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Originally Posted by Americano
Marine life holds zero interest for me. It's your job, not mine. As to casting blame, I've read about enough verified US incidents resulting in dead civilians occurring in Afghanistan and Iraq to be assured it does happen on a regular basis. Including the US puppet president of Afghanistan complaining about that same circumstance.
Let me poise this question, yet unanswered by other military buffs, why are there no UK combat forces civilian killings? More experience in colonization efforts?
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Civilians do get killed by UK forces. It just isn't the drum beat people like to hear, so they go mostly un-reported.
The British, in my experience and what other units who work with them say, do conduct aggressive patrolling. ( aggressive in the sense they actually get out there and do it every day, all day. Not in the sense they go out spoiling for a fight )
For the rest of the groups though, they DO NOT perform aggressive patrolling, and only go out when made to. Or, they are there as engineers. Or, they are in areas that are mostly friendly to them, which reduces their chances of fucking something up.
Very few countries have Operational Areas they are directly responsible for, most countries are there in a support roles., and the vast majority of their forces never leave the FOBS. So, the heaviest burden comes down to America to bear, as it should. We have more folks there, and we are the ones that pushed to go in.