A large portion of seal team six wiped out in crash.

goose2005

Geekness1234 wrote: »

This just prove how vulnerable helicopters are to virtually all types of AA.Complete mystery to me while they were all travelling together,nearly 40 men.They should have split up into four Black Hawks.

Am I the only one who imagined the chopper splitting up into four Hawks and later recombining, a la Megazord?

Arnold Layne

Geekness1234 wrote: »

Keep your jokes to yourselves,those SEALs did more in one week then you could ever hope to do in your lives.

So true.

I would never hope to shoot armed or otherwise terrorists/civilians.

I would rather have a steady job and raise a family, no matter how bad the current economic situation is.

But thats just me! :rolleyes:

Saila

is it a bird?, is it a plane?

no its a helicopter of flying seals! :eek:

PK2008

Bin Ladens dead????

Saila

Geekness1234 wrote: »

Keep your jokes to yourselves,those SEALs did more in one week then you could ever hope to do in your lives.

yes because everyone wants to die for pointless causes :rolleyes:

mickydoomsux

Arnold Layne wrote: »

So true.

I would never hope to shoot armed or otherwise terrorists/civilians.

I would rather have a steady job and raise a family, no matter how bad the current economic situation is.

But thats just me! :rolleyes:

Ugh, you odious little arsehole.

Plazaman

PK2008 wrote: »

Bin Ladens dead????

Jim Leyden??? Fúck he owed me money.

Saila

PK2008 wrote: »

Bin Ladens dead????

yes he's buried at seals

ectoraige

Saila wrote: »

yes he's buried at seals

Does Heidi Klum know about this?

mackg

PK2008 wrote: »

Bin Ladens dead????

Bin ladens bin lade to rest

Geekness1234

Last time I checked fighting to eradicate terrorism isn't really a pointless cause.
Or is it just you that when out a group of men kill 2000+ civilians it is suddenly a pointless cause to respond.
Shut the f### up Saila.
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Fremen

Kepti wrote: »

More what exactly?

More babykilling.

Arnold Layne

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Ugh, you odious little arsehole.

Apologies if eradicating life as opposed to creating it is your thing. Turd!

How many missions have you completed, nop doubt on the Xbox or PS3?

Fremen

Geekness1234 wrote: »

Last time I checked fighting to eradicate terrorism isn't really a pointless cause.
Or is it just you that when out a group of men kill 2000+ civilians it is suddenly a pointless cause to respond.
Shut the f### up Saila.

An informed response indeed. Did you pause to consider civilians killed by US forces when they invaded Afghanistan? You're looking at 12,000 at a very conservative estimate. Did you consider that the families of those 12,000 people will be radicalised against the US?

"Eradicate" terrorism my eye.

Kepti

Geekness1234 wrote: »

Last time I checked fighting to eradicate terrorism isn't really a pointless cause.
Or is it just you that when out a group of men kill 2000+ civilians it is suddenly a pointless cause to respond.
Shut the f### up Saila.
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Fighting two incredibly expensive and protracted wars in foreign countries to prevent terrorism isn't just pointless, it's counter-productive.

davetherave

FFS how come a bereavement thread to a crackhead junkie gets more respect than this. :mad:
Regardless of what your stance is regarding the war on terror, at the end of the day there are 38 families that don't have a son or a brother or a husband or a dad anymore.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much from AH??


Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam.

mickydoomsux

davetherave wrote: »

FFS how come a bereavement thread to a crackhead junkie gets more respect than this. :mad:
Regardless of what your stance is regarding the war on terror, at the end of the day there are 38 families that don't have a son or a brother or a husband or a dad anymore.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much from AH??


Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam.

Didn't you get the smarmy internet cunt memo?

The US are the bad guys now.

Dyr

davetherave wrote: »

FFS how come a bereavement thread to a crackhead junkie gets more respect than this. :mad:
Regardless of what your stance is regarding the war on terror, at the end of the day there are 38 families that don't have a son or a brother or a husband or a dad anymore.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much from AH??


Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam.

Lots of people seem to die in afghanistan and pakistan these days, I don't think about them much and I doubt you do either.


Maybe if you're someone who read too many tom clancy novels you might feel differently

Kepti

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Didn't you get the smarmy internet cunt memo?

The US are the bad guys now.

The world can't be easily be divided up into "good guys" and "bad guys". If you can provide an argument to justify the current wars, I'd like to hear it.

Fremen

davetherave wrote: »

FFS how come a bereavement thread to a crackhead junkie gets more respect than this. :mad:

US foreign policy works by carrot and stick. The carrot is international aid. These guys are the stick. I think US foreign policy is cynical and self-serving, so I don't have much respect for their military.

Nodin

Thirty US troops, said to be mostly special forces, have been killed, reportedly when a Taliban rocket downed their helicopter in east Afghanistan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14430735

Chuck Stone

Losing the peace in Afghanistan is a disaster for America and the west in general.

It's only a matter of time before the troops pull out and blame the Afghanis for the whole thing.

Talk about a half assed job.

Dyr

Fremen wrote: »

US foreign policy works by carrot and stick. The carrot is international aid. These guys are the stick. I think US foreign policy is cynical and self-serving, so I don't have much respect for their military.

Most countries foreign policies are cynical and self serving though

Killer Wench

My thoughts and prayers out to the family members of the fallen and the members of the team who still live.

I am not hopeful that we will now be able to withdraw on the timeline that was being established. If anything, I expect that this episode will embolden the AQ/Taliban as killing members of TEAM 6 (the team that killed their motivational leader) proves to them and members of the world that they are capable of re-organization and retaliation. People thought the head had been chopped off, but this just proves that sentiment wrong. If anything, I expect the next few months to have an escalation of violence.

Now, on to the conspiracy.

A few days ago, there was an American news story outing the identity of the dog used on the OBL mission. At the time, I was thinking that the American media was dead-set on providing as much information on the team members as they could get ahold of and I was expecting to eventually read a story identifying the key players involved in the raid. So, a part of me wonders... a small part... if this event was an attempt to push those team members underground so that they no longer were a risk to the clandestine operation of the Special Operations Command.

Jesus Wept

RMD wrote: »

SEAL actually stands for SEa Air Land, they love a bit of flying.

Pretty stupid, should be Sal obviously.

Geekness1234

This thread is ridiculous,there are 38 grieving families and all you can do is argue about foreign policy and how SEAL should be SAL.

Kepti

Killer Wench wrote: »

A few days ago, there was an American news story outing the identity of the dog used on the OBL mission. At the time, I was thinking that the American media was dead-set on providing as much information on the team members as they could get ahold of and I was expecting to eventually read a story identifying the key players involved in the raid. So, a part of me wonders... a small part... if this event was an attempt to push those team members underground so that they no longer were a risk to the clandestine operation of the Special Operations Command.

If you could find out what part of you thought that up, and then removed it, you'd be a lot better off. There's nothing here to suggest a conspiracy, or anything untoward. Why do you feel the need to make one up?

D1stant

Are Team SEAL 7 OK?

Killer Wench

Kepti wrote: »

If you could find out what part of you thought that up, and then removed it, you'd be a lot better off. There's nothing here to suggest a conspiracy, or anything untoward. Why do you feel the need to make one up?

Being that I am American, and I know of examples when the government and elected officials have misled the public on controversial issues before, I don't think it is entirely outside the realm of possibility. Is it likely that this is a manufactured news story? Highly unlikely.

But if you need an example, google "Tuskegee Experiment".

Saila

Geekness1234 wrote: »

This thread is ridiculous,there are 38 grieving families and all you can do is argue about foreign policy and how SEAL should be SAL.

agreed, RIP.... but it should be SAL. or maybe SAILA Sea Air In Landrover and Artillery