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November 9th Raw Footage
I recommend going back to 9 November if it's been awhile.
Red 8 and I took PL Fran.
November 9-1: We are pummeling a garage that a bunch of insurgents sprinted into for cover. You can appreciate SGT P's tunnel vision once you see what he is looking through. You can also see the red laser appearance of SSG Terry's HEAT round in the GPSE. A16 and A18 were side by side on Fran and we were going to town. Also you can hear SGT P's famous "Daaaaaamn!" and his calm "ontheway."
November 9-2: Looking at SSG Terry and A18 while giving a SITREP about the garage we just hammered. You can see my loader, Langford's M240. There is a bradley in front of SSG Terry. These were the TF2-2 guys who were hundreds of meters in front of us on PL Fran, and completely oblivious to the bad guys running around in front of them. So these videos are after my tank section pulled up and prepared to drop steel rain on the insurgents.
November 9-3: I am trying to get Boggiano to see the same target I am. He was a few kilometers behind me on the bride of the cloverleaf and using the LRAS. All he saw at first was a bunch of minarets but I was trying to get him to see the one that had previously been hot with activity.
November 9-4: Watching guys blow up.
"A dude?" SGT P asked.
"A dude went flying off that thing!" Langford said.
"Was that a dude?" SGT P asked again in disbelief.
"Yes." I laughed.
"I saw that shit." He replied.
I sent up a SITREP to the XO. Props to Phantom 5. He did a good job of battle tracking all of this. The 20 rounds were just devastating. It was hard to drop more.
The net is crazy. You got your crew jabbering away on the intercom. Your wingman is trying to talk to you on the platoon net. You are trying to talk on the company net. But you are in direct coordination with Ramrod 18 on the fires net. I was constantly asking "What'd he say?" because as I was talking to one guy, I was hoping someone on my crew heard whatever the hell SSG Terry was trying to tell me.
I think the FA guys really had a blast on this day.
"He was pretty excited. They all said 'repeat it!'" I said.
I recommend going back to 9 November if it's been awhile.
Red 8 and I took PL Fran.
November 9-1: We are pummeling a garage that a bunch of insurgents sprinted into for cover. You can appreciate SGT P's tunnel vision once you see what he is looking through. You can also see the red laser appearance of SSG Terry's HEAT round in the GPSE. A16 and A18 were side by side on Fran and we were going to town. Also you can hear SGT P's famous "Daaaaaamn!" and his calm "ontheway."
November 9-2: Looking at SSG Terry and A18 while giving a SITREP about the garage we just hammered. You can see my loader, Langford's M240. There is a bradley in front of SSG Terry. These were the TF2-2 guys who were hundreds of meters in front of us on PL Fran, and completely oblivious to the bad guys running around in front of them. So these videos are after my tank section pulled up and prepared to drop steel rain on the insurgents.
November 9-3: I am trying to get Boggiano to see the same target I am. He was a few kilometers behind me on the bride of the cloverleaf and using the LRAS. All he saw at first was a bunch of minarets but I was trying to get him to see the one that had previously been hot with activity.
November 9-4: Watching guys blow up.
"A dude?" SGT P asked.
"A dude went flying off that thing!" Langford said.
"Was that a dude?" SGT P asked again in disbelief.
"Yes." I laughed.
"I saw that shit." He replied.
I sent up a SITREP to the XO. Props to Phantom 5. He did a good job of battle tracking all of this. The 20 rounds were just devastating. It was hard to drop more.
The net is crazy. You got your crew jabbering away on the intercom. Your wingman is trying to talk to you on the platoon net. You are trying to talk on the company net. But you are in direct coordination with Ramrod 18 on the fires net. I was constantly asking "What'd he say?" because as I was talking to one guy, I was hoping someone on my crew heard whatever the hell SSG Terry was trying to tell me.
I think the FA guys really had a blast on this day.
"He was pretty excited. They all said 'repeat it!'" I said.
posted by REDSIX at 7:05 AM
7 Comments:
Thanks for putting those up.
I was hoping we'd be able to see more of the interesting parts from Fire for Effect, but I can't complain...
I get an error on the November 9-4 video.
All the rest work fine.
Using Quicktime on a Mac.
Yeah I realize how much people are hoping to see artillery dropping or bodies flying. Remember, I can't show that stuff even if I had it, which I don't. Second, from 3km away, if the guys looked like tiny figures to me, then they definitely won't show up on my crappy res dig camera. The whole point of why i was even filming this will come up on this same day in Boggiano's entry of 9 November.
I just tried it and it worked fine in realplayer. Try it again.
On my Mac, 09NOV04E1.AVI cannot be played by RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, or Quicktime (all are the latest versions).
There's something different about this file -- the rest work fine. Any chance of re-encoding it so we Mac users can watch it, too? Thanks!
This guy is the ultimate tanker geek... what an extraordinary character... Respect, man...
i think when you do another "fallujah" and take on another jihadist stronghold, don't announce it prior like you already did. Just monitor the target city/town with a UAV and a spectre gunship and take out any leadership targets or reinforcements( with 40mm/105mm). Keep your tank task force about 5 miles away as if you are ready to engage. Then announce to the city/town they have 1 day to get out (civvies) and try to bag the tangos that leave.
Now, send another UAV to get exact locations of concentrated jihadists and then send in an F-15 or two armed with modified 1kt lance missile warheads or similar neutron fusion charges(ER-RB) with timed fuzes or radar prox fuzes and then airburst them about 300m above the targets, killing the jihadists instantly or within a few hours(with radiation). Then wait about 2-3 days until the radiation is less harmful and send in locked down tanks (M1s, M2s) with NBC gear and then take out any surviving jihadists.
Don't screw around dealing with clearing each house out, why risk US and British troops getting hit by IEDs and rockets, uh?
casualties:
jihadists = 3000-5000.
US = 0.
cost = $2,000,000?
If anyone asks what happened, say you dropped a MOAB or a stray bullet hit a petrol station or something....what about the russians lacing afgahnistan with uranium ore to poison the populace, no one mentions that anymore?
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