Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "Israel holds military drill amid US-Iran tensions" video.

2:08 looks like a Japanese oil tanker.
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High silhouettes near a high priority target, SAW in last, while flagging platoon mates.... They will need a lot more practice. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
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@אפרתמילר-צ7ל poorly trained soldiers. I did my time in the 82nd.
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@barakk4884 they could learn from my original constructive criticism regardless of who I am or what I know. The facts speak for themselves.
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@barakk4884 Well they are in TRAINING. I am sure their superiors either chewed them a new one, or they simply are bad. They were standing up near a helicopter instead of clearing the blades and setting a perimeter. No matter what you want to say about that, it is bad practice. The SAW went in last to clear, no matter how you want to spin that, it is bad practice. The SAW barrel was pointed at another soldier, no matter how you want to spin that, it is a DEADLY practice that can result in dead fellow soldiers.
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@barakk4884 Clearing a tunnel can be done in two ways, with a squad (which they were doing) or with a buddy team (tunnel rats). The later is done with hand grenades before entry, the former is done with a SAW or grenadier using a M203 with scatter shot round loaded. If a 203 is first, then SAW is 2nd. Missile impact risk is even more important to form the perimeter spread out and get down. The perimeter is important for eyes in all directions, and any risk of anti-vehicle weaponry being used against exposed troops is best dealt with by keeping away from large structures and spreading out. I have personally had anti-vehicle mortars fired at me in Iraq.
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@barakk4884 Also I spent a whole lot of time flying around in Afghanistan in Chinooks.
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@barakk4884 I agree about rapid deployment but then you immediately establish a perimeter, people saw you coming in. It would be different in an urban environment with ops that put you at a specific destination right away, but then it is touch and go, and that was not a demonstration of touch and go. Tunnels are treated like pill boxes in trench warfare and then like room clearing if established to be large or more likely to be a small area. Once again, the SAW is 2nd man when not first. Scatter shot on a grenadier is man 1, or the tunnel is simply fragged before entry like a pill box would be.
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@barakk4884 I'll be honest, my tunnel training ran concurrent with my trench training, and I never had to use any of it in deployment. When we ran into guys in tunnels in Afghanistan, we just called in air support and fired hellfires at them. Tunnels are very much cleared with frags in training, because we are supposed to assume they are booby trapped and have hidden enemies waiting to fire in them. That reeks of Vietnam era training to me though and I hope it has been updated. The tunnels in Afghanistan are mostly in rocky mountains, a simple hand grenade is unlikely to collapse those. I have seen multiple hellfires not collapse those. SAW gunners are preferred for any enclosed terrain where there are expected to be enemy combatants in clusters. Once again, this can be secondary to scatter shot with grenadiers. Scatter shot can clear an entire enclosed area in a single shot. If your SAW gunner can't fire in safety without worrying about ricochets, which is what I think you are getting at here, then nobody should be firing anything. In that type of environment you always rely on hand grenades to clear, or just call in air support. In a pinch a c4 bandoleer could be used, but in the situation that it would be used already means you aren't in a good position for resupply (since bandoleers are best used on doors and walls of closed environments). Either way, you never flag, especially with a SAW. If you are still in, and are in a unit that gets to test such things, I recommend that you take the time to fire it until the barrel is hot, and watch what happens when you leave rounds chambered in it. They sometimes fire on their own
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@barakk4884 Scatter shot is like a big shotgun, its less likely to collapse something than most things are.
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