Pentagon Monitors War Videos Online

jonfr writes "According to the BBC, the Pentagon is monitoring online war videos on YouTube and other webpages." From the article: "There is no specific policy that bans troops from posting graphic material. But troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan are hearing the message that they should consider carefully what videos they upload to the web. Sites such as YouTube and Ogrish have hundreds or thousands of clips from soldiers, some set to rock music."

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Re:how I lost respect for soldiers

[drgonzo59]

Good point. The videos are really shattering the image of the "brave and noble U.S. GI". The fact that a lot of saddists who have no feelings or any regard for human suffering are attracted to the volunteer armed forces is no surprise. The military ever since the Vietnam era has been a dumping ground for troubled teenagers. It used to be the case that the teenage boys who would get into trouble with the law in small towns would be given the choice of "army or jail". The discipline and boot camp can only do so much, if the core is rotten, no boot camp is going to change that. I think that besides loosing support for the war, the Pentagon is afraid that these video will actually attract more people like that into the Army.

Where else could a saddist have chance to get their hands on a large caliber machine gun, fly through the air and blow peoples' heads off, while getting cheered by comarades -- "Oh fuck! Good job, hehe, you completely dismembered him!"

I just watched both videos. Noting wrong.

[r00t]

Here is the AC-130 gun camera:
http://www.militaryvideos.net/videos.php?videonum= 2
(the people screwing are in video #7)

If anything, the crew was being too careful around
the suspected mosque. Well, given what people like
to hide inside "mosques", the resulting explosion
might take out the whole area.

The site says "Viewer discretion is advised." and
you ignored it. Your stomach is very weak.

People kill each other all the time, usually with
far less justification. Get over it.

Besides, these assholes wanted to go directly to
heaven so that Allah would give them 50 virgins.
(sadly, I'm not joking about the virgins)

As for the screwing... you can possibly be as
innocent as you pretend to be. I'd sure tape them,
and it'd be funny as Hell if somebody taped me.
It's not as if the people are identifiable.

Basically, you wanted an excuse to hate the
soldiers. You were looking to confirm your
hate for them.