Real life war games – 01 Apr 07 – Part 1
In a patch of German forest where the US 173rd Airborne Brigade are training, Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher explores their mock battlegrounds – complete with actors posing as Iraqi and Afghan villagers – and talks to US soldiers there who are finding that the real dangers of war are hard to simulate.
Tags: Actors, Airborne Brigade, Al Jazeera, Alan Fisher, Battlegrounds, Games, German Forest, Life, Life War, Part, Real, Real Games, Real War, War Games
25 Responses
stylianos75
Rap 4 actually
stylianos75
He’s right, mr. g.i. joe super recon man, see, there are some real dumbasses over there. And anyone who was brainwashed into believing that we needed to be over there to kill Haji so bush and his cronies get richer, well, theyre pretty fucking niave/ stupid too.
Kurzland
paintball meh. Airsoft better!
CaptCamping
Why dont they make these trainning in the US deserted areas? Its more hot a dry and they are at home.
Recon9143
If this is true.. I did not mean to talk bad all i seen on your comment was Cpt Douche bag and im sorry for saying something about you and im glad you served i thought you was calling him that because of how he said his name or such. Sorry
MrFlyPerfect
If you want to see the men that died that day I talk about, look at my comments on Part 2. Then google Travon Johnson and look to see who gave his eulogy. Then you will know who I am and what I’ve seen.
Little kid.
MrFlyPerfect
I spent 28 months in Afghanistan 13 months Recon, 15 months Airborne Infantry. Capt. Huge Douche Bag was my Commander for 9 of the last 15 months and 5 Soldiers in my Platoon died because of his careless decision that everyone including those that died questioned prior to the mission.
Take pictures and stop talking about things you do not know.
And if you know Joe D. tell him I said suck a dick. He knows there is blood on his hands.
Recon9143
One day when you grow up, you will see that Cpt. “Huge Douche bag” will save your life… you dumb little kid. You wouldn’t last one minute in the war, not even training..
Palfcon
Airsoft dude. The army threw out paintball and took up airsoft.
LilWiggla415
god damn shut the fuck up breh America did not want to got to iraq Bush wanted to and since he was the president you had to fallow his orders or go to prison for treasion so its not americas fault …we wanted to kill terrorist not Iraqis
7thSSDoomTrooper
I wish there were training camps like this open to public for paintball i would never leave
su35supaflanka
True that!
MrFlyPerfect
2:08 Cpt. Curtis AKA Huge Douche Bag
shadowdemonA321
and yes, i am american.
shadowdemonA321
why does everybody gotta do this diplomatic shit every time theres a video conserning any type of military? cant we just watch the frigging video instead of constantly argueing “NO us is the terrorist” “noooo their the terrorist and your a tool to them”
just quite the bullshit for once.
jklasdfjdfksl
and how am i “giving comfort to those who seek to destroy the west”; ive never endorsed terrorism or criminal war aggression regardless of the party. the fact that i condemn US terror does not automatically make me a supporter of “terrorists”, in fact if you pulled your head out of the US corporate information world, you would see that condemning terrorism is not sponsoring it; regardless of who is commiting it.
jklasdfjdfksl
thats laughable, before hussein invaded kuwait, he could do no wrong in the eyes of the US. he was given military and diplomatic support through his gassing of the kurds and the worst atrocities he committed throughout the regime. only the US’s war aggression could turn such a man into a hero.
also, how can i be a useful tool to terrorists when i am condemning US terrorism? you are sponsoring it by blindly supporting your leaders, im sure there are people like you under bin laden.
scuddycares
yup, youre either with us or against us, period. yup, you give comfort to people who seek to destroy the west. and yup, youre a useful tool for terrorists. and no, the united states is not the agressor. saddam was an agressor, ask kuwaitis, ask kurds, ask shias, ask iranians, ask israelis who live near where scuds landed. and yup, youre a god damned traitor.
jklasdfjdfksl
yup, the old .. either your with us or against us nonsense; the same kind of thinking that tricked US citizens into allowing their country to be turned into a war aggressor and terrorist state.
scuddycares
convert to islam, or face the consquences – al zawahiri, al qeadas no.2 bonehead. thats an ultimatum, not a protest of US policy. they laff their asses off and call useful idiots the people who blame bush blair americans british etc, for car bombs, suicide bombers,etc. its just what masked gunmen, extremists, taliban and al qeada wanna hear and read. you give comfort to them, and promote more attacks against civilians. youre accomplices and traitors to the civilized and free world, period.
jake0the0snake
Your Tin Foil hat is too tight, make sure you take it off for a while man.
puertoirish
coooooool
samir074
afghanistan is afghanistan
MustafaPresents
I mean, don’t the Americans have enough real wars to practice in?
Kirbytime
lol Afghanistan im Deutschland? Nein!!!!!!!!