Friendly Fire Stories

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friendly fire, someone shot their 1911 at the helicopter and knocked out the radio.

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I know there was one in Grozny during 1994 where 2 Russian mechanized units got into a firefight with each other for 6 hours.

That whole siege was pretty much a cluster fuck and has a ton of /k/ tier moments

>>32661771
can vatniks not afford radios?

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>>32661572

need more green text!

>>32661572

Someone must have heard the gunshots

>>32661572
Nice murder.

>>32661572
Yezzzur I have one. I rarely tell anyone about it because of obvious reasons, but it really makes you more aware in general after it happens
>Be Baghdad 2007, back during the heavy fighting
>My platoon and sister platoon clearing houses for hours on end at night.
>Sitting in gun hatch behind 240
>Sister platoon starts taking contact a few streets OVER
>RPGs and SAF come over towards my platoon dismounts on the roof of a house
>Humvees are parked directly in front of the row of houses, houses are parralell to the 9 o'clock of Humvees
>Dismounts on roof return fire
>Gunner in front of me isn't oriented to our friendly location on roof(probably sleep)
>Immediately let's off a burst from his 240 towards our dismounts on roof
>Clearly see one of my buddies drop
>Bullet caught the back of his helmet, looped around the inside and fell out the front
>Force of bullet knocks his NVG mount into his forehead, knocking him unconscious
>Get back to COP and let PSG and other SSGs know I saw
>Get my ass literally chewed out, one of our team leaders called me a snitch(Army logic)
>Standby my story, PSG says the fire could have come from anywhere (obviously multiple units engaging)
>Situation swept under the rug at platoon level, the guy who was gunning gets tasked out to another company a few weeks later
So yah. We also had friendly forces passing by our COP off RTE Irish shoot at our COP a few times (probably natty guard). Training matters

>>32662375
The Chechens, as they could speak fluent Russian, and as a lot of the Chechen rebels were former Russian military and were thus familiar with the Russian radio procedures, would actually go on the radio and do shit like this all the time. Call in Russian artillery in Russian positions, order one Russian unit to attack another, order Russian troops to areas where they had set up for an ambush, etc

Pretty genius actually

>>32662599
That's not murder, it's war.

A war with circumstances easier to win than any war in the recorded history of the universe. all we had to do was kill everyone that was not white. We had technology so vastly superior we could have won without taking a single casualty. The faggot in charge fucked it all up, not accidentally though, they purposely did not win so as to maximize profits. Why use the full range of our capabilities and win in a week when they can drag it in indefinitely for infinite profit?

We should have dropped VX gas on the entire region on day one with simultaneous kinetic/nuclear strikes on any and all hardened targets. Any violent objectors should be dealt with similarly and then once the area was safe we send in cleanup teams and colonize the whole area.

The war in the Middle East is objectively the most complete and utter failure of any war. It's disgraceful.

>>32661572
I was almost shot on a live firing range at SOI ITB.

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>>32662901
>irl shitposting
reminds me of a greentext about russians and ukrainians using the same channels on walkie talkies in crimea to talk shit to one another

>>32661572
>3ID during the invasion
>Dismount team leader in a Mech infantry company
>few days into the invasion, pushing towards a Iraqi position
>dismount and get online and start sweeping towards a mortar pit
>suddenly my squad leader is screaming at me
>ANON!!
>I stop and turn to look over my shoulder at him, his arm is outstretched towards me and he has this look of horror on his face
>a heartbeat later, he relaxes and yells "let's go!" and waves me forward
about a week later he pulls me aside and tells me what happened from his point of view. we were online and I was on the far right, with him just behind the squad. he looked over his right shoulder just in time to see an ADA Brad that was attached to our company open fire with it's coax and the rounds were walking along the ground towards me. He said that just as he yelled at me the ADA Brad stopped firing and the last tracer round impacted about 10 feet behind me.

>>32662920
>That's not murder, it's war.
It literally is, he was not a combatant.

>>32662952
o fuq

c/o prolly shat himself

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>>32662965
I wonder who could be behind this post?

>>32661572
A guy from one of our sister battalions that I was in WTU with got shot five times by a saw during night-ops in Baghdad.

>>32662599
>>32662965
>war has rules!!1!
kek your limpwristed cuckold ass is someone who gets fragged

>>32662965
as far as I am concerned if he knowingly led soldiers into an ambush he is a combatant

>>32662965
It was not murder, it was just a prank bro

>>32662965
yeah they should have arrested that guy who led them to an ambush during the ambush. :^)

>>32663047
underage b& pls go

>/k/ meetup, years ago
>there is this one kid who wont shut up about russia, no one likes him
>had acres upon acres of land to mill about in
>he's annoying but trying to make friends
>say lets go explore
>we get about 2 miles out, shooting at trees along the way
>come upon a small ravine
>figure this will do, frag him in the back, right in the spine
>dump him in ravine
>walk back to camp, no one notices he's gone
>leave early, no one the wiser
>slavboo had it coming

>>32663142
doesn't sound very friendly to me.

>>32662920
Jesus Christ, can you even be more of an edgelord?

>>32663185
well, the slavboo tried to be friendly

>>32663217
>>32663142
F

>>32662952
Fuuuuuuuuck that

>>32662965
The dunecoon become a combatant the second he provided intel that led to direct assault on our forces. Neck yourself mudslime loving filth

>>32662920
I'd post that
>ow the edge
reaction pic if I had it.

>>32661572
Another squad called a gunrun in afghanistan before getting a posrep from my squad and so we got engaged accidentally.The A10 shot cannon at us but nothinh happened.

>>32662901
And this is how an insurgency in the US would go.

>>32663142
you don't sound like a stable fella

Tangiently related story about an ND

>Helmand, Afghanistan ~April 2011
> finishing up a 9 month deployment from hell
> platoon from 3/4 Marines is replacing us at our patrol base
> for some reason they had never been trained on how to use a LAW rocket launcher.
> One of our sergeants is giving a hip-pocket class to the guys replacing us on how to operate it using a spent casing
> when he depresses the launch lever the thing actually goes off.
> it was a live rocket, not a spent casing
> impacts the ground about 5 ft from the mortar pit's ASP
> luckily didn't travel far enough to arm itself
> EOD digs it out and blows it up on our next patrol

In his defense, he found it laying in a pile of other spent/extended casings, so someone fucked up big time by leaving it there in the first place. He still should have realized it was live by the weight though. This dude wasnt an idiot either. He was the saltiest squad leader in our company and was a phantom fury vet.

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>this thread

Literally inbred redneck breeding ground

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>>32662901
I get a giggle from imagining this

>>32662739

Shit's retarded. I mean, I don't expect it to be broadcast worldwide as to what happen, just that it's at least taken note of and precautions are made to make sure it doesn't happen again. At least nobody died needlessly.

>>32662965

It's easy to sit back in our armchairs and judge.

>>32662901
i wonder if isis or other terrorists would do the same most speak english and might even know hebrew but knowing how retarded backwareds arabs are they might not do it

>>32662901
Jesus Christ. What a nasty fucking conflict.

>>32662599
>Nice murder.
>implying OP didn't make shit up

>>32663199

He's not wrong though. We sent our guys into battle with an arm and both legs tied behind their backs for the past 15 years with very few exceptions (Fallujah).

>>32667011
That's what you have to do to shoehorn infantry into a police action that should have been handled by an expanded SF detachment and a concerted, long-term cultural solution based in reviving Iraqi/Afghan nationalism over religious tribal loyalty. What he's advocating is out-and-out literal genocide.

>>32663199
Tell me where I'm wrong?

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>>32661724
Took me a second to realize that the pic was related. That's some OG shit, there.

So, some GI just decided to use your bird as target practice? Doing a mail run and forgot the beer and porn? What's the story?

>>32662739
>Near Taji in 2006
>on a dismounted patrol for some stupid hearts and minds mission
>getting near dark and returning
>start taking fire from humvees on RTE Tampa
>dipshit gunner is firing all over and hitting nothing
>the convoy only has comms with brigade so it takes about 5 min to get a hold of them and get them to stop firing at us and every random movement in the town
>turns out it was a bunch of Minnesota National guard morons
so yeah the guard has it's share of morons but
>same year same village
>it happens again
>only this time it was an active duty unit
>after having our brigades arty sit on gate guard for 10 months brigade got the bright idea that they should start patrolling
>the first time they get out the gate one of their idiots opens up on one of our patrols with the 249
>luckily he was less competent with it than the NG guys were
active component also has it's share of idiots

>>32662438
>win battle without being present

Have some feels with this story.
https://storycorps.org/listen/harvey-hilbert/

>>32663142
sometimes I need to be reminded that the reason it seems everyone is crazy here is not all because of ironic shitposting, but because some people really are crazy.

I don't believe it tho

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>>32662739
>Bullet caught the back of his helmet, looped around the inside and fell out the front
wat

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>>32662739
>Get my ass literally chewed out
>literally

>>32667080
You're advocating for the genocide of an entire geographical region. Fucking Himmler wasn't even quite that retarded.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were clusterfucks, but saying "lol just kill everyone" is both morally and politically retarded, as well as just logistically wasteful.

You'd literally be no better than those you're fighting.

>>32666164
>28 casualties
What the fuck.

>>32675649
iirc something about the batteries being changed led to a needed recalibration of the gps and when that didn't happen the system used the maps coordinates where the gps was located at the time.

>>32663142
I survived.

>>32662920
>fighting for isreal

good goy

>>32662438
This may or may not have actually happened.

>Battle of Khafghi, GW1, 3 Iraqi divisions pour into Saudi Arabia.
>Marine LAVs proceed to delay.
>Certifiably best TOW gunner in unit blasts one of their own LAV-ATs.

>A10s arrive.
>Can't see shit, drop illumination flares.
>Flare lands right next to LAV-25.
>Dismounts try to bury it while entire unit radios their position relative to the flare.
>LAV-25 gets mavericked anyway.
>In first full fledged battle of the war, Marines lose 2 LAVs and 10 men total, all to friendly fire.

>>32675588
If the causus belli of a war is not good enough to warrant total annihilation of the enemy, is it really worth fighting?

>>32675649
>>32675723
The TACP that called it in was borrowing a new system from a SOWT he wasn't used to using. The battery thing is correct, he lased a couple of yards in front of him to calibrate, this location wasn't immediately tossed and ended up being the cords he sent to the bomber. Normally it would flag a warning due to being danger close to his cords, but the weather guys disable that feature because they primarily use the system for reading cloud height. He also did not relay his cords to the bomber because by a few weeks earlier a different SF battalion headquarters dropped a bomb on themselves, so it was directive at the time to not relay his position to avoid the bomber incorrectly punching in the wrong cords.

The bomb was also set to detonate after impact because they were targeting a cave, if it was set to airburst or whatever everyone on their hill would have been vaporized.

The book The Only Thing Worth Dying For details that ODA's mission in Afghanistan and the incident and rescue efforts after, good read, I'd recommend.

>>32661724
Chickenhawk?

Sounds familiar

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>>32666164
>ODA 574
>Hamid Karzai
>"JD"

Fuck, spoiled it for me

Great book btw, recommend

>>32662920


> POS killed a civilian.
>not only he was a noncombant he could have provided intel maybe even valuable intel.
>stupid fucking grunts.

>kill someone defenseless because hurr he betrayed us. ziptie and gag and bag. then if he gets shot in ambush
>also why the fuck were you allowed to run off after this fucker.

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>>32662901
>>32666967
not only that, but some chechen and russian commanders served together prior to the war.

There is that particularly gutwrenching radio recording of a russian company being encircled in some aparment building with no hope of reinforcements or rescue where the chechen commander keeps radioing the russian commander (his friend) to just abandon the position and walk away with the life of his men and of himself. All he gets in reply is

>"I have recieved no such orders"
sad shit

https://youtu.be/EuN3jq_mDiU?t=1m2s

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www.liveleak.com/view?i=34e_1484544118

>stop calling me a tk'r, next time don't walk into my fire noob.

>>32676576
Fucking Mattis man.

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>>32676796
Oh yeah, that's how i found this book. Was reading about Mattis leaving these guys to die.

Was also reading this book as well. Jump master recommended it to me, believe it's in one of SMA daley's "reading lists"

>>32676729
Just respawn and get him back

>>32662739

H-hey there's nothing wrong with the Guard.

>>32661572
>be me
>be security contractor
>group gets told friendly US soldiers are passing through shitsburg ghetto
>"be sure to wear something distinguishing, don't want any accidents"
>all of us sweating our asses off in "don't shoot us americans!" gear
>americans waddle through
>pvt. Hamburgers eyes me and a buddy escorting clients child home from school
"THEYS USING CHILD SHIELDS!"
>pops a round off
>hits my shoulder
>buddy pushes kid out of the way, fires back at hamburgers feet out of instinct
>pull my sidearm while lying on the ground

>everybodygotgunsoneverybody.avi

our boss and their LT or whatever sort out the misunderstanding, I'm not upset about getting hit, smug it up that I earn way more than any one of those soldierboys
>being a douchebag eases the pain

It was a good time

>>32672463
wow, that was max_feel

>>32673092
When it hit the back of the ACH, it essentially curved along the inside of the helmet. Helmets can't stop rifle rounds but they can deflect/redirect if the angle is correct

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>>32662920

>>32677906
What the fuck were you doing in Pittsburg?

>cav scout, inna sandbox
>staring at target building across the river for hours from rooftop
>building is known Iranian SF safe house
>we never do anything though, just watch
>they know that we know and occasionally wave at us when they spot us
>been doing this for weeks
>relief incoming when all of the sudden channel lights up about contact
>relief says they're being ambushed
>try to get a vector of incoming
>see tracers and start calling it, realize it's Americans
>oh fuck
>start yelling to call it off, gun fire eventually subsides
>pissed off and late to be relieved again
>check on target
>Fucking Iranians waving at us, probably having a good laugh

>>32676711
I saw that in a /wsg/ thread. They have quality /k/ WebM threads but with sound

a guy in my division gave me some 'friendly fire' in my rack, if you know what i mean

https://youtu.be/L8-wr8_qRBQ

>I just killed a bunch of people
>they're friendlies, they're US people
>I'm just..... I'm ruined, you know

>>32676729
>oh shit inna gunfight
>better aim 5 inches right of my partner's head

>>32679191
Plz elaborate

>>32667153
Is dipshittery common in the guard?
I want to join (the whole, I'll be here if they need me thing seems appealing)

But if they're not gonna train me properly, I dont wanna join. I dont want to be a dangerous hinderance.

>>32680787
I'm sure there are some decent guard units out there but most of them ive ever been around are fudd/jacked the fuck up. I mean you only half ass train a few times a year, as opposed to activity duty who are always doing something, even if just pocket training behind the company area. Back in the days when the guard would deploy, you'd have to serve with these guys in combat with little training

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>>32662920

hard day at middle school?

>>32681222
Damn. I take my entrance exam to the fire academy in two months. If I make it I still want to serve.
But it sounds like the Guard has a propensity for causing more harm than good overseas.

>>32681494
Just choose a really fucking POG MOS. Don't do combat arms unless you go active

>>32665689
Unless we get ahold of some crypto keys, no, it wouldn't.

Vatniks can't into comsec, or story is bullshit. I believe the bit about the motorolas though.

>>32662952
>ADA Brad = 5/7 Cav. Had a few friends in that unit as I'm a former 14R.

>>32681740
This.

the fuddlore in guard infantry units will make your head spin.

>>32666925
Radio encryption is a thing.

>>32667153
>>32680787
It's common in all 3 components. I'm former AD and my last AD unit is complete dog shit. The Guard unit I deployed with was the most squared away unit I've ever been with, alot of that has to do with half the company being former AD Army and Marines so the joes had some really good leadership. You will find fuckery no matter where you go. A rule of thumb with the Guard is units that are closer to major cities are generally a lot better than po dunk BFE country units. If you want to join the Guard to do Army shit but also to do Guard shit (natural disaster response, ect) then go MP. Find an MP unit in/near a majr city and you'll more than likely be in a decent unit. Guard infantry unit's range from dog shit to barely functioning. MP's generally have the most troops with real careers on the outside where as most combat Guard soldiers are NEET's.

this inst really the right thread but most of the footage is from the Iraq war.

is there any footage from the highway of death? im guessing its probably not released anywhere publically

>>32662599
>Supporting perfidy

>2006 shitghanistan
>TIC big time
>3 US HMMWVs, 3 US Toyotas, 2 ANSF Ford trucks
>Lots of friendly dismounts engaging along with
>Pretty tight formation, edge of wadi
>USAF bro is on comms with TOC getting us some ass
>Dutch Apaches finally on-station
>USAF bro gives them specific grid and description of our position, situation and vehicles
>Bulk of fire coming from mountain ridges and some from nearby village/fields
>ASAF bro walking Dutch choppers onto target
>FWOOSHFWOOSHFWOOSHBOOM!
>Wake up surrounded by burning vehicles and mangled good guys
>Dutch decided to strafe the entire line with rockets because retarded
>Most of attached ANSF dead or wounded
>50% of US guys incapacitated, many critical
>1 vehicle still operational
>USAF bro missing leg below knee giving Dutch fags hell on comms while being tourniqueted
>Still need the fire support from those choppers though, now more than before
>Dutch pussies so butthurt they leave AO with a majority of their ordnance unfired
>Pinned down, guys in the golden hour, have to wait for a B1 to drop an entire sortie's worth of JDAMS before we can get evac choppers in

Do us a favor and just stay home next war Dutch faggots.

>>32676729
>South Africa
Oh that makes sense, carry on then.

>>32666164
That's not friendly fire, that's just hazing.

>>32667153
Did nobody bother to inform them that there were friendlies on foot in that area?

That's absolutely retarded, how are they supposed to keep an eye out for you without knowing you're out there?

>>32681897
>Highway of Death
? You talking about Route Irish aka airport road? The James Yeager incident was on it

>>32682054
Most units have what are called Blue Force Trackers and if they're filled correctly it should show friendly forces around your element

>>32673159
>DO YOU WANT YOUR SALAD TOSSED?
>YES, DRILL SERGEANT!
>THEN BEND THE FUCK OVER!

>>32682059
>The Highway of Death refers to a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra
where they bombed all the retreating iraqis

>>32662901
proof? sounds unbelievable knowing the discipline of today's radio procedures.

>>32682075
OK gotcha. Got mixed up

>>32679002
Ensuring law and order.

>>32676373
>Hay, i want this valley back. It's ours historically and culturally.
>No, fuck you.
>K IM GOING TO KILL EVERYONE IN IT, AND IN YOUR SHIT TOO.

The entire notion of a casus belli is to prevent needless death. casus belli for genocide would be denounced globally.

You're an idiot.

>>32662952
>ADA

Fucking retards always do that kind of shit. Might as well make them all nasty girls because thats how useless they are.

>>32661572
One I've seen on here or half ass remembered from a show back when the History Channel was good.
>m48s operating operationally inna Vietnam
>uh oh, Charlie confused the lead tank for a jungle gym
>tank 1 to tank 2 come in
>lead tank requesting a backscratch over
>tank 2 loads cannister shot
>hamburger.jpg

>>32682196
So what, the canister shot penetrated the friendly tank?

>>32682152
>Balkan History 101

>>32682196
I remember this greentext

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>>32679471
>Oh shoite

>>32682196
jungle gym?
assuming back scratch is mg fire?

>>32676239
>muh warthogs fly low so they can see their targets clearly

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>>32662920
Why aren't people agreeing with you? Are they pretending to be retarded?

>>32681870
I'm not discounting your opinion, but 143rd MP co, connecticut ng was the biggest shitshow of a company i have every seen.

>Afganistan 2013, andar valley.
>CO getting drunk with junior enlisted
>platoon sergeants encouraging joe to physically fight their leaders if they don't like them
>1sg fucking a married specialist WHILE SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PULLING SECURITY IN A TOWER
>No crew served in towers, reason given: joe doesn't know how to use them
>literal holes in the walls that they haven't bothered to fix
>2/3rds of their ncos laughably overweight and out of shape

When my ad inf platoon showed up, shit hit the fan, hard. their 1sg went home, relief for cause. Co was told by battalion to sit on his hands for the rest of their 6 month hitch. their company's only responsibilities were to clean the shitters and pull kp. My platoon took over the rest of operations. They tried to go on one mission, higher found out, and pulled them back in before they got 5 miles down the road.

Completely soured me on NG forever.

>>32682229
They would have been using the M377 90mm canister round. So it would have been, ~6,000 flechette for "foliage removal". There may have been steel or lead ball versions of the round, but who knows, maybe it really happened, probably it really didn't, sounds good though.

>>32682304
A jungle gym is the dome things you see on playgrounds that kids climb on and around. "Story" goes the tank asked for another tank to give it a back scratch and shoot it with a canister round to get the guys off of it.

>>32679471
Fucking yanks. This kind of shit is why you have so many friendly fire incidents. You don't train people well enough and when it does happen you just say "It's just a fact of war and it's unavoidable."

>>32682372
It's really hit or miss from the ~decade I was in. You'd get some nasty girl units who were squared away and had their shit together in a very good way. Others who fit the description you just gave precisely. Stems from that less centralized command back home and more than that what type of leadership and NCOs they have. If their command and NCOs came from an active duty career previous there was a good chance they were going to have their shit together. If the majority of their command and NCOs were pure part-timers from the get-go, they were likely to be flabby, half-assed piles of dysfunctional shit.

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>>32661572
such a made up BS story. anyone that have served in afghanistan would call your cousin out on his BS.

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>>32682429
>You don't train people well enough
That's fucking stupid. When you fly as many sorties as we do, drop as much ordnance as we do and have that much CAS going on, you are going to have some blue on blue fire. It sucks. You learn from it. You move on.

It's easy to sit back and point fingers when you fly fuck-all for CAS sorties. If we break it down by the numbers, the US has a better record than most nations in that regard.

>>32681973
What the fuck did you expect from the Dutch?

>>32682461
Less sorties with better training are better than more with less.

>>32682499
>Better training
You are pulling this out of your ass. The US conducts more training in this regard than any other nation. Less sorties means less chances of fuckups, period. I'm assuming you're a brit, because it seems all brits think their training is top notch and their pilots and ground pounders are incapable of fucking up, which is very far from the truth.

>>32662932
lel which one?
I had two times at soi where I shit myself
One was during a night shoot trying out our pos nvg and peq, some artillery landed behind the mountain we were at. Even our combat instructors shit themselves and made us run off the range.and leave all our shit. They didn't tell us what happened but we could tell they were pissed after they got off their phones.
The other time was at that range where you advance towards the green dummy targets (they aren't paper Ivans but like those dummies you practice punching in martial arts) some retard shot around me when I was leaping ahead of him

>>32682481
Better than that. Unfortunately we had to rely on them and other ISAF allies more than we would have wanted when deployed to Southern Afghanistan. Definitely unhappy with blowing us up, but to be honest our asses were more chapped by them losing their nerves and leaving us with our dicks swinging in the wind afterward. Waiting for that American bomber was not a fun time and if those mountain monkeys had their shit together, we could have found ourselves in the worst way imaginable without cover from the air.

That being said Dutch air saved our asses on other occasions with good bombs, rockets and guns.

>>32679471
Listening to the gunner at the end sent chills down my spine.

This one is just as bad.
https://youtu.be/jabjgY6B2nM

>>32661572
>>32661572
>be me, in Helmand 2016
>hanging out in the barracks watching family guy with a few other dudes
>PFC across from me cleaning his saw and watching tv
>Another PFC and SGT sitting on the couch watching tv
>Blue harvest episode. I remember the exact moment. Stewie says "Shit" when the cleaning lady doesn't use windex
>CR-A-CKPOPOPOPOPOP
>Guy cleaning the saw let the charging handle slam on a weapon he didn't know was loaded
>hello runaway gun
>bullets shred the fucking wall and the gun bounces around on recoil
>sprays the fucking couch
>finally runs out of ammo, after 6 rounds
>Ears ringing, all of us fucking shocked
>try to clear the smoke and check were all okay
>PFC who was on couch caught three 5.56 rounds along the length of his colllarbone
>"Shit"

It was fucking bad. We went into blackout, no phones, no electronics, nothing for 2 days. PFC made it but is getting out of the army on med.
Guy with the saw wasn't found guilty of anything, but restrictions were choked on us as far as weapons cleaning went.

>>32662920
>That's not murder, it's war.

Nah, mate, thats murder. And a crime even in a war Zone. Thats what ROE's are for. You dont simply shot unarmed civies.

>>32682196
>>32682412
It happened in the tanker memoir Praying for Slack. Good read if you want to know about tanks in Vietnam.

>Be me, SPC
>Clearing houses with squad
>Little did we know another squad entered the same house from the other street
>Hear shouting through the house, indistinguishable from hadji speak
>I round corner
>See silhouette at end of the hall
>Panic.jpg
>Burst fire at it
>Watch him fall
>He starts screaming at the top of his lungs
>"Why, anon, why"
>See bruises on face from my BBs at 400 fps
>They call the ref over
>Literally ruins our airsoft game
>Get kicked out
You'll never know the struggles of the warrior within us, Anon.

>>32682913
Omg, dude. That's fucked up dude. I'm so sorry you went through that. I'm sure you were scared as hell, it could have been you.

[Spoiler] Did you at least get a refund from the arena, kek [/spoiler]

>>32682685
Is that friendly fire or an ND?

I'm a noguns civie, but I HAVE fucked your sister once, does that count?

>>32683459
Post pics?

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>>32683472

>kid NDs
>It was fucking bad. We went into blackout, no phones, no electronics, nothing for 2 days.

millenials

>>32683392
That would be ND resulting in injury I would think. I mean I guess you could call it ND resulting in friendly fire but these morons were clearly just sitting around with their hands on their dicks.
I think for it to be friendly fire you actually have to be in combat at the time
But what the fuck do I know

>>32662920
I agree with your point, not with your methods.

>>32661572
>be NFL player
>quit and join rangers
>get shot by retarded friends
>get used by pentagon as propaganda

>>32679471

"I hope it's enemy"

Sounds like me playing Arma, fucking idiot shouldn't fire if he feels the need to say that. Besides that the silhouettes clearly looked like a Bradley and a 113.

>>32683981
>cawadoodles: armchair warfare 3: tardops

>>32683563
The standards have raised you old faggot

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>>32683981

they were Scimitar light tanks genius

but I'm terrible for blue on blue in sims

>SH4
>night attack on large tanker
>only realize it is an australian flagged merchant right before 2 torpedos slam into her
>begin slowly diving to 60ft and pretend nothing happened while the crippled tanker burns in the distance

>>32684585
not just that but this faggot acts like fobs are the funnest places on earth
the fuck are you going to do, flip and paints rocks for fun

>>32676872

That book is fucking phenomenal and rejuvenated my military career.

>>32681494

This

>>32681740

Guard support is usually pretty good. Get the soldier experience and all but still be useful.

I forget what we call our firefighters, but be one of those.

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>>32682718
Good shit anon, adding to my reading list now.

>>32682079

Mistakes had to be made in order for effective guidelines to work

>>32662901
Chechens were so badass.

>>32682913

Thank u 4 ur cervix

>>32662920
This.

Kill em all. That's what the Romans did. It's the only way.

>>32662739
Its because the truth doesnt help, from their perspective. Friend would have gotten purple heart and covered medical ezpz, and commanders wouldnt get a black mark for failure to be on top of their guys, plus no negative reports for the media or morale drops. You were supposed to beat the shit our of him quietly.

That said, I commend you for doing the right thing.

>>32676729
The guy that got killed looked like he was kicking some ass.

>>32685135
He did get a purple heart. This was long ago, but yes I know I did the right thing. You compromise your platoon's integrity by allowing someone like that to operate a 240

>>32681973
If this is true hooolleee fook

>>32682685
>Cleaning a belt fed with rounds in it

Part of me doubts that is even possible, but I definitely doubt you could miss 6 linked rounds

Or was it being magazine fed

>>32662965
>>32662920
>>32661572
why hire native translators

what was the guy suppose to do take american side or his countrymens side?

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>>32685564
Bantz

>>32685392
Looks like he was providing aimed cover fire for the dude in red. Also seems like he was the most competent one there.

>>32682330
it's a brutal 2017 already

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=336_1329627250

>>32666076
Whatever. The end caps on a LAW (and an AT4, in case you say, "that's what I meant!") make it clear that the round has been fired. Additionally, an unfired LAW tube has to be extended, (and you don't usually re-collapse an expended LAW tube), and the weights of both the LAW and AT4 with the rocket inside are WAY different than a loaded tube.

TL;DR: You are full of shit.

>>32685676
makes me almost as mad as Upham

>>32686767
B-But it happened in Arma.

>>32661771
tell me more

>>32682054
the NG guys were a convoy element passing through our AO, the Arty dipshits should have known better.
>>32682070
only good if you are in vehicles, we were on foot
.>>32680787
much like everywhere else it depends on the unit some guard units are fantastic, some can barely function

>>32667065
If exterminatus was a thing, I would have been the first to advocate its use on this planet.

Especially if we hadn't left it yet.

>>32679471
Request permission to break station and go home.

Fuck that's dark, why'd you'd deny that is beyond me. Your asset is now completely combat ineffective and needs to be grounded so shit can be squared away.

>>32662920
Good. That's what happens when someone tries to kill you and then you find them alone in the wilderness. The

>>32662901
fake

fuck of civilian. If you didn't play COD all day you would realize this is very unlikely, not impossible, but I doubt it.

>>32662952
i'm guessing you're army or NG if it took a week for the debrief?

Was Army running convoy in either 06 or 07 outside either Al Assad or TQ. Pretty sure it was TQ. Got shot at by Marine patrol. No casualties. Every marine is NOT a rifleman.

>>32677347
good post aspie child. For real, whats it feel like to not understand most human behaviors?

>>32682685
i have a much gayer version of that story

>cadets at ft lewis for LDAC
>sittin in a patrol base cleaning weapons
>everything is silent
>out of nowhere....BOOOOM.... right behind me
>'fuck me, cadre is throwing arty sims at us'
>nope.jpg
>the M60 gunner and AG were cleaning the pig and had a blank round in the chamber.
>also the BFA had been removed

being a blank saved the life of the dude sitting in front of the gun (stupid), but a .308 blank going off unexpectedly after 10 mins of stark silence hurts the ear drums. back n forth shooting of live rounds is deafening as fuck, but your adrenaline is up and you expect the noise so you can manage it. When it comes out of nowhere that shit is extra startling.

moral of both stories....ALWAYS OPEN THE FEED TRAY AND CHECK CHAMBER CLEAR BEFORE CLEANING THE CREW SERVE WEAPONS

>>32682536
brits are garbage, they literally sat on base and didn't patrol for 7 months while i was in marjah. Their ROEs were so tight they couldn't leave wire without doing a IED sweep the whole way preventing any type of real patrol outside a km. I'm sure their training was so good that they didn't do shit but brag after their entire bs deployment.

>>32682571
>when I was leaping ahead of him

I wonder who the retard was here. stfu boot

>>32686767
Did you even read the story? The live LAW was extended and placed in a pile with other spent, extended casings. That's what caused the mix up. When he was teaching the class he went to grab what he thought was a spent casing from the pile that was supposed to be only spent casings, and grabbed the live one. Like I said he should have realized it was live by the weight and he really fucked up, but its not completely impossible to understand how it happened. The LAW rocket itself is only about 4 lbs, and the casing is 2lbs.

>>32689172
>ALWAYS OPEN THE FEED TRAY AND CHECK CHAMBER CLEAR BEFORE CLEANING THE CREW SERVE WEAPONS

Why would you not do this

Surely thats NEEDED to clean them

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>>32662952 twas my post
>>32662993
>>32663368
>>32681785
>>32682153
glad you liked it. I also almost got waxed on the final push in to Baghdad. We hit Objective Peach just South of Baghdad in the late afternoon. Shit looked like a movie. Apaches doing Crazy 8's at tree top level, dug in BRDM and BMPs burning and cooking off. Anyway, we fought through the night, and the next morning we found some Iraqis asleep in their fighting positions. Some surrendered right away, some fought and died in their holes. so green text
>getting these scared shitless Iraqis out of their holes
>three of us standing over a hole and two Iraqis pop up, hands up, jabbering away
>hole is parallel to road, I'm standing between the hole and the rode with my back to the road
>two guys from my squad/platoon are standing at the short end of the whole.
>BRAAAAAAAAP!
>dirt kicks up everywhere in the hole around the two Iraqis
>I think the guy on the end with the SAW just tried to kill them
>I turn my head and glare at him, he looks at me and shakes his head "no" then points behind me
>I look over my shoulder, there is a fucking tank on the road behind me
>where the fuck did that come from?
>look up, loaders 240 is max depressed
>loader looks around from behind his 240 at me and has this sheepish grin
fucker had ripped off a burst and somehow didn't didn't shoot me in the back, missed my two guys standing at the end of the hole and missed the two guys in the hole
>can't decide what to do
>got my 16 aimed at two Iraqis that may still be armed
>do I climb up on that tank and kick the loader in the face?
>the armor column drives off
>we keep clearing the holes
If there is any tanker on this forum from 3/7 Cav 3Id that was in the invasion.....FUCK YOU. I don't care if it was you, FUCK YOU TANKER. Garry Owen can suck my dick.
Pic related is from the April 2003 issue of US News. That's me with the 203 on Objective Peach, and those are the very same holes from my story.

>>32689218
Not the original anon but never, ever, EVER, underestimate the stupidity of mankind.

>>32689218
did you miss the part where he said "cadets at LDAC"? fucking college kids in ROTC.

>>32687373
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny_OMON_fratricide_incident

This might be what anon was talking about. Not sure though.

>>32689218

On 240Bs and 249s you have to let the bolt ride forward to disassemble which involves pulling the trigger and the feed tray doesnt get carbon and copper in it so brushing the dust out is a secondary process. So if you just came from the field and your not doing you due diligence you more likely to pull the trigger before anything else.

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>>32689218
>literally 2 diff OPs posted stories about crew served NDs while cleaning

ill also post this picture

>>32682913
Wheres the pic for this anon? What the fuck.

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>>32689195
he probably means he was advancing ahead of him and not literally leaping over him you stupid fuck

>>32689085
honestly, fuck you. you weren't there, and you have no clue how fast the ground war was moving. After we assaulted that mortar pit, we didn't go walk over to the Brad and pull out a white board and do an ARR checking off T, P, or U for every critical task and then tried to pull 3 ups, 3 downs and 3 sustains out of our ass before moving on. I was unhurt and other things were more pressing to my squad leader.

>>32681973
Were you part of an ODA? I seem to recall hearing about this fuckup in 2007, or one very similar.

Completely fucked.

>>32676711
>>32679152

You guys have a source on that?

I have three
One happened in Iraq in 03. There was this ass of a Sargent in A co. Who ended up getting three 9mm to the sappy plate in his back.
Then there was this a NG combat engineer who put a load of buck shot in his buddy's side. The one that got shot was actually happy, he was going home.
Last was in training back in the states. Two strikes about 500m from each other and one opens up with a 240 and sprays the other on. No injuries just some broken equipment.

>>32689576
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqNfk5Lh8xA

Get some tissues ready fella.

>>32689726
>>32689576
Here's the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNR7oOdIKh8

Might need to chuck on russian subs then change to auto translate and whatever language you prefer.

>>32662438
>>32676062
It never happened

>>32689638
Neverserved, go fucking larp on some other board

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FF makes me sad.

>>32689890
lol it was murder

>>32690186
Friendly murder?

>>32662599
Oh my god, anon that's terrible!
Have you told anyone else yet?
Keep it down, it will be bad for morale.
As soon as we get back from the patrol tomorrow, we'll go talk to the commander okay?
He'll pay for what he did!

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>>32662599

>>32662375

Hard to radio contact when you are firing on one another and shouting at radios to get support. Americans should know that well when they have a retardedly prolific history of firing on allied vehicles despite outlines and footprints being COMPLETELY different to what they should be shooting at.

>>32682571
I can't even remember anymore. It was a live ammo range. We were doing the "I'm up, he sees me, I'm down".

Only the asshole that was too my left couldn't run straight and kept zig zagging. He got to the point he was right behind me almost. The SOI instructor ran up behind him and shoved his barrel into the dirt so he couldn't fire. Then he rabbit punched him in the back of his head even tho he was wearing a Kevlar and laid into him. I laugh about it now, but shit was pretty intense at the time.

>>32676476
If you're talking directly to aircraft you never give them your coords, you just talk them on to your position relative to the target by using references they can see.

>>32685500
If I remember correctly it was on a belt.
The guy used to clean his saw all the fucking time, OCD Thing. I think he was just distracted honestly.

>>32681973
How come I never heard of this.
No news stories, no stories from Dutch Royal Airforce people I know. Also as an addendum, all Dutch pilots on the AH-64 are trained in Fort Rucker.

>>32689242
>mounting an acog on the handguard rail so it becomes a red dot

Intredasting.

Looks like one of the battery powered ones too.

>>32690472
No, that's a 68 mounted on the quad rail. I had to keep my carry handle mounted because lol 3ID redheaded stepchild of the XVIII Airborne Corps so no BIS. We had almost nothing but M16A4s, a few M4s for key leaders. My squad had a mix of PVS-7As, yes 7A's, 7B, 7D, and a single PVS-14 for our squad leader. Anyone in the Marne division for the invasion will tell you similar stories.

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>>32689125
Bazoople

>>32691225
I always had respect for the Marines I came across in early GWOT. Ghetto as fuck equipment but getting the job done. Felt legitimately guilty as an Intel guy who had better issued kit from the Army than most the 0311s I encountered early on.

>>32692195
MARNE not Marine. As in Rock of the Marne. Motto of 3ID.

>>32676640
Found the cuck

>>32692880
Underage

>>32662920

This nigga here. I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

>>32690208
yea they fragged him

>>32689890
>>32690186
>>32690208
>>32693253
The whole theory on it was the he had celebrity status and therefore could get media coverage if he asked for it
Higher ups didn't want to someone with that kind of power because of some of the shit that happened when the war kicked off so he was taken out
If you look at the circumstances of his death they do seem sketchy but then you read this thread and can chalk it up to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

>>32673092
happens w skulls too-- how to survive a headshot. sometimes the round will go under the scalp and loop around without penetrating. so if you're getting shot at be sure to keep your forehead tight

>>32693737
he had a lot of sand in his vagina, and yet he re-enlisted
almost, but not quite, got refused on psych grounds
repeated attempts to send him to counseling
people in his unit said he was very discontent, about basically everything that was going on, in the weeks prior, and someone from his family confirmed

>>32676239
LAVs look Soviet from a distance. Everyone copying everyone else's "armored cars" has consequences.

>>32676640
>>not only he was a noncombant he could have provided intel maybe even valuable intel.

There's a legal obligation to not shoot such enemies, but that also means they'll live to fight again after they escape from Afghan prisons or otherwise make their way out.

There's no moral obligation to a spy or traitor, which the Afghan was. There's also no guarantee he'd have provided useful intel.

You have no business caring about that person unless you are an insurgent or supporter. Whose side are you on? Laws of war are like lethal injection. They allow those who believe in them to pretend unconventional cultural war can be made chivalrous. They do nothing to aid victory in cultural war. You should not confuse European sometimes-chivalrous war with Kulturkampf between Islam and the West. You may compare them to see the difference for yourself.

>>32694565
has it occurred to you that the intel you get from such a weasel could be very, very valuable?
fucking ground-pounders, I swear to fuck

>>32694565
>Hurrr just detain him while you're in the middle of the ambush he led you into I would have done so much better than some dumbass soldiers

>>32695051
I think you mean the other poster. I'd be fine with offing the problem.