THIS^^^^ is truth.
WTF do we expect? This is basic war, only repeated thousands of times.
Our GWOT ROEs devolved to 3 males of fighting age in a group. That means every range day would deserve a drone strike. They don’t just hate us because they are Muslims.
For me, it's kind of amazing that two human beings would be that committed to killing each other.
Stanford experiment
I think he and his advisors decided against it due to the msm's continual/ongoing bullshit agenda that would have made him (Trump) look like a "conspiracy theorist". At least, that's what the msm would have portrayed him as.
Yeah true. It's crazy that people buy into this shit, I see so many Ukraine flags everywhere
Source? Because I was in Iraq 2005-06, 2008 and Afghanistan in 2010 and sure don't remember a ROE like that. Now we could call in CAS or whatever if we saw people walking around with RPG's, digging in roads (planting IED's), burning tires on roads (getting ready to dig), carrying or emplacing MTR's etc. And when I was at a brigade level for one deployment for my actual MOS (13D) we did doe a hell of a fire mission on a compound, but that was due to intel of a HVT there with little to no civ's on it.
I'm in the greater seattle area. We used to see a few here and there, but not many these days...........
I'd hate to have to try and hold that blood slippery knife with no guard in a knife fight. That makes the tendons in my fingers hurt just looking at it.
You cannot disengage at that point. Any wrong move can be fatal. You are either 100% committed or something gets cut that you do not want cut.
Its not a fighting knife , looks more like one of traditional general purpose knives , but many nothern knifes kinda follow similar patern
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I think that both would have preferred to not knife fight to the death. With that said, I agree with the post that it was a fight to the death at first meeting. A situation in which neither had a choice. A situation that I hope that I never get into. I did not watch the whole video. 2:08 was enough for me to know the whole story.
Now consider all the US/NATO veterans who watched their buddies get shot and blown up during the most recent 20 year stint and came back home to destroyed marriages and relationships with their kids. Just in time to watch the final loss before “we” walked away from Afghanistan.
Agreed. In fact, I haven't really found anything in any other posts here that I do actually disagree with.
Oh, I have. A lot. And, for a long time. That's one of the big reasons that I'm so disgusted by this shit show. Everyone should damned well know better by now. Hell, we/they should have known better back in GW1.
There was a lot of stabby stabby going on. I believe you could hear it too.
It's been a camp/utility/fighting/scalping knife from the time steel became knives. Granted, a Marine Kabar or Bowie knife may be better in a stand up fight but once on the ground that primitive or timeless Mora style knife is a killer as shown in the video.
So first up the sword bayonet was trying to make rifles into pikes to deter cavalry, secondly 9 inches is getting to long for any type of stabbing knife, Fairbairn-Sykes commando dagger is a more recent iteration of what people have been using for thousands of years and top out at ~7 inches. If you don’t plan on heavy clothing than 4” is adequate but you would not want to go shorter.
