Man, the video is pretty damning.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...fghanistan-soldier-video-us-investigates.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...fghanistan-soldier-video-us-investigates.html
You can thank W for getting us in there and O for not getting us out during each of their 8 year tenures.Yeah but it's just a Trumphole country so who cares if they're treated as subhuman?
If this local guy was on the fence about the US being in Afghanistan, I bet he's off that fence now.You can thank W for getting us in there and O for not getting us out during each of their 8 year tenures.
Where is all of this love for other countries coming from? During the Rio Olympics, people here were calling Brasil a hellhole, cesspool, disaster, backwards...and nobody except for me seemed to have a problem with it.Yeah but it's just a Trumphole country so who cares if they're treated as subhuman?
Shhh. It doesn't fit their narrative.Where is all of this love for other countries coming from? During the Rio Olympics, people here were calling Brasil a hellhole, cesspool, disaster, backwards...and nobody except for me seemed to have a problem with it.
Can't explain the window shattering, but I didn't see any form of a muzzle blast, or any recoil from the weapon.Man, the video is pretty damning.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...fghanistan-soldier-video-us-investigates.html
what narrative would that be? the issue wasn't that trump called those countries s holes, it is that he used that as a way of implying that the us would rather have white europeans than brown folks from those countries because they are s hole people.Shhh. It doesn't fit their narrative.
From the article:Can't explain the window shattering, but I didn't see any form of a muzzle blast, or any recoil from the weapon.
Sometimes, soldiers (and police for that matter) are issued bean-bag rounds for shotguns. They hurt if you get hit by one, but are generally not lethal.The soldier who spoke to The Times said the round that was fired was “less than lethal.” An apparent lack of recoil or a discharged cartridge suggests that the shotgun may have fired a bean bag or rubber bullet. These can be lethal when fired at close range.
thx, i was wondering the same thing myselfFrom the article:
Sometimes, soldiers (and police for that matter) are issued bean-bag rounds for shotguns. They hurt if you get hit by one, but are generally not lethal.
Of course, if true that leads to the next question, why was a soldier carrying a non-lethal round in a shotgun in Afghanistan? Normally those rounds are issued when you are expecting trouble from people you want to control/deter but do not want to kill.thx, i was wondering the same thing myself
Something tells me that dude is about to catch all kinds of hell from his CO and others.From the article:
Sometimes, soldiers (and police for that matter) are issued bean-bag rounds for shotguns. They hurt if you get hit by one, but are generally not lethal.
Well, he ought to get a lot of pointed questions, at the very least.Something tells me that dude is about to catch all kinds of hell from his CO and others.
I've never been around one but from what I've read in this article and elsewhere is that the shell is not ejected automatically when fired too weak for recoil or not enough gas I guess.From the article:
Sometimes, soldiers (and police for that matter) are issued bean-bag rounds for shotguns. They hurt if you get hit by one, but are generally not lethal.
Never underestimate the ability of soldiers to do the "what were you thinking?" act.I've never been around one but from what I've read in this article and elsewhere is that the shell is not ejected automatically when fired too weak for recoil or not enough gas I guess.
I wonder if the person who fired it thought it would bounce off of the window instead of busting it and possibly entering the cab.
Well our current MO in Afghanistan is, "stay low, let the afghans deal with it unless they really, really mess it up". Not a whole lot of fight seeking going on. I'd imagine the gunner was assigned the shotgun for potential "crowd control" reasons where you don't want to smoke somebody with the 240, like kids throwing bricks at the gunner, or maybe a truck driver driving like a lunatic alongside and endangering your truck. Then again, they aren't the best or most rule-abiding drivers in the world, so...Of course, if true that leads to the next question, why was a soldier carrying a non-lethal round in a shotgun in Afghanistan? Normally those rounds are issued when you are expecting trouble from people you want to control/deter but do not want to kill.