They're trained to remain calm under pressure. Would you rather they scream like bitches and start crying?
No it just doesn't seem like they're really under pressure at all. Chillin back in their birdy, scopin out things they want to kill.
Seems pretty clear with their opinion on whats going on and rational thinking. They identify targets, they identify possible weapons and they get clearance to fire. Aren't under definate attack? Yeah Arkahn maybe they should let the guy with the possible RPG shoot them down. Then they surely would be under definate attack but ah f*ck it's to late, they're shot down and dead.
Alot of things look like weapons in black and white when you're up in the air including those kodaks the photographers have.
. Maybe they should have gotten a better look. It is just like the "arrows telling us what we want to see". One guy goes OMG RPG, and the other, itchin to shoot a bitch, goes YAH MAN, I SEE IT TOO, KILL EM!
Id figure it makes more sense to identify definite targets, not possible ones. Everyone looks like a possible enemy. Why don't they just fly the chopper around and blow everything up. Possible problems all solved, right?
Drop a big ol bomb on the place. All potential problems gone! No possibility for possible problems, since you just wasted everyone. Woo! GET SOME.
Again, the guy peerin around the corner didn't take a shot, but could have, IF that was an RPG.. And when they circled around, and now, this is just me takin a guess here, but ... you'd figure if he was fixin to blow the helicopter down, he would have positioned himself to take a shot instead of standing around chit chatting with the rest of them.. I don't know about you, but it seems like the people on the ground are aware of the helicopters and don't feel threatened. If they were threatened or hostile, I don't think they'd be standing around so calmly out in the open. Unless you think they're trained to just chill out on corners when they're under pressure.
cause again, remember, these were photographers in the cluster? With more photographer/reporters following a few blocks away? For all we AND the helicopter people know, that guy could have been carrying a tripod.
was it being an RPG confirmed? Did the ground troops confirm it? Did they confirm it was a hostile band? Why the attempted cover up?
If you trained for the last 10 years of your life to do exactly what they did, wouldn't you be excited? Oh wait, you haven't nor would you know.
Excited to shoot people? Doubtful! More like, nervous, not looking forward to it, not wanting to be there. Also, I doubt anyones trained to blow up a rescue van, especially with kids inside. If they can identify guns from far away, they should be able to spot kids in a van.
Blowing up vans picking up bodies is the kinda shit some 15 year old hopped up on mt. dew does in a FPS.
So a few guys at your school you didn't like went off to war while you sat at home and jerked off then the entire army must be like that. Enjoy the freedom they provide us all while you sit here and criticize them. You should be proud man.
really? now you're going to make this all personal? Thats cool I guess. I've seen enough war footage over the past 10 years of this Iraq bullshit to know that a whole mess of people really are out of touch with things. This isn't the same kind of glorious war time footage that makes one feel proud to be American. Most of the locals who are back in the states, were and still are disrespectful, racist dickbags that talk about how cool it is to shoot at people.. I'm sure its not a localized thing. Plenty more of them all over the place. Ohio isn't some unique place.
as for "freedom", sorry. They're not out there protecting my freedom, as it isn't exactly threatened in the way they all like to make us think it is.. Last I checked, the people involved with that are all veterans now, old folks. respectful even. The kind that will tell you how messed up war is, and how rough it is to kill someone. Not trigger happy numbnuts up in helicopters, begging to unload their gun on some dudes standing on a corner.
I'm not proud to be an American. not anymore. Over the past decade or so, we've turned into one disaster of a country. Racism, fatasses, lazy idiots, greedy morons, the list just keeps on growing. Watching Cops is like watching a giant "LOL, America" meme on the internet.
Id like to know where we went wrong,
Umm yeah, that's the point of being in a heli, to get the jump on them before they kill you.
Who's they? The people on the ground doing nothing threatening? That guy with the RPG definitely could have shot the thing, again, IF it is one.
also, isn't the main point of being in a helicopter to scout out areas, and have freedom of transportation? Loud ass helicopters arent exactly stealthy or anything. You can hear one from a mile away, and they stick out like a sore thumb up in a clear blue sky in the daytime.
Well if you watch it again, at the time the guy with what appears to be an RPG is peeking around a corner with no time for the heli to fire unless they were going to fire through the roof of the building to hit him. Which in all fairness would still kill him but also kill anyone in the building.
well, if the guy peering around the corner was fixin to kill, why didn't he take a shot? Why didnt he position himself for a shot when the helicopter swooped around the other way? He had plenty of time to launch a doomrocket at the helicopter.
