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I wanna see an episode of Life's Too Short where they remake Willow and cast Peter Dinklage instead.

What bothers me about this is what I've seen first hand. We were in a mountainous region near a key infiltration route into Afghanistan from Pakistan. The borders get fuzzy, there's constant movement back and forth, essentially the same dudes.

Depending on who you talked to, every single person that we ever killed, ever, was completely 100% innocent. We'd find em dead, gun in hand wearing a camo top but he would never fight - not in a million years would he do that. Never. We literally found a video on a body that showed a dude chopping off someone's head so we snatched the dude up. Guess what? How dare we arrest an innocent man that would never have anything to do with terrorism. We'd raid a house, find RPGs, camo, PKMs, ammo etc. Dude was totally innocent.

They'd fire mortars at us, they don't even fucking have sights on those things - they eyeball that shit. Kills people all the time. What does Al Jazeera say - Americans kill civilians.

They'd put their wives and fucking children on their roofs and fire at us from their widows because they didn't give a shit about their safety and knew we wouldn't want to kill them.

I'm so sick of hearing this bullshit.

E: goddamn journalists with an agenda take a fucking field trip to these places, talk to some locals through a terp and take their bullshit at face value because it supports that agenda. Then people wonder why the military doesn't trust journalists.

Yes, it's very accurate. I've seen it, I was on Rock Avalanche and I'm in the book "War" that Junger wrote.

It's rough. Walking those mountains every day wears on you, the constant threat of getting shot wears on you, the boredom wears on you. The brotherhood keeps you alive, not only that it makes it the happiest time of your life. The fight gets in your blood and you love it, then someone you love gets hurt and you hate it. It's a constant shift from the absolute best feelings a human can feel to the absolute worst.

I like it because it gives little* history tidbits, not because it's a realistic pawn shop experience.

They did get their island back by paying the Iron price for it though