I feel your pain. I hate medical dramas for just the same reason. The new show, Trauma, was an utter piece of crap and paints EMS workers in a fairly negative light.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:45 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone been watching this? > > You know I've really been enjoying it until last night's episode. > > Ok so they have a notional private military company named Jericho (the > equivalent of a Blackwater, triple canopy). > > So this chick is on a "long range surveillance" ALONE. She sees these > contractors kill an entire village of Afghanis. > > Arrrggghhhhhh > > LRS is an infantry or SF job. There are no I repeat NO U.S. military > females that are permitted to do this duty. It's a male only career field. > > Another part of the story has a hadji vehicle run her traffic control point. > This TCP is being run by 2 soldiers and they take off after the vehicle and > get ambushed. Do these people not use military advisors? It would be very > very rare for 2 soldiers to be outside the wire by themselves. Also the > vehicle wouldn't have gotten past the TCP. Wouldn't have even gotten close. > They would have been lit up with a Mk 19 and or a .50 machine gun. > > Additionally why do they go after the big bad evil PMC? PMCs are not > permitted to conduct offensive operations. They are authorized only for > defensive measures. Additionally the majority of them are not even hired on > the DoD side, they are mainly contracting for DoS, USAID, and other > agencies. They provide security in high risk situations. > > Have there been shit bags that fired up civilians and did other negative > things, yes of course, the 10% rule (10% of everyone, SF, rangers, delta, > cops, whoever, are dirt bags) however the vast majority of security > contractors are patriotic Americans, veterans, that are simply providing a > needed service cheaper and more efficiently than can be provided within the > current military force structure. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307883 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
