Amazing Ranger Story from Iraq (Guns and Tactics Galore)

[siglite]

That's hardcore. Those rangers. MOUT is scary stuff, and those guys are hard chargers. No question.

But anyone disregarding the astronomical cost discrepancy have probably never read Sun Tzu.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

Almost sounds like it time for the flame throwers as per the clearing of the Japanese held islands in WWII.

 

[Travis McGee]

ExSoldier: YOU GET IT! HOO-AH!

 

[buzz_knox]

Air strikes are wonderful, as long as 1) you have boots on the ground to identify the target and direct the fire accurately and/or 2) you are willing to accept "collateral damage" in the form of dead civilians if the strike is inaccurate (either due to bad intel, bad aim, etc).

The Rangers located the target, brought the strikes in while evacuating innocent noncombatants. They did their duty, and did it fantastically well.

 

[Slugless]

Almost sounds like it time for the flame throwers as per the clearing of the Japanese held islands in WWII.

+1.

I was on a tour of WWII battlefields and the tour leader was a marine captain, a veteran of combat in Vietnam. We were examining some German pillboxes and I asked:

"Captain Ron, what weapon in our inventory has replaced the flamethrower?"

The Captain got a thoughtful look on his face and said: "Good question, Slug-boy. We have the thermobaric warheads on some rockets but...I can think of a couple situations I've been in where a flamethrower would have been the trick."

We have those cool combat robots now, why not outfit one of those with a flamethrower? Maybe with a SAW for suppressive fire?

Just thinking...

 

[jmtgsx]

I'm amazed that they were able to i.d. any of the insurgents, especially after the 500 pounders degraded the house into a hole.