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Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 139
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Believe me thats not the first time I`ve seen things like this happening in Iraq. I saw a programme about U.S. troops in Iraq doing a sweep through a village looking for insurgents & booby traps. The camera man panned the camera around to a soldier walking about 40/50 metres away, a dog came towards this soldier ( it didn`t appear to be nasty), he lifted his rifle with one hand, to the side & shot it. A civilian came running out to the dog (which surprised me, due to Muslim customs & laws) bent over the dog & started crying.
The U.S. soldiers with the camera man were not happy, they didn`t justify his actions in way shape or form & couldn`t believe what they`d just seen. The shooter was actually the medic from his platoon!
Left me feeling gutted & sickened. At the least the medic should have had a new *ss ripped for upsetting the local populace ( hearts & minds & all that). He should have been made to justify his actions on tactical grounds as well. It could have ended up with troops going into quick reaction drills & going live, that wouldn`t have been good drills.
I know for a fact that British soldiers tend to befriend the local dogs where possible(helps to stop them barking when you don`t want any body to know when your approaching,this was learnt in N.I, but if a dog comes at them aggresivelly they have a tendency to use the mk 1 boot to deter any unwanted aggression. Even been known to use catapults if the dog approaching is known to be aggresive.