Helmets?
In a real situation, would the really fight without helmets...?
shareThey do it all the time.
sharein Lord of the Rings.
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MovieChat Forums > Tears of the Sun (2003) Discussion > Helmets?
navy seals and other special forces teams who go behind enemy lines tend to go without helmets (older brother is an ex SEAL)-don't really care if y'all believe that or not but oh well
shareMy son in law was in the US Marine Force Reconnaissance and he told me that they generally didn't wear helmets when on deep recon in jungle environments.
shareThey jumped out of the plane with helmets on... That counts, right?
shareHelmets are weight as well as protection; you can only carry so much. There are tradeoffs between protection, firepower (weapons plus ammo, and ammunition gets heavy fast), sustainability (food, water, batteries) and mobility. Same reason they weren't wearing large amounts of body armour: the intent was to either be in and out without a fight, or to have the mobility to choose when to fight, but then they hit Plan C.
If your reaction to effective enemy fire can be "take cover, fire back and call for support" then shedloads of protection makes sense. If you have to fire-and-manoeuvre without being overtaken, outflanked, surrounded and killed... you need firepower and as little else as you can get away with, otherwise you end up doing the "Brecon Shuffle".
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He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.
Most spec ops helmets these days are low profile. They wear them not for fragmentation protection but for the same reason you wear a helmet in Hockey. Modern Spec Ops tends towards a mission inside of an urban centre, or at least the missions we see portrayed more often.
Go in, clear a room, last thing you want is someone with a crow bar to crack your skull open.
In the jungle a helmet doesn't offer too much protection and spec ops aren't supposed to get into pitched firefights anyway. The idea is that if you have to "go loud" at all then you're probably dead or really screwed up.
Originally they weren't anticipating combat, so most likely they would have worn soft covers because of the rain forest.
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