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I'm always surprised like at this level it still seems some people absolutely want to fire there weapons; whereas I would say the more secret a mission is, the
by doe88 1y ago
I'm always surprised like at this level it still seems some people absolutely want to fire there weapons; whereas I would say the more secret a mission is, the more experience you have, the more training you have and you should have understood that killing people and making noises was not the goal of the mission... It should be more teached it seems, sometimes there is operational value in not killing people.
- andrewflnr 1y agoHow are you getting that from this story? They thought they had been discovered, and panicked. Pretty simple. Morality aside, staying quiet doesn't help your stealth if your enemy already has a flashlight pointed at you.
- lifeformed 1y agoHow could they have panicked? Surely this would've been a scenario that would've been planned for. I assume they would've trained for the crazy situation of encountering North Koreans in North Korea.
- andrewflnr 1y agoWhat do you think the plan was for "the North Korean military has already found us and is trying to capture or kill us?"
- lifeformed 1y agoRetreat? This isn't a war, you can't just drop into another country and start killing people. At no point was it morally or legally justified to have engaged in combat in this situation. At the very least they need to verify it was a military target, and even then it's not justified.
- andrewflnr 1y agoI'm not disagreeing with any of that. But any plan they had clearly did disagree. Context, please.
- infoseek12 1y agoWhat surprises me is that they had the mini subs door open and bright lights on inside. This seems like surprisingly poor light discipline.
- davidguetta 1y agoyeah this part is insane. you make a stealth sub but its all ligths out in the middle of the sea you're trying to infiltrate lol
- tasuki 1y ago> It should be more teached it seems, sometimes there is operational value in not killing people. You're probably not a native speaker: the proper past tense of teach is "taught". And you're of course right! I'm also an outsider to the US. It seems to me that "kill first think later" is the modus operandi of all kinds of US armed forces, from the police to the army and the navy.
- davidguetta 1y agothey fired because one possibility was that the boat was NK police / military and the underwater dudes didn't have means to defend themselves. i'm pretty sure this was the plan in case they got caught : kill everybody and flee