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Originally posted by badnarik@Nov 22 2004, 03:31 AM
timothy mcveigh was not a marine. he was in the army.
i spent 6 years on active duty in the marines. marines are just a cross section of society. there are smart ones, and there are idiots.
how many times do you let the enemy fake injuries or booby trap bodies before you learn to kill them instead? from what i saw, these injured combatants were not yet secured. but then again i wasnt there.
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Your right about Mcveigh but it really dosen't matter much, his training had nothing to really do with the results of Oklahoma, he was infrantry not demolitions, and his raining didn't put the concepts into his mind that the ATF and the government were enemies that needed to be destroyed, that was in his head already. the army didn't teach him how to jury rig a truck full of diesel and fertilizer either.
I agree with you on the cross section comment, I met a lot of guys in my unit that weren't the best and the brightest, of course I created the upper part of that whole curve
I've been stating for the last little while that the environment over there dosen't let you really trust the enemy anymore, why risk your life with an enemy that booby traps his body or the body of his fellow troops, why trust an enemy that choses to wave the white flag of surrender, then opens fire when you approach to process.
Warfare has changed a great deal since the closing days of WWII, we're fighting a war against an unconventional enemy with little or no boundries, and little or no respect for the opponent. In WWII we hated the Germans, but my grandfather and great uncles had respect for them (Not the SS bas**rds but the army), when your fighting an unconventional enemy who will do anything to kill you, why take a chance unless your absolutely sure?