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So good it will make you put your phone down. Not sure how true the events were, but makes for entertaining tv
- kegziemcgee
- 11 janv. 2020
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The Seals are some of the best trained and most decorated elite units in the world. So what do they choose for the first episode? Grenada.
Yes, Grenada. 10,000 US troops invading a tiny nation of 80,000, smaller than Rhode Island, and with no army. And it still took 8 days to conquer it fighting only poorly armed cops and even construction workers.
What else do they show? Two episodes on Panama. Panama, where you had units of red shirt "dignity battalions" armed with bats and two by fours. Where most deaths were by accidentally bombing neighborhoods.
And then Somalia, where the US was humiliated by militias of teen boys, poorly armed, killing over 2000 of them to rescue a few dozen US troops when their choppers failed.
In the Vietnam episode there were actual heroic stories side by side with SNAFUs. But almost all this series has are stories of super silly obvious fiction.
Yes, Grenada. 10,000 US troops invading a tiny nation of 80,000, smaller than Rhode Island, and with no army. And it still took 8 days to conquer it fighting only poorly armed cops and even construction workers.
What else do they show? Two episodes on Panama. Panama, where you had units of red shirt "dignity battalions" armed with bats and two by fours. Where most deaths were by accidentally bombing neighborhoods.
And then Somalia, where the US was humiliated by militias of teen boys, poorly armed, killing over 2000 of them to rescue a few dozen US troops when their choppers failed.
In the Vietnam episode there were actual heroic stories side by side with SNAFUs. But almost all this series has are stories of super silly obvious fiction.