“I believe deeply in second chances,” Democrat Jordan Wood told The Advocate. “But what I saw was someone who doesn’t understand what’s wrong with these statements."
Pretty sure I stated that it doesn’t make him a nazi. Just incompetent or not anti-fascist are also perfectly fine explanations, and both alternative explanations make him far from an ideal candidate for such a high-ranking position.
Also, he is a war criminal. By his own admission. And said its the thing he’s most proud about his time in the military.
The post where he brags about shooting a machine gun nearly straight up into the air in the city where they were afraid they might accidentally shoot themselves due to low accuracy, so they even took cover and said they had now clue if they actually were hitting their targets and finishes with “One of the things I’m most proud about having been part of”
Ok, so since I have intimate knowledge of how all of the systems in this description work, let me tell you what you are reading.
It is not a war crime.
The battalion commander, who later DID green light use of mortars at targeted locations, pinpointed by audio triangulation from incoming fire detection systems; did not want to use the higher explosive yield of a mortar in urban areas.
Marines are still absolutely permitted to use indirect fire weapons on indirect fire targets, such as a 40mm grenade. These hav a much smaller yield and casualty causing radius.
To ensure they could still engage the locations actively being pinpointed by the incoming fire warning system, they mounted a 40mm grenade launcher to a mount to use instead.
His post is literally them doing all the due diligence and work to calculate return fire trajectories so they were accurate on the mapped targets, not indiscriminate fire.
There is not only no war crime here, he actively describes all the work that went into making the return fire suppression lower yield in explosives and how to make it as accurate as possible.
You might as well just copy and pasted his explanation. Shooting in a city where you can’t even be certain you aren’t shooting yourself 100s of meters away from your target and not caring if you are even hitting your target or just something close enough to them is absolutely a war crime (not making any legal claim).
You can be certain you are not firing at one’s self by mere simple trigonometry.
The rest of what you are saying is made up or misunderstanding the premise completely.
His mention of not being able to see the targets, is just saying they are obscured indirect fire which you have to calculate fires for. It’s extremely common and not a problem.
You are hung up on this statement as if it says he was flinging 40mm grenades indiscriminately. It doesn’t. They put a mk 19 on a mount with math, fired single shot indirect fire, to targets they couldn’t see but were calculated trajectories based on the in common ground targeting.
No indirect fire, artillery, mortars or anything else can see their target. It’s calculated.
Which they did.
It’s not a war crime to fire back at someone firing at you. His solution was inventive and I have used a mk19 in a similar capacity in an improvised demolitions course.
I don’t know how else to say it. It was not even unbecoming or unprofessional.
We routinely would do BDA assessments to confirm kill train decisions were made correctly all the way from detect to detonate. These would also confirm the accuracy margins of the system they set up.
Long in the short, you want indirect fire that calculates and returns fire to be somehow this terrible thing that can’t possibly be accurate. It can be VERY accurate Bd I have dropped rounds inside specific tank hatches with a mk19 at 1900 yards.
Not. A war crime. He was fired upon, had a target solution, calculated the return fire, and sent it.
Pretty sure I stated that it doesn’t make him a nazi. Just incompetent or not anti-fascist are also perfectly fine explanations, and both alternative explanations make him far from an ideal candidate for such a high-ranking position.
Also, he is a war criminal. By his own admission. And said its the thing he’s most proud about his time in the military.
Gonna need some detail on that.
I was in Iraq at the same time, I’m not a war criminal.
He has repeatedly called out anyone who glorifies committing war crimes, again for a long time, in his Reddit comments.
What makes you think he is and is proud of being a war criminal?
https://xcancel.com/BenMcCombe/status/1982083117709176945
The post where he brags about shooting a machine gun nearly straight up into the air in the city where they were afraid they might accidentally shoot themselves due to low accuracy, so they even took cover and said they had now clue if they actually were hitting their targets and finishes with “One of the things I’m most proud about having been part of”
Ok, so since I have intimate knowledge of how all of the systems in this description work, let me tell you what you are reading.
It is not a war crime.
The battalion commander, who later DID green light use of mortars at targeted locations, pinpointed by audio triangulation from incoming fire detection systems; did not want to use the higher explosive yield of a mortar in urban areas.
Marines are still absolutely permitted to use indirect fire weapons on indirect fire targets, such as a 40mm grenade. These hav a much smaller yield and casualty causing radius.
To ensure they could still engage the locations actively being pinpointed by the incoming fire warning system, they mounted a 40mm grenade launcher to a mount to use instead.
His post is literally them doing all the due diligence and work to calculate return fire trajectories so they were accurate on the mapped targets, not indiscriminate fire.
There is not only no war crime here, he actively describes all the work that went into making the return fire suppression lower yield in explosives and how to make it as accurate as possible.
You might as well just copy and pasted his explanation. Shooting in a city where you can’t even be certain you aren’t shooting yourself 100s of meters away from your target and not caring if you are even hitting your target or just something close enough to them is absolutely a war crime (not making any legal claim).
You can be certain you are not firing at one’s self by mere simple trigonometry.
The rest of what you are saying is made up or misunderstanding the premise completely.
His mention of not being able to see the targets, is just saying they are obscured indirect fire which you have to calculate fires for. It’s extremely common and not a problem.
You are hung up on this statement as if it says he was flinging 40mm grenades indiscriminately. It doesn’t. They put a mk 19 on a mount with math, fired single shot indirect fire, to targets they couldn’t see but were calculated trajectories based on the in common ground targeting.
No indirect fire, artillery, mortars or anything else can see their target. It’s calculated.
Which they did.
It’s not a war crime to fire back at someone firing at you. His solution was inventive and I have used a mk19 in a similar capacity in an improvised demolitions course.
I don’t know how else to say it. It was not even unbecoming or unprofessional.
We routinely would do BDA assessments to confirm kill train decisions were made correctly all the way from detect to detonate. These would also confirm the accuracy margins of the system they set up.
Long in the short, you want indirect fire that calculates and returns fire to be somehow this terrible thing that can’t possibly be accurate. It can be VERY accurate Bd I have dropped rounds inside specific tank hatches with a mk19 at 1900 yards.
Not. A war crime. He was fired upon, had a target solution, calculated the return fire, and sent it.