War News Updates gives us an interesting perspective on a small unit firefight in Afghanistan, with Marines engaging the Taliban, while carrying small cameras strapped to themselves and their weapons.
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Firefight
couple of interesting things there, at around a minute you see the camera pan from a Marine at a corner of a building to another on the side of a road with a ANA troop next to him, the Marine is aiming down the sights while the ANA has his rifle over his head “allah ahkbar” style..
then towards the end you see a guy with a SAW feeding it with actual AR mags…guess that firefight must have gone on for a while or he picked it up from somebody else and had to use his own mags…
I saw both those things. The first was not surprising at all. The second one was a bit.
One of our Combined Arms Battalions bought helmet cams for their trainup for the last OIF rotation. They had a sharp young captain in the 3 shop that could quickly work video cuts into their platoon AARs after BTXII live fires. It was a pretty good tool. We bought some in Iraq, but always joked about how we would wind up catching war crimes on video….