I don't know if I'd qualify as "forces" but I have spent a little time behind a machine gun... I'd guess it's because he's just laying down suppressing fire and not shooting at a specific target.
I'd say that was a "Made for TV" movie myself. Everyone wandering around with steel pots off, standing up on an open roof, and NO evidence of bullets coming their way. If there had been you'd have heard them cracking. I'm thinking maybe that's a night vision scope he took off. I could be wrong. I don't know what they have today.
1) Guy is adjusting a friggin camera to film himself during combat? I don't get it. Pretty dumb. 2) No metal lid on his head. 3) Guy runs in front of the shooter and hangs out over the edge of the building like a moron to get what I dont know.. 4) Guys standing straight up on the roof without any concern with getting their butts shot. 5) Guys walking around outside of cover as people are "taking random shots at us"--dumb
While I was not in SF, and I never made it to Afghanistan, I was in the middle east for 27 months total while in the service. First, it should be noted that those guys in the video were not SF either. Second, they were not shooting training rounds. Those were live rounds heading down range. Third, I did indeed hear incoming fire, but not much of it. Now, the incoming fire was coming from too far away to be called aimed fire. It was spray and pray and sounded different than our boys firepower. The area looked authentic to me, but again, I never made it to Afghanistan. As far as videoing during combat, it was an extremely low level event, and they couldn't even see the enemy. The video SHOULD be used during an After Action Report, which examines everything about an event, whether good or bad. There is a lot to go over, and some of you have already pointed it out. Also, we haven't used steel pots since the Vietnam conflict. Our helmets are made of spun Kevlar, which is why they are called a "Kevlar". They are no good for digging with, cooking in, or sitting on, because they will crack. A Kevlar really only works against blunt force trauma or glancing impact from bullets. A straight-on shot will go through with relative ease. Mostly, a Kevlar reduces your field of vision, and partially covers your ears, which reduces your ability to hear. That may or may not be a bad thing in combat. Newer versions of the Kevlar, called the PASGT, do not cover any of the ear and do not come down so low on the brow. I never had one of those. As far as the moron getting in front of the machine gunner we were watching, it may not be as stupid as would seem at first glance. The gunner should have been given a field of fire by his leadership, which he is not allowed to cross out of. The other soldier may have been outside the gunners field of fire. It looks to me that left of the second guy is where the second rooftop was. Yes, they were "taking incoming", but there was no evidence anything was impacting their building. Having watched that part of the video several times, I have concluded they second guy was grabbing his own ammo. As far as not taking cover (the guys milling around on both rooftops), the incoming fire seems to have shifted away from them at that point. Yeah, I saw a lot of dumb stuff in the video, but nothing to make me think it was fake. Edit: Forgot to address the original question for this thread. The scope LOOKS to be a AN/PVS-22 UNS (Universal Night Sight) which is a very nice low-light device, so it would have been useless in that firefight.
To me it looks as if he was laying down fire at first. Then realized his optic wasnt "sighted in" so he started suppressive fire. Then he just removed the optic in order to use the iron sights.
I really dont know. Theres alot wrong to me in that video. Im on a 240 L gun team, and when we were deployed and when we train its not like that. I don't know why he didnt have atleast the AG from his team there helping him walk on to targets. Then not wearing his kevlar... I dont know. When we were on top of a mountain at an OP we were trying to stay cool and had our kevlar off. Shots went over our head and the first thing we did was put on our kevlar then start firing back. I guess he just didnt need his optic. Ive never used those so I dont know. We just have 145's on ours. Now I wanna watch some of my old videos.
haha I just got back from AF and I know exactly what he was doing there.....he moved the sights so he could see his tracers better it also the reason hes not using sights. And for the ones that said his sight looks like a night sight prolly right. Also many guys video taped combat while I was there, some of the heavier stuff no but some things "light" like this yes. Although I do not believe in video any thing like that, even with sparatic fire and long ranges you have to keep your head in the game anything can happen at any time when people are desperatly trying to kill you.
