Hokie4824

Here's some good combat footage from Iraq 2004. The caption says 4th Cavalry Div, but obviously I think they mean 4th Cav which is with 1st ID if I'm correct. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sijb1TRi6zM

Good words HT, and you hit it more on the point then I did.

Haha, thanks Hot Tom. I will I wrote most of those remarks with a hot head, but I still think that the American soldier is stereotyped a little unfairly, at least from what I gathered from that clip. I mean, Audie Murphy didn't listen to rap music when he went on his patrols and play Grand Theft Auto. Yes, culture has changed, but I think Americans have always had a sense of fighting in them. Plus good training doesn't hurt...

So from what I'm getting from the clip...most US soldiers are ex-gang members from the street who are used to killing... "They killed well in Iraq..."..It sounds like living on the streets of the hood made them that way, not training your muscle memory to shoot lighting fast with an M-4 carbine with CCO for months/years. (I thought the part about "A presidential sex scandal" funny, like that supposedly helped to turn us into killers) Now I know that some soldiers (many in fact) grow up "jadded" like that, but I grew up in the mountains and farmlands of Pennsylvania, reading about Audie Murphy while learning to shoot (responsibly) from my dad, as have thousands of others in other rural areas. I can't up but feel stereotyped and insulted by that clip.

Another good book is Thunder Run, which is about the US 3rd ID's armored push in Baghdad in April 2003. Very good read, I just finished it yesterday.

Though its already been said many times, thank you! This is AWESOME!:luxhello: