All that mercenary training
and no one taught them to wear bullet proof vests?
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I guess they weren't ready for the school shootout but I also thought it might slow them down because BPV are usually heavy.
sharecompletely surrealistic when it came to the mercenary pro stuff lol
why didn't guzman just throw a few nades down from the roof for example, those guys werent supposed to get inside the school at all
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"if seagal was thinner this could have been a theatrical product."
Yeah, the Guzman scene somewhat sucked IMO. Made these guys give the real mercs a bad rep.
shareIn reality bullet resistant(not proof)Vests main purpose is to hold the body together in case of injury. most rounds in a combat zone can go through the vests and there main purpose is making sure the persons body is held together properly for identification
shareIn reality bullet resistant(not proof)Vests main purpose is to hold the body together in case of injury. most rounds in a combat zone can go through the vests and there main purpose is making sure the persons body is held together properly for identification
Don't know who gave you that idea. The torso is not used for identification; that's what you have the dog tags for. And if no dog tags or other ID is on the body, it is the face that is used for identification.
And the body will still hold together, vest or no vest. You never see a body falling apart from being shot. Ghastly wounds, to be sure, but it's not like a blob of jello. The tissue will hold the body together just fine. And police wear those vests all the time: it has nothing to do with identification. Those vests are cumbersome and you'd move more freely without them, and it is rather strange to think that SWAT teams -- or anyone else for that matter -- would impair their mobility just for the sake of identification in case they should die. share
Another genius. It´s a movie. Do you question every movie you see for accuracy ? Not even in real life that happens, so...
shareAnother genius. It´s a movie. Do you question every movie you see for accuracy ? Not even in real life that happens, so...
What does your comment have to do with anything I said? share
To expand on what you said.
Identification consisted of Tags, Military ID, Dental, Prints, Tattoos, DNA in that order if I were killed overseas and some limbs weren't recognizable or recoverable.
This was on documentation at Camp Anaconda now known as Joint Air Base Balad in Iraq back in 2004.
In the 90's when this movie was made of course DNA would be a last resort if possible option as it was a still very expensive process and we weren't collecting comparative samples upon a soldier's enlistment but it was still Tags, ID, Prints, Dental Records, Tattoos and the Blood Typing which was also listed on your tags.