Posted on 06/07/2014 5:52:51 PM PDT by Vendome
Walking through Target and picked up the movie "Lone Survivor".
Saw this twice at the theater and both times cried, right along with every other man.
A moving story about true brothers, who would not leave each other's side, rallied their collective strength and held each other as men, doing their level best to help the guy on the right and the guy on the left.
Sadly, only one man made it out, through shear determination and an indomitable spirit.
But, not before more good men went to rescue them, knowing they were not fully armed, not fully covered in the air but, possessed by a righteous mission to help their brothers, as those brothers would help, no matter how dire the consequences.
A story of men who would do anything to save a brother.
Take it all in bud.
It is worth it.
TR.
Freaking hurt and felt good at the same time.
Amazing men with indomitable spirit...
The SEAL's knew that there was a significant enemy presence in the village and they knew when they released the Afghans they would run to town and tell them of their position on the mountain.
So given that the mission had been compromised, why didn't the LT send a radio man to a higher peak to establish contact with their base so that their extraction could be arranged before they released the Afghans. For that matter, they could even have taken the Afghans to the extraction point and released them there.
From what I gathered about the OP it wasn’t certain, due to location and terrain, that simply moving would give them elevation and no obstruction (mountains).
If it were me I would have been comfortable taking them with me until comms could be established.
I would have let them go once my exfil was certain and I was minutes away from safety on a chopper.
But, they were in a conflict emotionally and morally. They knew there were some 200 men who would kill them if they could and stuck with 3 individuals who compromised their safety, location and the mission.
The choices were:
1. Let em go and make a run for a better position to egress safely. The risks we now know.
2. Tie em to trees and gain as much real estate as possible between them, to safely exfil.
They had a moral conflict with letting three people freeze to death or be eaten by wild animals.
3. They could kill them, save themselves and the mission but, that opens them up for Leavenworth.
They weighed all these options and made what was the best choice for them, that they felt comfortable with.
That is one of the elements that make this story so compelling.
Morality and the choices.
They chose to take a chance that these people would give them a chance to escape and also, as they were unarmed, this choice was fairer and emotionally something they would be comfortable with.
They gambled and it didn’t work out as they hoped.
They exemplify all that is American.
We’ll fight anyone but, not in an unfair fight. It’s unseemly to most of us, to engage in action when the other side will obviously lose.
I personally would been able to live with lashing them to trees and living to fight another day.
Tough choices but, it gives us insight into how our men think, and they are thinkers, in a situation where they have some time to consider possibilities.
Very different from the other side, whose only focus is killing and killing all the time.
They are broken as humans, while our men don’t feel compelled to kill anything that moves.
Send the radioman to a point at which he can make contact and arrange exfil and then either move the Afghans with me (to be released nearer the extraction point) OR release them before moving out (depending on the distance to the extraction point).
I am sure they had their reasons for letting the Afghans go once the mission was compromised...but it sure looks like a mistake where we sit.;-)
To make traveling with prisoners easier (and depending on the distance to extraction point), they might have tied up the old man and the tough guy and taken the kid who, when released, could have returned and untied them.
What does that have to do with anything? Id bet they were great men. Does’t make marky mark a great man by association.
He’s as liberal as they come.
>> What does that have to do with anything?
Considering the focus of the vanity, that’s a good question concerning your responses.
The vanity is about SEAL Team 10, not Wahlburg’s delinquencies.
“Ted” wasn’t funny at all. I was bored stupid by it. Seth MacFarlane is a one-trick pony who thinks pop culture references are jokes.
And you base that on personal experience with him? You are getting sucked in by the media you all claim to hate.
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