10-31-2011, 02:02 PM
Stan.
Thanks for posting. Situational awareness is important.
Comments:
1) To my non-infantry eyes, his patrol showed excellent discipline in a confusing situation. Further, the leadership seemed to be there, which eliminated any panic. I am impressed at their level of training!
2) The helmet-cam field of view appears to be 15 to 20 degrees. The human eye has about 160, so the cam-wearer may have had a little more time to react than the video suggests. Just the same, the guy running past was one lucky SOB because there wasn't much pause time in the fire.
I can also attest to personal experience that one's mental image of a situation can override what one sees and is told. Fortunately someone else drove the bad guys out of what had been a friendly position where I had been landing almost daily for months. It was just 100 yards to the right of the touchdown point on the strip.
The bad guys were smart enough to not try to shoot at me. Had they done so, the wrath of you-know-who would have descended because I had fighters delivering ordnance right next to it!
Thanks for posting. Situational awareness is important.
Comments:
1) To my non-infantry eyes, his patrol showed excellent discipline in a confusing situation. Further, the leadership seemed to be there, which eliminated any panic. I am impressed at their level of training!
2) The helmet-cam field of view appears to be 15 to 20 degrees. The human eye has about 160, so the cam-wearer may have had a little more time to react than the video suggests. Just the same, the guy running past was one lucky SOB because there wasn't much pause time in the fire.
I can also attest to personal experience that one's mental image of a situation can override what one sees and is told. Fortunately someone else drove the bad guys out of what had been a friendly position where I had been landing almost daily for months. It was just 100 yards to the right of the touchdown point on the strip.
The bad guys were smart enough to not try to shoot at me. Had they done so, the wrath of you-know-who would have descended because I had fighters delivering ordnance right next to it!