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Yeah, I'm not going to say much here, since I have no experience, just stories been told from my co-workers who faught in the Gulf War years ago. One such time "civilians" were found running across a field carrying boxes (obviously guns and ammo stolen from the soldiers' camp), but because the proper authority wouldn't give the command to take them down finally one of the soldiers made that decision himself, and well other chimed in, and the end result was a civilian truck on fire, and a bunch of mangled bodies. That guy had his rank stripped from him, but was later granted it back after a superior to that superior analyzed the situation and felt he did the right thing.
There's so many things the media can leave out to make a story sound patriotic or unpatriotic. I'll stick with human nature, these guys are fearing for their life, there's going to be communication problems, and well if someone encroaches on their borders they've set-up to protect themselves, they're going to take pre-cautionary measures, and possibly find out in the end that they did or did not need to, but that will be after the fact. I'm just glad I'm not in their shoes.
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