Us Forces Covering Up Casualty Stats
CplDavis
I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">by using expendable mercenaries</div> There have been some "unofficial" rumors that the US military used Foreigners to fight in special units in Iraq. By joining some of these combat units they would be granted full US citizenship.
What they wernt told was that they would basically be the "expendables". B/c they were technically not US soldiers they would not be counted as US casualties when they were killed. They were simply buried out in the desert. One news camera man who was taking pictures of the burial was "accidentaly" shot and killed.
And his film was taken, however people are still looking for those pictures or any other pictures from other similar incidentss
Anyone know anything more to this story, or if its even real?
What they wernt told was that they would basically be the "expendables". B/c they were technically not US soldiers they would not be counted as US casualties when they were killed. They were simply buried out in the desert. One news camera man who was taking pictures of the burial was "accidentaly" shot and killed.
And his film was taken, however people are still looking for those pictures or any other pictures from other similar incidentss
Anyone know anything more to this story, or if its even real?
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US Special Forces, at least Green Berets, I'm not sure about SEALs and Force Recon, will go into a country such as Iraq or Afghanistan, recruit and equip locals which are refered to as "Indigenious Forces."
In the 2.0 patch of America's Army, there will be a new Special Forces feature. Only a certain amount of team members will be US SF. The rest are the Indigenious Forces.
It isn't something the Army keeps a secret. Why risk the lives of the absolute creme of your military when you have the chance to use locals? A 6 man Beret team will usually accompany the 12-24 man squad of IF.
Delta Force, to my knowledge, does not do this. But Delta is used for recon gathering usually.
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Lie. Probably coming from an opponent of the war.
1) Why would you use a regular grunt? A marine. A soldier. There are MANY of them. 1 would prolly blab.
2) There are not any new reports near any of the SF teams. Green Berets prefer to work with out anyone else. Even Armor support. And the US Government would not allow any news team imbedded with the SF teams.
These reports were of el salvadorians and other people not iraqis and locals. transported out there, given rudimentary training and then sent int to urban areas to take the death ticket for a real US soldier so we can keep our offical casualty count down, b/c these people dont count.
oh well who knows
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Well gee.. that's never been done before!! *cough Bay of Pigs*
Like I said, why risk our hides when some of them volunteer to do it.
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the closest thing I've seen as far as "reports" of any SF troops in the War on Terror were pictures of Green Berets riding camels (under full clothing cover, including face) in Afghanistan almost two years ago.
The only thing I can think of that is remotely near this is our dealing with the Kurds in the north. We integrated some of them, but said we can't guarantee they'll be top priority for cover if they start something alone. That and we couldn't guarantee they'd not get chewed up by artillery if they moved too far ahead of us. Ended up being a non-issue but /shrug. They conducted themselves pretty well overall.