Ok. I *think* you guys are jumping the gun. I’ll wait to watch the video. It looks like these guys were embedded with the unit and have video of an attack. I dont see that it says this camera crew had word of an attack and filmed the soldiers getting ambushed from a safe location. Sebastian Junger (author of the book “the perfect storm”) was part of the film crew. I think this could be really an interesting story. I say this too as somebody who dislikes the media, and I am in the National Guard and looking at gettig deployed late next year. BLESS YOU!
You didn't even see it yet, but are the first voice of reason in this thread so far! - post #29
here's a link to the film - you will see that your level-headed assessment is right on - (and anyone not afraid of the truth, can read my posts # 61, 62, 64 and 65)
http://www.setaf.army.mil/
BYW, the photog broke his foot during the mission but continued to walk on it for hours - until they made it to a village where he was able to get aboard a chopper and get to treatment - which required surgery -
A little off topic, but after watching just the first segment on the ABC site, my concern was that it seemed that their targets in the firefight were an awfully long distance for those short-barreled M4s.
I know the troops like the carbines for the urban stuff, but in this more wide open stuff, my personal opinion is they would be better off with longer barreled weapons.
JMO