Navy F-35 has “landing mishap” on carrier, crashes and sinks in South China Sea

[armadei]

You are the fucking moron who clearly never served a day in your life.

The exercise you speak of is a joint exercise and there are US and foreign troops on both sides, it is never just the British against the US.

You really should not post about things you have no knowledge of.

No ‘surrender’ — What really happened between US and British Marines at a training exercise

Don't believe the hype.

taskandpurpose.com

Telegraph mistakenly calls “Green Dagger” was the Marine Corps’ biannual Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise, or MWX for short. During these events, battalions, regiments and sometimes entire divisions face off against one another in a free-playing force on force exercise that replicates the conditions of warfare against a peer nation. In this particular exercise, the 7th Marine Regiment, playing on home turf, was the adversary force, pitted against the Hawaii-based 3rd Marine Regiment who were the attacking force.

The British 40 Commando was a subordinate unit under the 7th Marines, alongside a Marine Special Operations Company and a Marine infantry battalion (2/5). Opposing them under the 3rd Marines were two battalions of Marine infantry along with various supporting units. There was no part of the exercise in which 40 Commando was pitted alone against a U.S. Marine unit and would have thus had the opportunity to “dominate” them. At no time did a unit surrender during the exercise, nor was any unit almost completely eliminated by 40 Commando. The exercise does not involve an objective means of scoring, although casualties are recorded and dispatched to a “Zombie FOB” until resurrected, and the use of killboards is a subjective, usually inaccurate, means by which units attempt to track the destruction of enemy assets. The exercise was halted for a period of several hours while all participating units searched for a truck platoon that had gone missing – but there was no “re-set” to allow any units to recover.

*yawn* Yes, run to an opinion piece written by someone who retired 2+ years prior to the event in question if it makes you feel better.

I, in turn, will simply add this to the ever growing list of abysmal military failures we've seen over the past few years.

Maybe you'll wake up when China sends an aircraft carrier or 2 to the bottom of the Pacific.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

*yawn* Yes, run to an opinion piece written by someone who retired 2+ years prior to the event in question if it makes you feel better.

As opposed to the tabloid piece you posted that did not get any of the details correct. Yes, truth does make me feel better.

I, in turn, will simply add this to the ever growing list of abysmal military failures we've seen over the past few years.

That is because you are a fucking moron that never had the balls to serve their country. It is easy to attack that which you know nothing about.

Maybe you'll wake up when China sends an aircraft carrier or 2 to the bottom of the Pacific.

That would give you a little woody wouldn't it? You would be jumping for joy