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12-27-2012, 11:49 PM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:3937 Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 81 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 35 Post(s)
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lol thats jokes, all you think of if you observe that is the cost it will be to get that casualty off or if you can just call in medevac...
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12-28-2012, 01:51 PM
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| Your Mothers Nightmare... Poster Rank:411 Male Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 2,856 Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Quoted: 1036 Post(s)
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And still America refuses to sign up the the Land Mine Treaty to ban these horrendous indiscriminate weapons. I defy anyone who has seen one of their own ripped up by these things to say they think they are a good and useful weapon. The sad truth of these things are the biggest victims are unarmed non-combatant civilians AND the ground forces of the very country that that lays them. The number of Allied servicemen and women that are still being maimed by these types of munitions dropped over Iraq and Afghanistan is shocking. One of my first experiences of landing in Kuwait in 1998 after the UN Inspectors where ejected from Iraq was being directed to drive off the rear of the aircraft in the wrong direction putting me in the middle of a minefield surrounded by cluster bombs dropped in there hundreds of thousands by US Forces all over Iraq and area's of Kuwait. Before I had been at the location more than 2 weeks the first casualties of our time there came in, first was a Bangladeshi Conscript into the Kuwaiti military who was "moderately" injured when he was sent to clear out a small one room building that he was to use as his accommodation and work place. These "moderate" injuries involved the loss of both hands and intestinal injuries after picking up partly dismantled cluster mines that a couple of US Armorers had been dismantling "for fun" to make little explosive "dust bombs" (they threw them in front of the vehicles creating a boom & throwing up a plume of sand) whilst out on patrol to "toughen up" the drivers and men. The two armorers and I think 3 maybe 4 of the others who had asked for and threw these bloody dangerous things around where RTU'd back to their home units after one set itself off in the rear of a Hummer due to go out on patrol at first it started a fire then a bigga a badda boom setting the whole camp on high alert as it was thought we where under attack until one of the disgruntled drivers who was sick of having the sadistic Squad Leaders throwing explosives at them was over heard saying it would hopefully stop the practice. It them came to light that the recent spate of eye injuries believed to have been caused by "mini devils" or little sand dust devils had probably been caused by these stupid idiots. Sadly until ALL the so called civilised Western countries sign up to the treaty to ban these horrendous life destroying and sadly rather ineffective (and almost impossible to clear up after the event) munitions there will continue to be civilians maimed and killed, military men of all sides and the innocents who are put in peril by others who will insist in thinking they can play around and master them! Finally, my last comment is this... where do you think the so called insurgents get the majority of their explosives for their IED's? Not from old military shells as we are told. But from collecting landmines and cluster bombs and bomblettes and either scavenging the "thing that makes it go boom" or keeping them in the original state and making them into a bloody huge anti personnel mine or a daisy chain of many IED's linked together sometime up to 50 yards long! Petition, write, e-mail your mayors and political leaders as only home based pressure will make the US sign up and get rid of these weapons. I have seen the results and to put it quite frankly they terrified me and all others who had to walk in areas we knew had been affected by the cluster bombs of operations of our own side in Op "Deny Flight" and "Deny Ground" |
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12-28-2012, 02:31 PM
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When asked how he got the nickname 'Peg-Leg', Pablo clammed up and seemed a bit offended.
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12-29-2012, 02:05 AM
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The second video looks like they are fidgeting with a piece of steak. Someone needs to get an empty ice cream container and walk 700 metres to find pieces of the foot ,put it together and glue it back on. |
