To: speed_addiction
"While as far a good portrayal of proper military procedure it is a disaster"
I also find the show entertaining but very unrealistic. In the last episode, the squad (-) was trying to confirm that a person in a house was a terrorist spotter for an enemy mortar. They spent a lot of time wrestling with the morale dilemma of killing the suspect without conclusive proof. But, they never searched the house that the suspect was thought to be spotting from. Also, the whole mission was done at the direction of a quirky general who was obsessed with getting "American toilets" into the basecamp. The suggestion was that the general was risking his men's lives for toilets and, while not really political, seemed to be critical of operations there. All that being said, I have the show season-passed on my TEEVO.
16 posted on
08/24/2005 7:28:46 AM PDT by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: Airborne1986
Also, the whole mission was done at the direction of a quirky general who was obsessed with getting "American toilets" into the basecamp. The suggestion was that the general was risking his men's lives for toilets and, while not really political, seemed to be critical of operations there. All that being said, I have the show season-passed on my TEEVO.
Well I did have a Battallion Commander that would have
appeared to have been this way, in reality he was not. He would have had the greater mission (getting the convoy through safely) in mind, but would have obsessed in front of us over something trivial.
What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.
18 posted on
08/24/2005 9:53:59 AM PDT by
speed_addiction
( Somethings gnaw on a man worse'n dyin'!)
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