[speed_addiction]

My question is, would anyone want to go into battle with the two women that were depicted in that show - they couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. How did they get through boot camp? lol

I have a daughter who was injured in a grenade attack in Iraq last year. A few weeks before that, she was part of an MP escort for a supply convoy. A fuel truck got hit and an MP Hummer was engulfed by the burning fuel. She and other soldiers braved enemy fire to get to it. She dragged one of the injured MPs to cover, went back and provided cover fire for the soldiers getting the other MP to safety. She suffered burns to her face and hands reaching into a flaming vehicle to rescue these men.

Needless to say, she was very disappointed by the portrayal of our women soldiers by this show.

I served in the Army six years, most of it with 3rd Ranger Battalion. I kept asking myself, "What the hell Army is this supposed to be?" This show could not have been any worse or left leaning if it had been written by Howard Dean and the DNC.


With Howard Dean the dems have formally graduated from "disarray" to "debacle", with "irretrievable disaster" just around the corner.

[Skeeve14]

She sounds like a great daughter and lives the 'creed'.

RLTW

[xkaydet65]

My thanks for the service of you and your daughter. I do have a question a guy with your experience can answer. When I watched the show I was surprised about the lack of clarity in the orders the squad leader gave to his troops and in his radio procedure with his platoon leader. The sqaud leader seemed to exert no real control over the squad beyond telling them they'd screw up and get killed. The scene did not compare with the depiction of the Rangers in Blackhawk Down, who while excited and under fire never lost control and kept their commands and directions on point.Are my observations accurate. Also in the scene where the squad advances to fifty meters it seemed to me that the interval was much too small. It looked like a one meter interval when I would have thought, from my ROTC days that a five meter interval would be more appropriate>

I may be picky but if these are inaccurate depictions then it's easier to criticize the motives of Bocho and the writers.