Today is the anniversary of the downing of Turbine33.
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Owen Butler
>muh special forces
>taken down by just an RPG
get shit on
Jeremiah Roberts
So what the was problem with their doctrine that allowed an aircraft to be shot down like that? What mistakes were made? There must be thousands of RPGs in circulation in Afghanistan, and very rarely do aircraft get shot down with them, so what went wrong?
Oliver Collins
>what went wrong
This one hit
Mason Clark
>faggots got rekt
And nothing of value was lost
Jackson Ward
The Night Stalkers/SEAL's got a little two ballsy and tried inserting a SEAL team right into a active firefight with no Apache support or support at all. Thus one raghead was able to get a EZ shot on one of the chinooks
Robert Jones
I imagine they were relatively slow and low looking for the SEALs on the ground and it was still broad daylight. The Taliban would have been well hidden abd had an easy target.
Gavin Garcia
I thought there was apache support once the rescue mission was launched.
Nolan Ward
special forces, more like, killed in action
Ryan Barnes
>that scene in lone survivor where a SEAL pulls his sidearm on one of the Chinook pilots and REEEs at him to land the chopper after the first one is shot down
Did that shit actually happen?
Juan Baker
No. Only one Chinook went in initially and that was Turbine 33. The second one came in later with reinforcement and after CAS had cleared the area. Lutrell was long gone.
Lincoln Morales
Maj. Reich made the call to go in ASAP and not wait for Apache support. That's why he took the stick.
Benjamin Allen
Not the only time they made a golden BB shot.
Blake Walker
Looks like I'm full of shit. Went back a re-read on it. Sorry.
Thomas Diaz
Guarentee that guy got first dibs on goat pussy that night
Daniel Adams
>loses one chopper
>OMFG GREATEST DEFEAT SINCE THE PHILIPPINES
Evan Johnson
Here's what actually happened.
Christopher Cox
Werent these guys a SDV Team which was support or 2nd tier dudes? I was surprised they saw regular combat like their active Seal brothers or are they just switched with personnel from the actual seal teams.
Julian Miller
Read The Book!
Obama set-up these men as revenge for the Bin Laden hit w/orders that they could only fly out at one altitude and in one corridor
Isaiah Watson
Coordination is key.
Brandon Williams
>Werent these guys a SDV Team which was support or 2nd tier dudes?
SDV teams are literally the same as any other white SEAL team, except they’re also expected to operate SDVs
Bentley Kelly
Also known as Marcus Luttrell the bullshitter.
>Luttrell claims to be long firefight with over 300 fighters
Yet...
>Magazines are full and complete in rig.
>No bodies of any enemy combatant
>Claims will donate the part of money made from the book to his Afghan friend Gulab
>Never did. Neither did Luttrell ever help him relocate to the US
What a scumbag.
John Roberts
what the fuck are on about?
Andrew Taylor
Taking down a helicopter with an RPG must be the best feeling ever.
Grayson Powell
>Be seals
>fly chopper directly into hot LZs
>get shot down or ambushed
>act surprised
>repeat
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Benjamin Ortiz
Wow. It just took it, didn't move at all
Isaiah Myers
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Basically the OP was poorly put together and poorly executed. It was publicly covered up to make a feel good hero story, but behind the scenes most understand that it was a huge clusterfuck.
They were compromised early, and were a team outnumbered and outgunned. They made a number of mistakes like not properly stowing the fast ropes, and being easily tracked by the ACM. Additionally they allowed a laptop with classified intel like Embassy layouts in Kabul to be retrieved by the enemy.