African Fighting(from the battle for Monrovia)

[JimmyCracksCorn]

There is something funny about those pics, though. A company of ROTC students could tear through these morons like a knife through hot butter.

Yeah, right. College weanies vs. people who have known nothing but war their whole lives.

[KrazyHorse]

College weenies with proper respect for marksmanship, team tactics and cover?

Yes.

[KrazyHorse]

Now, imagine 2 or 3 decent riflemen firing at this dude from a prone position behind cover. His lifetime would be measured in tenths of a second.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Elok
Was this meant to be deliberately ethnically insensitive, or just run-of-the-mill bad taste? Haha, people are dying!

I imagine the bistandards are dying but I'd be amazed if anyone in either army actually got hit.

[OzzyKP]

Great pics, great commentary.

I'll be one of the few who will try not to make this thread more serious than it intended to be, and just laugh at Lonestar's funny comments.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
College weenies with proper respect for marksmanship, team tactics and cover?

Yes.

Get some paintballers. They'd F these guys up.

Of course though, they wouldn't look half as cool as the African guys do.

Is it disrespectful to point out the recently deceased (one can only assume) look damn cool? Especially the guy with the spikey hair and no shirt. DMX couldn't hope to be that cool.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Lonestar


It's more of a mockery on African "armies" who seem to draw their training from "gangsta" culture.

But they aren't from the army- they are street thugs and gangs turned into militias.

Of course, this means they are way cheaper, and highly expendable. So who cares how undisciplined they are? Its not like they are anything more then cannon fodders for the warlords.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Is it disrespectful to point out the recently deceased (one can only assume) look damn cool?

No they don't. Their poses are so obviously affected as to be ridiculous, in most cases.

[Bosh]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn


Yeah, right. College weanies vs. people who have known nothing but war their whole lives.

Definately. The 19th century equivalents of ROTC kiddies annihilated plenty of African armies who had "known nothing but war their whole lives" even in battles in which Africans had comparable weapondry. The African standards of marksmanship were godawful and they'd fire whole slavos without hitting anything.

[Dinner]

There have to be a few stable states with modern armies in Africa.

[Saras]

South Africa would rule subsaharan africa if it wanted to, and no one from outside interfered.

[Dinner]

I meant besides South Africa.

[Az]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn


Yeah, right. College weanies vs. people who have known nothing but war their whole lives.

oh, you betcha! I would go as far as to say that the street gangs have no chance whatsoever.

[Pekka]

Az, I was thinking exactly the same thing...

[Daz]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Get some paintballers. They'd F these guys up.

True. If its a life-or-death situation, and the paitballers HAVE TO fight.... it's not even funny.

This shows why africa is a popular destination for mercenaries...