V4Vendetta said: I was reading "Secret Commando's" last night by John Plaster who was a Green Beret & member of SOG. According to his book, at one time they captured a NVA truck driver . . .
Dude . . . DUDE . . .
DUDE . . . where's my car?
Are you really comparing capturing a Motor T, er . . . OK, that means truck driver . . . the capture of a guy driving a truck to . . . attempting the capture of seven guys actively hunting for you?
V4Vendetta said: Are you guys getting too dumb to read my posts before you mock me?
Questions like this are lightning rods for smart-@$$ responses, because they reflect the ignorance of the inquiry.
You know . . . like if they had a gun like the BFG like they have in the computer game DOOM, they'd all be dead . . . or . . . if they had pigs with wings . . . they could fly overhead and crap on them . . . and then they'd be so mortified . . . they'd all kill themselves.
Comments suggesting they respond to a hunting party with less than lethal force sounds just as ridiculous as those. Here V4 . . . Here's some ether in a glass jar, and a taser . . . and a shotgun. I'm bringing some friends over in a few minutes armed with rifles to hunt for you. Which would you choose?
Consider that the troops actually RESPONDED with deadly force, probably OVERWHELMING, and netted . . .
1 dead, 2 WOUNDED. The rest got away. Proving even "lethal force" isn't always lethal.
Lighting up these fellas in an "Oh **** . . . Ambush!!!" still didn't kill all them. That's what happens in the fog of war. Even something that seems as simple as shooting fish in a barrel isn't guaranteed to give you a trout for dinner.
I mean this in the best of ways, really I do . . . but when you pose questions that reflect both ignorance of experience, and the absence of forethought, on a site filled with folks bearing painfully earned knowledge and good judgement learned from years of mistakes . . . Expect people to react with a *** and WHO are YOU? response.
Monday morning Q-backing a wartime event with . . . "Why didn't they do this? . . . I read this in a book . . ." sounds like guys we ridicule who don't have any experience and tell the grizzled vet how he should do things because . . . that's what it says it should be done in that book.