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tombogan03884

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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2009, 12:39:46 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on February 22, 2009, 10:32:30 PM
I think machineguns have killed more people on battlefields than any other guns, so they're scary. Friendly fire from a bunch of n00bs would be scary too. Any gun pointed at me is scary.

Statisticly, even in WWI the largest killer on the battle field has been artillery and mines/boobytraps/IED's
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2009, 02:20:32 PM »
Thanks Tom. I should have remembered high-angle hell was the big killer, and I was even thinking I bet Tom knows. But I couldn't remember if it was artillery or machine guns so I flipped a coin. It came up wrong.

Snipers are a lot less deadly as far as number of people killed and they wouldn't likely shoot someone as unimportant as me. A REMF (Rear Echelon MoFo) with like me wouldn't be on the front lines anyway.  ;D
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2009, 02:32:31 PM »
Air Support...you make contact with the enemy on the ground, and if they have the ability, they'll call it in rather than even risk further engagement.  And depending on who it is there is no escape.  In specific Spookys and Specters.
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2009, 02:41:07 PM »
I never even thought about gunships. During the Cold War we were facing helicopter gunships like the Hind-D too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind_D There was a cartoon in SoF magazine that showed a Russian Hind-D crew in Afghanistan.
The pilot asked the gunner "How can you shoot wonen and children like that?" His answer was, "You don't lead them as much."
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2009, 02:48:28 PM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on February 23, 2009, 02:41:07 PM
There was a cartoon in SoF magazine that showed a Russian Hind-D crew in Afghanistan.
The pilot asked the gunner "How can you shoot wonen and children like that?" His answer was, "You don't lead them as much."

Came from Full Metal Jacket.  Also "Anyone who runs is V.C.  Any one who don't run is a smart V.C."
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2009, 11:22:41 AM »
from the stories that I've heard the hind is one of the most fearsome vehicles to face on the field especially if you don't have the means to deal with it.
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2009, 11:26:32 AM »
Quote from: GameDev_Bryan on February 23, 2009, 02:48:28 PM
Came from Full Metal Jacket.  Also "Anyone who runs is V.C.  Any one who don't run is a smart V.C."

Your chronology is backwards.
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Re: greatest fear factor?
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2009, 01:51:35 AM »
You're right again Tom. So was I this time.  :)  I saw that cartoon while I was still in the army but that movie didn't come out until a couple years after I got out.
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