New 'game' lets players massacre civilians
POSTED BY: piratenews
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Coela - you've no idea how heartening to hear that from a modern grunt truly is to me, too damn many of em are hoo-rah rocketjocks full of hateful arrogance who seem to think they're on a modern crusade, and it's *damned* frustrating to wind up eating local hostility left in their wake when they're finally rotated somewhere else.
Of course, we had em in my day too but you don't get so much of that in second line support units.
I was 76X, specializing in runs where convoy or airdrop was suicidal or would reveal a units position, old school cold-war eastern bloc was the gig we trained for, and while a deuce full of rations isn't a small thing when you're standing next to it - in a combat theatre it's a needle in a haystack, especially if it's got a shielded ignition and no radio (this was back when Kolchuga was a considered a serious threat) - but that raised the problem of needing someone capable of longterm ops without needing their little hand held 24-7 by command.
And being that said independent thought gets trained out of em (half of spec-ops training is tryin to put it back, lol!) and it would be a total waste to drop a job like that on SpecFors, they had to find someone otherwise unsuitable for military service who had a mind and will of their own, and was content to operate alone with no escort to minimize risk and loss, you get the idea.
Mind you, they proposed this particular assignment to me whilst I was in the brig for insubordination (I took *issue* with a Sgt sexually harrassing a female E-2, hard.) so it was very much a waste-not, want-not effort on behalf of my CO, who pretty much *had* to do something before I really did choke one of his subordinates to death - I was fool enough not to ask WHY they were fronting such a big bonus to be assigned to that unit...
But yanno, I took pride in making damn sure every troop I was responsible had decent food, and enough of it, since any meal might be their last, and the whole KBR issue grinds my gears so terribly hard for that very reason, there's just no excuse for it.
And yes, Pashtuns are pretty cool folk if you manage to get along with em, we have a very large community of them up here in Dearborn, MI - who've recently been pissed off over some local stupidity, but we're workin on settling that up.
Anyhows, try not to get your ass shot off, eh ?
I might not be too keen on command and it's reasons, but that's nothin YOU have control over, been there, done that, still got a couple of the BDUs.
-F
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Oh yes, also, speaking of Video Games...
Can't find the thread, but PN had mentioned Shattered Union previously, a game which is pretty interesting if you're willing to overlook the storyline issues...
Well, apparently they're gonna put it to the big screen.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010438.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Jerry Bruckheimer & J. Michael Straczynski behind it, can't say that impresses me a lot, but at LEAST they didn't send in Uwe Boll *shudder*.
Hell, they film it close enough I'd frickin volunteer to be an extra, some spare redshirt cannon fodder - especially if I get to sit in a mockup of an FCS Grant and bellow orders, meh heh heh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Union
All hail the mighty Great Plains Federation!
-F
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