Padawanbater2
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Wings
I just got done rading about this, pretty interesting. Basically, it was an operation on June 28, 2005, a four man Navy SEAL team was sent in, led by LT Michael P. Murphy, consisting of petty officers Mathew Axelson, Danny Dietz, and Marcus Luttrell, to capture or kill local Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They arrive before dawn, set up, realize their location isn't good for the attack, scope a new one and are discovered by a few goat herders. Now, this is where the influence of the thread comes in, if you put yourself in LT Murphy's position, what would you do. You have no rope to subdue the goat herders, you essentially have to kill them and face the consequences later or let them go and hope they don't notify the Taliban of your position, resulting in a failed operation and possibly the deaths of you and your men.
So what would you do?
The messed up part is how this particular story ended... The guy did the right thing (morally) but ended up indirectly killing 19 people..
The decisions we make...
I just got done rading about this, pretty interesting. Basically, it was an operation on June 28, 2005, a four man Navy SEAL team was sent in, led by LT Michael P. Murphy, consisting of petty officers Mathew Axelson, Danny Dietz, and Marcus Luttrell, to capture or kill local Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. They arrive before dawn, set up, realize their location isn't good for the attack, scope a new one and are discovered by a few goat herders. Now, this is where the influence of the thread comes in, if you put yourself in LT Murphy's position, what would you do. You have no rope to subdue the goat herders, you essentially have to kill them and face the consequences later or let them go and hope they don't notify the Taliban of your position, resulting in a failed operation and possibly the deaths of you and your men.
So what would you do?
The messed up part is how this particular story ended... The guy did the right thing (morally) but ended up indirectly killing 19 people..
The decisions we make...