Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "US Marines Bested By Britain" video.

@Nydusurmainus They should win. Do yourself a favor and watch OpFor gopro footage. There's one video where a small OpFor squad in a truck is racing through the dunes, dismounts near a fuel truck and starts blasting the rear echelon mother effers in a turkey shoot. It looked like some dudes with a couple of deployments decided to ruin some teenage kid's airsoft party. When smaller, highly trained units start conducting these types of operations it's extremely difficult to counteract them. It's like the SAS raids in North Africa. You don't fight head on.
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@СаваСтанковић-с7к "it seems like the disparity would render the exercise moot." - The disparity actually makes the exercise a better learning experience. An even fight would make the differences too subtle to notice. "How much could a yellow-belt learn from a black-belt in a serious all-in match?" - Well, people don't get shot with real bullets in these exercises, so it's not "all out". An "all out match" between a novice and a black belt would end in a concussion. But sparring is perfectly fine. "And if the black-belt were to hold back, then it wouldn't be a mutual exercise" - In martial arts you hold back. What would be the point of getting concussed several times a week? or getting limbs pulled out of their socket?
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You mean the wargame where the RedFor commander used lightspeed-travelling motorcycle messengers to bypass communications jamming? Or where Boston Whaler sized boats somehow had the ability to carry and fire P-15 Termit missiles without sinking? Or where the RedFor commander also knew ahead of time where USMC was going to conduct an airborne assault because it was part of the script and he knew the only location they could use to do the drop so he bitched and moaned that he wanted an artillery shelling with chemical rounds on that spot?
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That was Millennium Challenge 2002. The exercise was meant to combine simulated and live fire exercises happening at the same time and test network centric warfare concepts. But the OpFor commanded decided to be an annoying prick and had the simulation load small ships (roughly Boston Whaler sized) with MASSIVE anti-ship missiles they could not carry. When the US blasted jamming to disrupt communications, the OpFor commander had his communications switched to motorcycle messengers that travelled at light speed. The game was not rushed. After the losses the simulation was restarted and the OpFor commander told to stick to a script. Because he thought it was a good idea to exploit the game and waste everyone's time he threw a hissy fit.
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@rafewheadon1963 How is a "reset" being a soft soyboy? You get killed in a videogame, you want to jump back in. There's 5 days in an exercise, and you lose in 3 days... Do you sit on your thumbs for the other two days? Or make the most of the time and start over?
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@ZMCFERON More like sperging courtesy of an out of touch old man who decided to waste everyone's time with his ludicrous demands.
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@grandspringdale1564 calling people cartoon characters while you take exercises seriously. OpFor not winning means no lessons learned. Show me an army that always defeats OpFor, and I'll be looking at some tin pot dictator's outfit.
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@grandspringdale1564 Yeah, "excuses". How about the "excuse" that OpFor was a USMC unit augmented by foreign participants? USMC defeats USMC doesn't look interesting as a tabloid headline, does it? But you only read the tabloid news, don't you? What's your "excuse" for being a low-information reader who believes the MSM shlock?
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