(August 28, 2013 at 1:30 pm)Drich Wrote:(August 28, 2013 at 1:01 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Drich has no idea what an IDF attack is then.
I am assuming you mean indirect fire, as in a mortar attack, or even a ricochet. But it also can mean indigious defensive fighter, or Irael defense force.
Let me point the fact out to you again that the walls and roads are made of concrete. How many forward operating/fire bases you've been on with solid concrete walls, and roads? There is a reason FOB's are not typically constructed out of concrete. IDF's are apart of that reason.
The following is a link to how our FOB's are constructed. Another nail in the coffin of that pic is the road they are standing next to it is also concrete, which is against the standard MO for a FOB. Fob's are to have gravel, earthen or even asphalt roads, Not concrete.
Again Concrete frags when hit when causes a greater damage than the shell it self would. So evidently if they are standing in a place with painted concrete walls with concrete roads the Army is pretty sure they are not in Harm's way. Which is what my problem is with that pic. They are saying they are in Harm's way (Per the actual definition of a Fox Hole) when they are in a safe place.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...tBpc8fN8iQ
So you're jumping to the conclusion that because the soldiers aren't literally under fire as they pose for the picture that they have not served in a forward operating base and have not fought? That doesn't follow. They could be combat troops on a much needed break from their FOB. You don't know the situation.
My brother -- a confirmed atheist in a foxhole -- served one tour in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division and two in Iraq with the 1st Stryker Brigade out of Fort Wainwright. He was awarded his CIB while fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan and still amazingly found time to pose for pictures with buddies during times when his outfit was pulled off the fighting lines and allowed to rest up in safer positions toward the rear.
The tired, old "no atheists in foxholes" slogan that believers pathetically cling to is not true, though I recognize that belief not conforming to reality is not usually a stumbling block for Christians.