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Marcus Luttrell explains how, injured & alone, he got through enemy's hills with Matt Laurer
Most here know Marcus and if you don't I suggest you read this
or better yet buy his book:
Lone Survivor - The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Here's exceprts from his book:
p. 203. …Was I afraid of their possible buddies in the Taliban? No. Was I afraid of the liberal media back in the U.S.A.? Yes. And I suddenly flashed on the prospect of many, many years in a U.S. civilian jail alongside murderers and rapists.
p. 206. I looked Mikey right in the eye, and I said, “We gotta let ‘em go.”
It was the stupidest, most southern-fried, lame brained decision I ever made in my life. I must have been out of my mind. I had actually cast a vote which I knew could sign our death warrant. I’d turned into a fucking liberal, a half-assed, no-logic nitwit, all heart, no brain, and the judgment of a jackrabbit.
UPDATE: Not all are happy about his book and even claim some condrictions.
... and the Democratic underground are having a hay day
But to stay on point,
Some of what Marcus and Matt discuss are the ROE (Rules of Engagement).
Can't tell you how many stories I've read in the blogosphere or heard while visiting guys at Kleber about the Fk'd up ROE and how their buddies aren't hear to talk about it.
Now ROE have been around since the Revolutionary War and are necessary but isn't it about time they change these current restrictive rules and let our guys do their damn job?
I'm just saying. T.A.R.F.U.
Col Hunt has some thoughts here
Hunt says while visiting Iraq recently, he observed rules of engagement that required seven separate steps before a soldier at a guard post could engage the enemy. The last step, he notes, states that if the enemy runs away, the soldier does not have to go after him. <...> [The existing rules of engagement] have hamstrung our soldiers to the point where you've got the British, who had to ask permission to fire on Iranians who are taking captive their soldiers, and were told no. ...The Marines have got this problem in Al Anbar Province ... and the Army's got this problem all over the place, from Afghanistan to here. ... We have forgotten how to fight. This is nasty business we're in, and we seem unwilling or unable to do that.
Col. Hunt also has a good read : On the Hunt: How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror
Hopefully someone in Washington reads it.
