Damned ugly, is your reward for poorly maintaining a relaxed security posture. A result of overconfidence, poor leadership, and terrible discipline. After all, just because it is quiet now and has been quiet, doesn’t mean that it is going to stay like that forever. It doesn’t take a detective or an operator to put eyes on a position and know that, no f*cks given are within a position, or to simply observe undisciplined troops, which are ripe for an ambush or to be overrun.
This video demonstrates the results of the complacent, “nothing is or has been happening here” attitude. A negligent posture that often can afflict inexperienced and undisciplined forces. This plague can further and decisively metamorphize in the favor of the enemy under bad leadership.
Saudi regulars took this lesson to the grave, at the hands of in comparison; ill-equipped, undertrained, and unorganized Houthi tribesmen. Hopefully, the overconfident and truly untested can learn from their mistakes. This kind of fuck-up has happened to Western forces, as well as Americans. Let’s try not to repeat history because you’re being lazy or gambling with the lives of those around you for your own stupid dreams of being Rambo.
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Way back in 1991 we had a Saudi Lieutenant in my The Basic School class. Since he was a "guest" he could refuse training if he wanted to and just observe. We only had 3 humps in the 6 months we were there because our curriculum was so packed. We had a 12 mile, 17 mile, then the 25 mile MCCRES hump--all in full gear with weapons (damn large jumps in distance with no work up to them--but, we were officers so it was expected we did our own workup on our own time). We would line up in formation, and, as soon as the call came to step off, this Saudi sack of shit would just side step out of formation and walk back to the following Humvee and throw his pack in back and jump in for the ride.
He was absolutely worthless in a uniform.