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Old 05-24-2003, 09:32 AM  
directfiesta
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Originally posted by theking


The military did a press release about the truth of the operation and as I recall it was not overly glamourized. They did use terms like hero...heroic etc., but the fact of the matter is that any operation carried out in a combat zone is heroic by its very nature. People are in harms way and not just from enemy combatants.

It was the fucking media that played the story based upon "sources". I know what "RESCUE" means and implies when used by the military. It is fucking civilians and civilian press than do not know what "RESCUE' means when used in a military sense. Basically when any MIA or POW is recovered it is deemed a rescue and it is factually a rescue. In example if a pilot bails out over the desert...even though there may not be an enemy combatant within a hundred miles...his extraction is a "rescue". A soldier ends up MIA during an operation and is recovered...it is deemed a rescue when he is located and extracted. It is the press that glamourizes and turns truth into misinformation.


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