...one...is firing an occasional mortar shell.
Now usually, whenever a group of modern day U.S. "soldiers" hear a mortar, or even a single rifle shot, they will take cover and call on their radio for "air support."
Whereupon either an Apache helicopter or a fighter jet will come to the area and either drop a bomb on the location of the rifle shot, or strafe the area with an M230 Chain Gun.
Then, when the coast is clear, the "soldiers" come out from their cover and move forward.
That's the modus operandi of modern day "boots on the ground" (as they're called).
However, the group of "marines" in this barracks didn't have a radio with which to call for "air support," so they cry and cower in fear, as one of them pleads with his god for it to stop.
Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island and Army recruit training at Ft. Benning and other bases continues to be dumbed down and pussified to accommodate the present soft, pampered, spoiled generation of recruits...and these are the type of "soldiers" you end up with...
Regards,
-Ward