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I‘ve never been especially fond of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers; although they both did have thier moments, just the whole "War is a one sided video game" setting both movie/series seems to have really bothers me. I mean, maybe if the Germans sent in thier Comm Reservist to the front line, it would be the case, but in both movies, there always seems to be the general trend that:
-Americans either have some sort of magical implant in thier eyes that makes them have perfect aim, especially when firing full auto from the hip or that they have some sort of high tech "Kraut seeking" bullets that home in on all Germans when fired in thier general direction
-Germans are unable to fire thier weapons until they‘ve ran head first into a line of Americans that are firing at them; and when they do, the only time they can ever hit the Americans is if they are firing full auto at a whole bunch of them standing close together.
I don‘t know, but not having watched Saving Private Ryan in about a year, I decided to watch it today (I skipped all the parts where blind nationalism is used to make the fallen soldiers seem like martyrs). I finished watchign Band of Brothers a week ago, and I couldn‘t help but have some questions, that maybe the combat arms people might have the answers for, like:
-If you fire 50 rounds from a machine gun, say an MG42 commonly used in the German army during WWII, do you have to change the barrel?
-If you‘re rushing a machine gun nest, do you and 7 others run in closly grouped pairs at it‘s flanks and straight towards it until it has to change it‘s barrel then throw grenades at it?
-Don‘t the section attacks we are supposed to do in the CF envolve working in pairs of sections, squads and teams, offering suppresive fire so that one pair is always fire, and one pair is always advancing, until the section (or what‘s left of it) is close enough that one team can toss a ‘nade into the trench and run in, unloading an entire mag full auto at any survivors.
-If you‘re doing urban combat, do you run into a city in large groups along the the sides of streets? When the guys in front of you start taking fire from machine guns, snipers, etc, do you and everyone beside you run to where they got shot or do you try to find where the shots came from, and eliminate them before proceeding
-Is hitting two seperate target at 100m semi/full automatic very easy to do when firing at the hip?
I have more, but I have class in half an hour. I‘ll post them when I get back
-Americans either have some sort of magical implant in thier eyes that makes them have perfect aim, especially when firing full auto from the hip or that they have some sort of high tech "Kraut seeking" bullets that home in on all Germans when fired in thier general direction
-Germans are unable to fire thier weapons until they‘ve ran head first into a line of Americans that are firing at them; and when they do, the only time they can ever hit the Americans is if they are firing full auto at a whole bunch of them standing close together.
I don‘t know, but not having watched Saving Private Ryan in about a year, I decided to watch it today (I skipped all the parts where blind nationalism is used to make the fallen soldiers seem like martyrs). I finished watchign Band of Brothers a week ago, and I couldn‘t help but have some questions, that maybe the combat arms people might have the answers for, like:
-If you fire 50 rounds from a machine gun, say an MG42 commonly used in the German army during WWII, do you have to change the barrel?
-If you‘re rushing a machine gun nest, do you and 7 others run in closly grouped pairs at it‘s flanks and straight towards it until it has to change it‘s barrel then throw grenades at it?
-Don‘t the section attacks we are supposed to do in the CF envolve working in pairs of sections, squads and teams, offering suppresive fire so that one pair is always fire, and one pair is always advancing, until the section (or what‘s left of it) is close enough that one team can toss a ‘nade into the trench and run in, unloading an entire mag full auto at any survivors.
-If you‘re doing urban combat, do you run into a city in large groups along the the sides of streets? When the guys in front of you start taking fire from machine guns, snipers, etc, do you and everyone beside you run to where they got shot or do you try to find where the shots came from, and eliminate them before proceeding
-Is hitting two seperate target at 100m semi/full automatic very easy to do when firing at the hip?
I have more, but I have class in half an hour. I‘ll post them when I get back