RE:RecondoJoe

[RecondoJoe]

Originally Posted by Snortles Chortles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

how many confirmed al qaeda kills do u haV?

There’s no such thing as a confirmed kill. A lot of times you don’t even know if you actually shot someone or not. Had someone fire an RPG at me once when I was behind a 240B. RPG was way over my head, but directly at my humvee. Instantly disengaged the safety and returned fire. It had come from behind a parked car.

Didn’t give it much thought until a few months later when the USA decided they would write checks to pay for collateral damages. One of the houses we stopped at was the same house where I had shot up that car. The man probably had no clue I was the person who shot it up.

He was angry, and I started getting angry when the translator said the guy implied that we shot it for no reason which irked me because I knew who ever owned that car was in on it and they tried to kill me. I got mad and left the house. Here we are handing my tax dollars to someone who tried to kill me. A few moments later, our translator comes out and says that the guy confirmed that I had shot and killed 3 of his sons during that incident.

Had no clue. I felt really confident that I had aimed in the right area for where the RPG came from, and it’s like.... you would think that who ever fired it died, but when you don’t see a body, you don’t believe it. Turns out I got an entire trio of insurgents without a clue in the world.

Have a lot of moments like those where I never know for sure whether or not I hit the person I was shooting at or not. It’s been so long now that it doesn’t even feel real anymore.

[Woke Locc]

Originally Posted by RecondoJoe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There’s no such thing as a confirmed kill. A lot of times you don’t even know if you actually shot someone or not. Had someone fire an RPG at me once when I was behind a 240B. RPG was way over my head, but directly at my humvee. Instantly disengaged the safety and returned fire. It had come from behind a parked car.

Didn’t give it much thought until a few months later when the USA decided they would write checks to pay for collateral damages. One of the houses we stopped at was the same house where I had shot up that car. The man probably had no clue I was the person who shot it up.

He was angry, and I started getting angry when the translator said the guy implied that we shot it for no reason which irked me because I knew who ever owned that car was in on it and they tried to kill me. I got mad and left the house. Here we are handing my tax dollars to someone who tried to kill me. A few moments later, our translator comes out and says that the guy confirmed that I had shot and killed 3 of his sons during that incident.

Had no clue. I felt really confident that I had aimed in the right area for where the RPG came from, and it’s like.... you would think that who ever fired it died, but when you don’t see a body, you don’t believe it. Turns out I got an entire trio of insurgents without a clue in the world.

Have a lot of moments like those where I never know for sure whether or not I hit the person I was shooting at or not. It’s been so long now that it doesn’t even feel real anymore.

That might be a good example of soft power: small payments to the families of terrorists we killed to mollify them going forward.

Probably cheaper than forcible conquest

[hobart]

Originally Posted by RecondoJoe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There’s no such thing as a confirmed kill. A lot of times you don’t even know if you actually shot someone or not. Had someone fire an RPG at me once when I was behind a 240B. RPG was way over my head, but directly at my humvee. Instantly disengaged the safety and returned fire. It had come from behind a parked car.

Didn’t give it much thought until a few months later when the USA decided they would write checks to pay for collateral damages. One of the houses we stopped at was the same house where I had shot up that car. The man probably had no clue I was the person who shot it up.

He was angry, and I started getting angry when the translator said the guy implied that we shot it for no reason which irked me because I knew who ever owned that car was in on it and they tried to kill me. I got mad and left the house. Here we are handing my tax dollars to someone who tried to kill me. A few moments later, our translator comes out and says that the guy confirmed that I had shot and killed 3 of his sons during that incident.

Had no clue. I felt really confident that I had aimed in the right area for where the RPG came from, and it’s like.... you would think that who ever fired it died, but when you don’t see a body, you don’t believe it. Turns out I got an entire trio of insurgents without a clue in the world.

Have a lot of moments like those where I never know for sure whether or not I hit the person I was shooting at or not. It’s been so long now that it doesn’t even feel real anymore.

I had almost the exact same thing happen to me. Except instead of shooting like a pussy, I took of my shirt and charged in with only two Gerber StrongArms. Sent 14 of them straight to hell that day... Then I got a job trimming hedges or something because that really gets the ladies moist.

[TheSurgeon]

Originally Posted by RecondoJoe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There’s no such thing as a confirmed kill. A lot of times you don’t even know if you actually shot someone or not. Had someone fire an RPG at me once when I was behind a 240B. RPG was way over my head, but directly at my humvee. Instantly disengaged the safety and returned fire. It had come from behind a parked car.

Didn’t give it much thought until a few months later when the USA decided they would write checks to pay for collateral damages. One of the houses we stopped at was the same house where I had shot up that car. The man probably had no clue I was the person who shot it up.

He was angry, and I started getting angry when the translator said the guy implied that we shot it for no reason which irked me because I knew who ever owned that car was in on it and they tried to kill me. I got mad and left the house. Here we are handing my tax dollars to someone who tried to kill me. A few moments later, our translator comes out and says that the guy confirmed that I had shot and killed 3 of his sons during that incident.

Had no clue. I felt really confident that I had aimed in the right area for where the RPG came from, and it’s like.... you would think that who ever fired it died, but when you don’t see a body, you don’t believe it. Turns out I got an entire trio of insurgents without a clue in the world.

Have a lot of moments like those where I never know for sure whether or not I hit the person I was shooting at or not. It’s been so long now that it doesn’t even feel real anymore.

Ohh Jesus. Here we go again.

So you was a scout? But now you was a gunner too? Cool. Cool.

I see. I see. So now scouts are the ones who make house calls, not... ohh... you know, not regular line infantry platoon sergeants and platoon leaders with a squad of people or the whole platoon. Nope. Just Joe and his interpreter who reports to him. And then Joe decides he's going to leave the house. Because that's how that works...

It's not for anyone who was confused.

Killed one person through a wall. I've heard that story before. Ohh it happens. But not with Joe. Joe killed him three Hadjis that day without even knowing it. A whole day of fire fightin, and he rolled up in the humvee and laid down the slaughter. But wasn't he recon? Wasn't he a tummy time soldier? Hmmm. I think he just consumes other stories and makes them bigger.


This fella has been in so many firefights and engagements, and just kills for fun. Then after that he decided to become a big bad EQ troll.

[RecondoJoe]

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[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by TheSurgeon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ohh Jesus. Here we go again.

The only thing I got out of that story is that he received incoming fire and panicked. Without having any clear targets and in a zone he knew to be full of civilians he fired his weapon blindly. His rounds failed to hit the unseen RPG operator but instead penetrated the house.

He did not report to command his failure to properly secure the scene after the engagement and was thus unable to verify if there were any casualties or of what type, making claims of civilian casualties unverifiable.

Later he became angry when confronted with his actions and without any further proof labelled the alleged victims as insurgents.

He also admitted to frequently discharging his weapon at targets he was unable to identify or effectively engage.

This fucking thing reads like an Article 32 hearing transcript, don't it?

[TheSurgeon]

This one time, I was a super soldier. And then this one time, I was afraid of elves who might doxx me. And then this one time I convinced myself I wasn't autistic.

[Woke Locc]

Originally Posted by TheSurgeon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This one time, I was a super soldier. And then this one time, I was afraid of elves who might doxx me. And then this one time I convinced myself I wasn't autistic.

What's the plot of ff7 got to do with anything?

[Skarne]

...you’re really latching onto that poag thing aren’t ya little guy?

[TheSurgeon]

It's so cute. He'd try to refute anything else, but can't, because he hasn't yet read a rebuttal on any of the military forums.

Let's give a little lesson for FakeSoldierElfJoe.

Scouts, in humvees, with mounted weapons, would most likely have SAWs or .50Cals. Not 240s. Two forties are for line platoons. There are two in each platoon, between that AGs, FOs, they make up the weapons squad.

When a mission is given to go out there and win them some hearts and minds, the platoon leader, or platoon sergeant, heads on out with his men and goes along with RTO, interpreter, and maybe a single squad. Never weapons squad. Weapons squad stays on the fucking humvee pulling security, and never a mission have I seen where they spoke with interpreters. So, somewhere along the line Joe morphed from a gunner to a platoon leader, to someone who could just say, "no fuck this I'm out", and throw a temper tantrum and leave a house he was under orders to speak with.

But please, go on about my preference for phonetic'n an acronym to make it more readable to how it was audible.

I'm truly sorry you were too inbred to be accepted as an actual soldier. Maybe in your next life you won't come back as a little off centered boy with a father-uncle.