Reply #368: this do in honour of dead mercenaries

[iverglas]

History

Rhodesian Mike Rousseau was serving as a mercenary in the Mozambican War of Independence. While engaged in fighting at the airport of Lourenco Marques (modern-day Maputo), Rousseau was armed with only a Browning HP35 pistol. As he turned a corner, he bumped into a FRELIMO guerrilla armed with an AK-47. Rousseau immediately performed a "double tap" maneuver, a controlled shooting technique in which the shooter makes two quick shots at the target's torso. Rousseau hit the target on either side of the sternum, usually enough to incapacitate or kill a target outright. Seeing that the guerrilla was still advancing, Rosseau made a clumsy attempt at a head shot that hit the guerrilla through the base of his neck, severing the spinal cord.

Rousseau later related the story to an acquaintance, shootist <sic> Jeff Cooper. Cooper later incorporated the "triple tap" maneuver (two quick shots to the torso and one quick-aimed shot to the head) into his practical shooting technique. Rousseau was later killed in action in the Rhodesian War.

There is a consensus among scientists that Nazi "science" must not be used, for any purpose. What they did is so abhorrent that their data about the effects on a human being of prolonged exposure to cold water, for instance, must simply be consigned to the ash heap of history.

Wouldn't it be nice if the same were true about the atrocities committed by mercenaries in their efforts on behalf of the racist right wing's attempts to subjugate humanity?

Just say no.


Oh, look. It's such an ugly nest of vipers, it all is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper_%28colonel%29

In the 1960s he coined the term hoplophobia, an irrational fear of weapons.

:rofl: