[–] BearDolphin1488 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
i dont understand the question////
[–] TripleZ 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Do other members of the military look down on guys who play dead to avoid being killed by the enemy?
Say your perimeter is being over run and you pull a body on top of you so you look like just another corpse. You could fight instead but that will guarantee you are killed though fighting might take out one or two enemy soldiers out in the process.
[–] iamabrokenbanjo 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The answer to that is yes. Combat forces are trained to fight until they can't, and dudes who can't handle that level of living are weeded out quickly. They are then they taught how to survive captivity without being a little bitch if captured. If you play dead, its to get the element of surprise and redevelop a plan to shoot, evade, find cover/concealment, call in reinforcements, and if you've run out of ammo and are surrounded, to surrender while saving face to retain dignity while in captivity.
[–] RedditSureDoesSuck [S] ago
Glad I missed you.
[–] BearDolphin1488 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
oh, this fag. okay, your question is retarded then. so are you asking me if i came upon an enemy who was pretending to be dead, would i think there would be stigma attached? what a fucking stupid question...
i carried a frag grenade becasue i was never going to be taken alive. i wasn't gonna end up getting my head sawed off on camera like some soy boy. does that answer your stupid question ?
[–] Phantom42 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Though I'm not in the military, I've got a fuckload of friends in or that were in various militaries (US Army and Marine Corps of the Israeli Foreign Legion, Bundeswehr, Australian Emu Defence Corps, British Armed License Forces, Swiss Neutrality Enforcement Corps)...
Anyhow, I've actually heard that same question brought up with several of them, and basically quoting them... That question is so specific nobody really thinks about it, but it's so vague it doesn't really make it answerable. If you're in a firefight against Hajji and his cousin Al-Hajjim, and about ten of their friends, and it's you and eight guys... Yeah, that's fucking stupid and literal cowardice. Shoot back for fuck's sake.
However, say you're in a situation like Battlefield 3 where something happens and you're completely broken in a hostile city. In that case, do whatever the fuck you can to survive. You're worth more than the dude that's already a corpse, even behind enemy lines. Hell, you may even be able to cause a little mayhem of your own with little to no risk for you. None that wasn't already there anyway.
If your FOB is overrun by a superior force and all that, yeah, you could play dead. Thing is, playing dead is probably not the brightest thing to do unless the enemy doesn't have time to clean up. If they get to cleaning up, you're basically fucked anyway and should have gone down fighting.
It's very situational my guy. And unless you're doing it under "common sensically stupid" kind of circumstances, there's really no stigma because it's not really something a fighter thinks about. They're usually focused on killing the guys after them before playing dead becomes viable.
[–] RedditSureDoesSuck [S] ago
I appreciate the answer. I reason I specified soldiers is because I think they will share things with their fellows that they won't with even their best of friends. People who haven't been in war just don't have the same understanding.
[–] BjornIronside 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The battlefield is very much like Vegas.
[–] Phantom42 ago
Shoot, shut up, and let the spooks handle the mass killings.
[–] RedditSureDoesSuck [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Great analogy. Is that what they tell you in the service? I mean that's a very forgiving viewpoint, so I can see how soldiers would say that to one another. Still, I would think that some things you'd be judged for.
[–] BjornIronside 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Entire villages disappeared in the Vietnam conflict.
Vegas.