re: #642 Joo-LiZ

TBH again, I don’t see how not having paintball guns could have helped.

It may have made things worse.

At least this way, the weapons grabbed by the mercenaries were only pistols, and it is clear the soldiers had no choice.

What would have happened with actual automatic weapons? The same soldiers who dropped down would have been lynched, and the same soldiers who pulled out their pistols and defended their platoonmates would have opened fire with a different weapon, only it would have looked worse on Israel.

What is TBH?

As to the rest, they should have been holding live weapons while rappelling down. Once they saw the landing zone was filled with armed attackers, they should have locked their descenders and opened fire on the attackers. They could then finish their decent in safety.

They couldn’t do this because they were holding toy guns and had misread the situation on the LZ. They will learn from this mistake and not repeat it.