Last Survivor
Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 years, 11 months ago to Movies
I just saw a movie about the Navy Seals in Afghanistan titled Last Survivor. Go see if you have the stomach and then consider a donation to the Wounded Warriors Fund. Fucking Rules Of Engagement.
When I could I got out of the Navy, went to school, became an officer in the Army. Met people who wrote "rules of engagement". Saw they could lie better than anybody I've met in my life.
Glad your Dad made it home. Too many didn't for no good reason.
Thank you both for your service, and my apologies to both of you.
"We could not blow away everyplace we knew they were or there would not have been any civilians left."
As Commander in Chief, I would have found that an acceptable outcome. Not optimal, but acceptable.
It is a question that can only be answered when one is confronted with it, and the answer will come only after some pretty extreme soul-searching. It will be based on your morals, your beliefs, and will define your character forever.
It is easy to criticize or to lobby one way or the other. Much harder to have to make the decision. I give them credit for being in an untenable position and yet choosing to uphold the American principles of freedom even though it cost them their lives to do so.
Were I alone, I probably would let the non-combatant go.
If it means my life or the non-combatant, that's one thing. But if it means the life of one or more of my fellows...
I do know that, as CinC, if my boys are put in a position to make that decision, regardless of how they decide, I'll back them up to the hilt. Presidential pardons if necessary.
I also got a civilian briefing/presentation on Afghanistan by an Air Force Colonel who was stationed there. He said that another problem the forces face over there is that EVERYONE in a village knows everyone else and they are very clan-oriented. Even if there had been an interpreter, as soon as the civilians escaped they would have notified the village anyway.
I come into the Last Survivor post from DaveM49's comment in the recent comments list, and there are no comments visible... including the comment I posted asking why I couldn't see any comments... said comment is not visible here.
I are very confused...
Oh, wait... NOW I can see my WTF post...
They specifically take care of the families of wounded and fallen special operations forces. My production company (MAYDAYproductions.com) works directly with them. They have a 100% volunteer staff, giving them less than 2% admin costs so they really give away over 98% of what comes in. They are actively supported by USSOCOM Care Coalition.
-Tony May
They sense when "wrongness" is about them. Their eyes change. Gibran calls the eyes; "The windows to the soul". Haunting
Elan Journo's "Winning the Unwinnable War -
America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic
Totalitarianism".
Highy recommend it !
WTF is going on?
You do still have to have the option turned on in settings http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/account/... and of course you have to have an email address setup on your account for this to work.
" An immoral person (such as the Viet Cong and NVA, or any communist) will not bother to follow any ROE"
FIFY
Two sneak up on him, club and strangle him to death, and end up escaping successfully. Author Eric Williams received so many angry responses to the scene that in a revised version of the book, he removed it and claimed it was fictionalized.
The Church and the mercenary captains came up with The Laws of War, a code of warfare that limited the horror inflicted upon civilian populations, and minimized the expense (in terms of men and munitions lost) for the mercenary companies.
This lasted, to one degree or another, until the Confederate War. Since then, the applicability of the Laws of War decayed.
Asian, African and other cultures never went through this mercenary period, so they didn't develop the laws of war.
An example is the Japanese treatment of PoWs. Our gentle treatment derives from the mercenary code and that era. The Japanese had no such transformation, and therefore developed the belief that surrender was unbearable shame, and if you let yourself be captured, you had no "honor", you were less than an animal (and were thus treated so).
Honestly, your comment is disrespectful to those who have done everything to EARN the respect of us all.
However, our military *is* all voluntary, and I will argue against any association between this army and past armies made up of draftees, as "victims".
"You roll the dice, you take what you get", I personally think would be the best attitude for a survivor to have, in terms of coping with his injuries.
I have not read much from squareone. Has he/she made other comments like this? I hope this one is a misunderstanding or just a facetious comment.
Regards,
O.A.
Thank you Hiraghm.
O.A.