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To: Future Snake Eater

Sounds like more than two kills a day, every day, for more than 1,000 days. Is that possible? Didn’t he ever go on leave?


26 posted on 06/24/2013 5:39:18 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: Hootowl
If it was all in his Bradley during the invasion and if the Iraqis had put up more of a fight, then maybe. But what really kills the story is his "dabbling" in being a sniper. That makes absolutely no sense.

"Hey, sir, I know I'm a Bradley Commander, and I'm a senior NCO, maybe even a Platoon Sergeant, but I'd like to chill all that for a bit this deployment and take up sniping."

It doesn't happen.

Also, I was a Bradley crewmember for several years in my enlisted days, and I was in the Infantry for a decade. Who aside from snipers (real ones) and fighter pilots track their kills? When a Bradley destroys a vehicle, the BDA (battle damage assessment) sent up the chain describes the vehicles destroyed and, maybe, a guess as to how many enemy KIA.

28 posted on 06/24/2013 5:46:07 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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