Originally posted by SOC
“We have seen several movies and pictures where US soldiers kill in anger and purely for destruction and sometimes joy.”
Prove that one, show me a link or a picture.
Not difficult, Sean: the very (in)famous AC-130 footage that goes on for around 10 minutes where you can clearly hear whoops and “yeahhh!” in the background. Perfectly understandable in some ways (remoteness from the casualties and the arcade-game images via FLIR), so why pretend it’s not true?
Would you imagine the footage from the AC-130 that shot-up a wedding party (or was it two?) would be any different?
There was a very interesting TV documentary shown here earlier this week concerning Marshall’s studies in 1947 about the inability of troops to “shoot to kill” during WWII. I was amazed that only 25% of front-line infantry soldiers actually shot at the enemy (ie in their direction) and only 2% shot to kill: of those 1% were described as “sociopaths” who enjoyed the experience and the other 1% as what most would recognise as heroic in that they killed against their nature to save lives of their own men etc.
This figure was also borne-out by the fact that 1% of all pilots accounted for all of the A2A kills in WWII as well.
One of the strongest points made was that it is incredibly difficult to kill another human being at arms’ reach but not so at distance.
Part two is being screened next week and is due to cover the training and doctrine over recent years which has attempted to bring that total of 2% up to something like 75%.
Best regards
Steve ~ Touchdown-News
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