Thursday, May 1, 2008

The Nature of the Beast

UPDATE: Video link was bad before. Fixed now!

Video of 1st-151st Infantry Battalion at COB Speicher by award-winning news photographer Sergeant Aaron Strader of the 76th IBCT.

3 comments:

Spicaro said...

getting all artistic, son. How did you get those shots from within the machinations of the machine-life? Oh boy! I loved it and was like, oh shit, Jimena is on his game. I checked in on Thursday and where your mpg was there was a broken link, and I was all like, Jimena is learning, but came back on Sat and the link to the mpg is fixed and you got that great story on condolence payments, which is a crazy idea. Imagine if the Iraqi's were able to sue the American Army for the wrongful death of their son...that's kind of scary. Ixnay on the Mayarm talk...

Jim said...

The video was by Sgt. Aaron Strader. He did it all in one day at the motor pool.

The Army makes a payment to the family in an accidental death, i.e. only if they got the wrong person, not if there's evidence they actually got an insurgent.

che christ said...

Accidental death? Sure. Like Sean Bell? I doubt the Army is going to be paying any Iraqis for their errors.