Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The Marine

The new training center is at the heart of a new effort not only to give troops a heightened sense of the sights, sounds, and smells of Iraq surroundings but also to teach them some hard and fast ethics and training lessons so there wont be any more deaths ih the area and in till American leave Iraq. As a Camp Pendleton-based marine faces court-martial this month in connection with the 2005 Haditha killing of 24 civilians, including women and children, the Marine Corps is increasingly aware of the need to prevent lapses like before and replaces stressed-out troops with new fresh troop coming to the area. That can result in a lower death rate of bystanders and marines and not turn the Iraqis families against American forces and other forces and help them against the terrorist organization in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the trainers project house an image of a fighting insurgent and a women and children can get caught in the soldiers way who is about to enter the house or a room and add to the confusion, the insurgent might be standing in front of a wall that leads into a bedroom with kids in it. Even if the troops shoot straight hitting the insurgent but the bullet can go though the insurgent and still through the wall and injuring a child or a woman in the next room. If they know what they are doing, they will take them out by shoot there knee or wound them bad so the insurgent wont shoot back.

the troops who train here also wrestle with the decision to shoot a woman with a gun or a bomb in their hand or strep to them because a female suicide bomber can walks up to them and detonates an explosive vest and kills the marine and civilians.

1 comment:

Zach B said...

This is informative Spence. I like this topic seeing as it deals with us all in a way and not just one person. I hope your researching continues to go as planned, have fun with it man.