About 15 years ago, I got to play around with the huge Apache flight sim the Army had in Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Germany (West Germany then). Thing was amazing. They had this wall that was about 50' x 80' at least that was a miniature landscape complete with trees, houses, troops, tanks, etc. The simulator was a full-sized, full-featured Apache cockpit on large hydraulics and it would respond properly to the input from controls, and there was a miniature video array that would "fly" around the model wall and you would get multi-angle video of the model. It was surprsingly realistic, and, very realistically, I crashed constantly. The Apache is one of the single mos timpressive vehicles in the air today.
That said, I can appreciate this video for the tech factor. I'm a weapons geek and a fan of military history and technology. When I see something like this, I dissassociate myself with the targets and pay attention to the tech. I am not concerned about the targets as I trust that the pilots were picking said targets with good intel and following proper RoE.
The second video I found truly ghoulish and frightening, though I am fairly sure that it was spun to make the scenario look worse (even though I think it was fairly bad even trying to think around the spin). I have no issues with Marines killing enemy combatants. It is what we train them to do. It does kind of concern me when it is done with so much joyful glee. The comments afterward were probably the most unsettling, though I am sure they were chopped and taken out of context as is normal for the media.
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