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Why did the idiotic American Government put 20+ navy seals on one same copter?

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Braznor said:
This was not true until before Vietnam.

America truly saved the world during WW2.

Screw British, France and the Soviets in that war.

Of all, American morality shone through that time.

Pity this spirit was lost later.
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Nice. 🙄
 
He is right.... I say we withdraw all our troops from Afghanistan and let the Muslims focus their attention on India...
 
Um, it happens more often than you think. If it had been 20 normal Army guys, no one would give a shit - it'd be a minor blip on the news. Thanks for playing.
 
To get to the other side of the valley?

Joking aside, yea it was pretty tragic to lose that many of them all at once.
 
It was a QRF. This is the way things are done. Also Chinooks are the only choppers with the power to operate in many altitudes in Afghanistan.
 
Yes, unit of Rangers were tied down and Seals called in to help them.

I believe the Chinook was shot down after the firefight when Seals were leaving.
 
AyashiKaibutsu said:
We have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP (at least that's the one I think I see in deployment pictures).
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Interesting is that if we can believe the wiki entries, that the marauder was showcased first in Abu Dabi in 2007. It's big brother the matador as well.

The MRAP design competition ( I assume here that at that time no specified vehicles existed in the US) in the US also started in 2007. And now new design requests have been entered. I know everybody in the US wants US made material, but i get the impression that the paramount group from South Africa had at the time ready available experience how to build such armored vehicles. It does seem the consumer version of the marauder is 3 times the average price of a military version of the US MRAP. But i can assume if 10.000 at once can be bought, the price drops considerably. I can understand that there must always be some secrecy about military vehicles and the weak spots. Hence that most countries build their own military equipment to keep specs hidden.
But would it not have been better if marauder or matador type vehicles would have been bought instead of designing from the ground up ?

On a sidenote :
It is funny that a multinational company : BAE is doing a lot of manufacturing for the US these days. How much of the money flows back to the ( i assume international) share holders ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marauder_(vehicle)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_(mine_protected_vehicle)
 
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Braznor said:
This was not true until before Vietnam.

America truly saved the world during WW2.

Screw British, France and the Soviets in that war.

Of all, American morality shone through that time.

Pity this spirit was lost later.
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Ummmmm

African American segregation in the Army.
Japanese internment camps on the West Coast.
The turning away of ship loads of Jewish immigrants back to Europe where they got exterminated.
Giving pardons to certain members of the Japanese and German scientists who experimented on different ways to kill human beings for the research they attained.

Am I missing anything?
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
Ummmmm

African American segregation in the Army.
Japanese internment camps on the West Coast.
The turning away of ship loads of Jewish immigrants back to Europe where they got exterminated.
Giving pardons to certain members of the Japanese and German scientists who experimented on different ways to kill human beings for the research they attained.

Am I missing anything?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Though I know it's not popular to say that here.
 
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