"No man left behind"

Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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What are your thoughts on this?

A friendly is killed in action, should we be concerned with retrieving his body?

Is it worth the possible expense of more soldiers?

 
postedup610

postedup610

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Why should other peoples families lose their loved ones, just so we can say there is something in a box at the funeral?
Seems like one step forward, yet 3 steps backwards.
*Not trying to be disrespectful or unpatriotic...Just stating an opinion. Thanks to all the veterans who have served this country.
 
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Hemlock

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I know is sounds crazy but when the lead starts flying and you get that heightened sense of oh fuck I might get killed here. Its comforting to know that your fellow Marine are not gonna let ya fukin lay there and let ya get picked over and fucked with by the enemy.
 
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ChesusRice

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Interesting story of a soldier who had a live RPG hit him.
It didnt detonate and was stuck inside him
Procedure is not to bring him back to operating base but put him to the side
In other words let him basically die

His fellow soldiers said fuck that
They helicoptered him back to base and removed the live round
He is alive today and everyone involved is grateful
 
Saerimmner

Saerimmner

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The thing with it is though generally the men are not ordered to go get the body back but do so off their own backs for their friend and his family, ive got friends in all branches off the British forces and more than a few of them have told an officer where to go when told " retrieving the body is too risky" and just gone anyway
 
wyteberrywidow

wyteberrywidow

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Hemlock said:
I know is sounds crazy but when the lead starts flying and you get that heightened sense of oh fuck I might get killed here. Its comforting to know that your fellow Marine are not gonna let ya fukin lay there and let ya get picked over and fucked with by the enemy.
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NOt for nothing I was going to say the same thing.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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I'm a former Marine. We never leave our dead behind. Or not for long. Freaked the US Army out in Korea as the grunts pulled our frozen dead out by the feet as they retreated. Dragged the corpses for miles in some cases. There are pics of it. The Frozen Chosin. The Chosin Reservoir. But the grunt in Libya would tell you to screw that and not risk a brother Marine coming for his now-lifeless body. Semper Fi. Do or die.
 
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