think tat was Sgt. First Class Paul Howe..u got to respect this dude here man..Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Of course, need I mention after the battle one of the operatives actually went into the enemy zone for three days and three nights to recover the bodies of his comrades, and he did it. Now, 1 guy against a hostile city. I wonder what that reflects on his rationality.
im disappointed..obviously if u want to argue on this issue..u shld know that the weapon they carry are the M14(M21) n CAR-15..Originally posted by storywolf:Sorry to disappoint you, but I did read the "novel" of the black hawk down when it was first published, but I perfer not to memorized each page by heart like you do.
Could someone explain the mystery, that with all the good facts provide by StoryNathan and Viper52, that M4 with 5.56 armour pirecing round are totally in effective again human target. And here we are still talking about it is right to send 2 guys, one with a M21 and a M4 ( incorrect combination of rifle/round = useless gun, thanks viper52 for his arguement on that) on the ground.
Does that ring a bell that something is very wrong with still thinking it is right to send them in, when you gurus already knows you are sending in one person with effective weapon M21, and another with a weapon M4 with a shit ammo. Obviously why memorized the book when you don't learn the mistakes from it ?
"A man tried to climb over the wall and Durant shot him. Another came crawling from around the corner with a weapon and Durant shot him."n btw the Rangers are using M16s..wats the different between M16s, CAR15 n M4?
i went thru the book again n again..it is CAR-15 not M4..if u doubt me..u doubt the book..because i have the book now with me..read chapter 18..where Shughart handed Durant Gordon CAR-15..not M4..Originally posted by storywolf:HI Nathan,
Sorry you are the one that got it wrong this time ! One is M21, the other is a not a car-15. Most US ops now use the short version of M162 variants which is call M4, it may look like a car-15 but it is not.
Ok let presume that US spec ops are so poor that they use the old car-15(still a M16 variant). "Not sure the car-15 was using(not sure if Ap anot).... ?" Come on give me a break, one moment viper52 have clearly stated the facts and correcting me on a few posting that all spec ops is issued with AP 5.56 and telling me to read the book !!! and here you are not sure ? You should know ! Go read Viper52 posting, better still I will paste it below for you.
Below 2 are what Viper52 say !!!
"Shugart was known to be armed with an M14 semi-automatic rifle. Reading through the book, it is doubtful if M16 variants would be more useful in their situation, as there were much dissatisfaction with the ammo used in the battle, since it was designed to defeat body armour and the mobs didn't use any, there were several occasions when the Rangers and Deltas found that their 5.56s went right through without doing much damage and each target required several rounds before being stopped for good. Hardly something you'd want to in the snipers' position."
"The book Black Hawk down had several references to how several rounds were needed to stop each Somali. And also several references to how targets hit by a round continued running or picked themselves up under their own steam. More tellingly, at least one veteran of Mogadishu interviewed by Mark Bowden recalled how he felt stupid for mocking Randy Shugart for carrying the antique rifle before the mission, and wishing he had the M-14 and its 7.62mm stopping power after seeing the Somalis he had hit with the 5.56mm pick themselves up or simply continue running."
i must admit..its my bad on not knowing wat rounds the CAR15 use..Originally posted by storywolf:Hi Nathan,
If you don't even know what the ammos the guys are carrying whether they are suitable for anti-personnal, how it justify to say it is correct to send them in ? The moment you say you don't know, what rounds, you already clearly stated that you are not in a position to jusify their firepower, to do the job effectively !
once again u are right..but it was slug out in Gary post also..so pls stop repeating wat he wana say...give me something new..Originally posted by storywolf:Nathan,
"u realize u only zoom in on the firepower...but u never put in place the situation the ability n mindset of the 2 snipers.. "
Ok then let talk about the special abilities! Snipers and Sp Ops delta force are still humans. They may react faster, fitter, shoot better, but still human and can be kill with just one lucky or well aim rounds. Don't give me the matrix stuff, that they can dodge bullets !
Let talk about mindset, so they are determined people. So there are obvious as just as determined folks in the mobs that want to kill them. Determination is not a lucky charm agains bullets.
Let talk about the Situation, the US did not know what hit them when things started, With situation in the lost and reported mobs, the situation is in favour of the mobs, they are harden folks who live there, day and night, know the streets. And been fighting endless street wars with other gangs and gain valuable knowledge ( which is something, the US underestimated). Large mob with AK 47s & some RPGs, does not need to take a math genius, to calculate the fight was over before it began. Yep so the M21 is a great weapon you argued can do take down a person, the other side will take a RPG to compare with it, they are still outgunned.
Yes the delta folks are great, but pls give more credits to the those on the opposite sides, they are living in hell most of their live, and to be survive there, those are folks are very special also.
no storywolfOriginally posted by storywolf:Well the argument will have no end right ? There is totally no right or wrong. I surrender !!! Haha good fight viper52, nathan and Gary.
I am glad to see there is a lot of hot blood folks here who been giving great postings on the important of saving someone regardless of cost of their lifes.
How about instead, we write endless of useless posting. Let all forget about our differences, and change it to something useful and meaningful.
Great now that I got everyone hot up, with postings now come the real purpose. The blood bank is running short of blood with the recent incidents and need our help. Let get the senior members to organize a gathering for blood donation, I am sure asking for a little blood from all the brave caring and wonderful folks regardless of which view point is very little to ask for, think of the lives you will save.
Any senior member willing to help ? I promise after that I be a good soldier and not try to be a pain in ass in my posting.
Thank you
Your friendly
Storywolf
hey i dun mind at all...never donate my blood before lehOriginally posted by storywolf:Well the argument will have no end right ? There is totally no right or wrong. I surrender !!! Haha good fight viper52, nathan and Gary.
I am glad to see there is a lot of hot blood folks here who been giving great postings on the important of saving someone regardless of cost of their lifes.
How about instead, we write endless of useless posting. Let all forget about our differences, and change it to something useful and meaningful.
Great now that I got everyone hot up, with postings now come the real purpose. The blood bank is running short of blood with the recent incidents and need our help. Let get the senior members to organize a gathering for blood donation, I am sure asking for a little blood from all the brave caring and wonderful folks regardless of which view point is very little to ask for, think of the lives you will save.
Any senior member willing to help ? I promise after that I be a good soldier and not try to be a pain in ass in my posting.
Thank you
Your friendly
Storywolf
"This was not a hopeless mission. One or two properly armed, well-trained soldiers could hold off an undisciplined enemy indefinitely. Shughart and Gordon were experts at killing and staying alive. They were career soldiers trained to get hard, ugly things done.""Hold off" in the quote here does NOT mean "shoot em all to pieces". It means "keep yourselves and the pilot alive".
So ST, from your post , I believe you are saying that 2 snipers cannot hold the perimeter against a large mob of with automatic weapons and RPG, right? I think we certainly agree on this point.Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Gary is indeed the one who is caught up with emotionism here.
He can't get it out of his mind that the D-boys didn't go down there to fight 100+ skinnies or establish a perimeter. They were going down there to get the aircrew. Unlike Gary, who is mad enough to dream up such ideas, professional D-boys avoid firefightrs unless they really have to. Gary just can't get it out of his head that they weren't going in on a sucide mission. The outcome nevertheless.
Unfortunately, things did not turn out quite that way for them, and one thing that Gary has failed to prove, despite his exausive attempts to fit a square peg into a round hole, was that the D-operatives chose their actions based on emotionism and irrationality.
What's obvious is that they weren't going in there to fight sammies off (even the most irrational would know they didn't stand a chance), they were going in to get the crew otta there, and probably to some safe area they could hold out for a while until help arrived. It was a dangerous undertaking that went wrong. Could their plan had worked? Certainly, but it was risky and could go wrong, and it did.
How would they be considered irrational? If they decided that they could acomplish their mission by fighting off the mob on their own, and that was their main action plan. Which is nuts and certainly wasn't in their decks. They were forced to fight the mob, they certainly didn't camp out and wait for the mob to come to them while they sniped away.
Of course, need I mention after the battle one of the operatives actually went into the enemy zone for three days and three nights to recover the bodies of his comrades, and he did it. Now, 1 guy against a hostile city. I wonder what that reflects on his rationality.
The best I can determine is that Gary suffers from a bad case of hollywood logic, where the only solution he sees to the problem is by force and action alone. While they ended up using up all their ammo and having to fight to the finish. One wonders if that was their actual intention or plan when they went in. And if that wasn't their intention, their undertaking certainly wasn't irrational, or emotional. It was a calculated risk that went wrong.
If Gary's logic is to be followed, every soldier who died when the odds were against him is irrational or emotional.
Let me say talk abt the other incident where there was one soldier was "left to die".Originally posted by NathanG5:dear storywolf
u make it sound like there is no purpose of sending in the delta snipers at all..
have u read the other post between me n Gary...
there is a reason y the delta was send in..
but before that..answer the question i post to u n Gary..
n if your answer is leaving Durant to die is the right thing..hope u will never be my commanders..
his name n rank is Cpl Jamie Smith..wat a joke..is that the only thing u can come up with?Originally posted by gary1910:Let me say talk abt the other incident where there was one soldier was "left to die".
Cpl Smith was fatally injured becos of a ruptured artery, the medic immediately ask for immediate medical evac, the request gone thru the chain of command and was rejected becos the area was still hot and they could not risk another "bird" with a crew of 3-4.
The commanders are no doctors therefore they would have to believe the medic that he was critically injured and need medical attention with proper equipment otherwise he would have died!!!!
Now here was one life, and risks I believe was even lower than what the two snipers faced and yet they rejected them!?!
Why??
The same reason I have given earliar , if the risk to take is too high where more soldiers will be killed rather saving more lives than it should not be taken!!!
You are naive to think that no one ever left to die, it was just that they were never publicised and became statistics, the case is one example, and nobody will fault the commander for this decision, that is the reality of war thru out history, I believe there are many cases of such incident, just that you and I will never know becos they were never publicised in books or movies.
You guys are talking abt saving even one life no matter what the odds, that is not rational, this has happened in the past and will continue so in the future , that is the reality!!!!
If you guys can't accept that view, that is your preogative!!!
Continue agrue at this point , well quite pointless, as it is subjective.