Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
I like the show. But I didn't get the whole thing behind this episode.
1. Why did she sleep with him? What papers?
2. Who cares if one terrorist prisoner blows up the rest of the terrorist prisoners? It makes guarding a lot easier.
I watch the show. I haven't been to Iraq
yet, but I probably will go at some point. Thankfully, I'll be going as a computer jockey, not as an MP.
Anyway, yeah, I'd say a lot of this stuff is a stretch. Not saying that the situations presented didn't happen in some form or another, but to happen to one group of privates and a Staff Sergeant SL who's got a Ranger tab? Yeah, that's a stretch.
As far as the females balling up and crying, hell, I've spoken with plenty of soldiers who have been there and back (some up to three times now) and they say it happens, male or female. More often than not they say it's the loud mouth punks who talk hard $hit and say they're gonna kill everything that walks who are the pussies when the bullets start flying.
The SL on the show reminds me a lot of my brother, hard nosed, no bull$hit guy. He said he had quite a few guys who just couldn't hack it. They trained tough and knew their stuff, but when it came time to execute and death was imminent, they froze in fear. My brother carried
this guy on his shoulders to the rear area for MEDEVAC. He died in transport. There was a picture of his last moments published in the Army Times that caused a lot of controversy at the time as it was early in the war.
Anyway, yeah, the show serves a purpose in some form or fashion. If for one second, just one second in time the viewer can put themselves in the shoes of an 18-year old kid for just one moment, the show has done something remarkable. I watched a History Channel show on the Normandy invasion last night and a Frenchmen who was 12 when it all happened broke down on camera recalling seeing a farm field full of wounded Americans and remarked how sad it was that a mother saw her son off to war, never to see him again. These soldiers see this every day. It sickens me to think that certain people around here would say things like, "I support the troops, but not the war..." and other rhetorical bull$hit like that when they haven't even begun the suffer for this nation or anyone else's freedom for that matter. In any case, that's P&N stuff now and I'll leave that alone.
The show is alright, not the best, but it does have a purpose for those that don't know what modern warfare is like.
