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So when i watched this movie (spoilers).

posted 10 years ago by solarflareq
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I don't mean to sound like a know it all but.

When i watched this movie and they had the 3 people hostage - the boy - old man and the younger man/teen who obviously looked like he wanted them dead.

Would you not have tied the two younger fellers up and took the old man with you to a acceptable distance to escape the situation and then let the old man go to go back and untie the younger ones so they didn't die from exposure?

I mean that was kind of the whole point of them letting them all go right? because tying them up might lead to them dyeing on some mountain top.

I literally said out loud this solution while watching it with my buddies within seconds of the situation occurring.

you would think that trained navy seals would have a better solution than what they did.

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[–] best_of_jess 10 years ago

I said the same thing to my sis when we watch a couple of weeks ago. I was coming on this board to post the same thing.

I would have taken them up the mountain with me to radio for backup or whatever. And only when help was either extremely close or there would I have let them go. It only makes sense. I figured they would have thought of that. Oh well. Hindsight really is 20/20.

Ok.

[–] Flinstone 10 years ago

It´s easy to make a decision in a movie theatre. Some people in this board even wrote beep like "I would´ve killed them", when only people they´ve killed was done in PS3 or XBOX 360.

In the book (and therefore in real life), they made a vote. They voted 2 to 1 in favor of letting herders go. Dietz didn´t vote because he wanted Murphy (who was leader and an officer) make decision. It was 1-1 and Luttrel made last vote. In the book, Luttrel regerts his vote and wrote that his vote haunts him for a rest of his life.

But as it was said in the book and in the movie, SEALs were afraid of an outcome, if and when herders fate surfaces.
Even if they would´ve tied them and herders would´ve been found by local people, ACM (Anti Coalition Militia) propaganda would´ve still made US forces look like evil men who ties people on a distant mountain. Then it´s Al Jazeera -> CNN -> military court martial -> JAIL for 4 SEALs.

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[–] law607 10 years ago

In the book (and therefore in real life), they made a vote. They voted 2 to 1 in favor of letting herders go. Dietz didn´t vote because he wanted Murphy (who was leader and an officer) make decision. It was 1-1 and Luttrel made last vote. In the book, Luttrel regerts his vote and wrote that his vote haunts him for a rest of his life.

Well, if he wrote in his book then it must be true....right?

I find it very hard to believe that ANY vote would have taken place given the fact that a team leader and officer was present. Votes just do not happen.

Lutrell has spoken to reporters and audiences and has given 2 and sometimes 3 different accounts of events of what HE wrote in his real life book.

In real life, if you tell the truth, you never have to remember and keep up with what you told someone else.

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So when i watched this movie (*spoilers*).

So when i watched this movie (spoilers).