Maybe not the smartest thing to be singing at that moment, but does it deserve this much attention?
Can understand how people not familiar with military think pilots should act professional all the time but that is just not realistically achievable.
Specially if you understand a pilot that has seen much instant death create some form of psychological shield against the horror side of it all.
Once they're back in normal life, when there is no need for the shield, to life without it, now there is the trouble.
I don't hear or read anything about this in these stories, all the focus is on how a pilot could do something fun while preforming his job (war).
This opinion stands clear from what war is and is used for, i am looking at why a (human) pilot would do something like this.

Wars a bitch

I dunno, maybe some of you would feel better if the pilot was saying 'Im really really sorry about this' just before the missile hit?

Originally posted by Nonchalant
Wars a bitch

2nd

oO maybe they were planting IUD's then!!!

That is what happens when you are caught planting IED's

Poppies??

In the middle of a road???



Well done pilot

Originally posted by Nonchalant
Wars a bitch

I dunno, maybe some of you would feel better if the pilot was saying 'Im really really sorry about this' just before the missile hit?

edit on 6-7-2012 by Nonchalant because: (no reason given)

You are right.
Should have been singing Queen's "Another one bites the dust".

Originally posted by H1ght3chHippie
The chopper pilot is military. Military has only one purpose: Killing human beings.

Agree.
Also I do not understand that instantly some people jump to conclusion without any evidence that the people that were killed indeed were innocent civilians. Wars are very very dirty and gruesome. On the contrary, many service members have been killed because they thought that someone was innocent (including children and animals). Without being in the war theater, it is very very difficult to assess as per who was right or wrong.

The guys were clearly planting an IED. What other possible reason is there for digging a hole in the freaking road? War in general is bloody unfortunate, and I genuinely feel that the Afghan conflict sound have been over for long ago. But to me, its clear these two were legitimate targets. And now at least one of them is dog food, and if my not feeling bad about that makes me a bad person then so be it.

The pilot singing is, IMO, a whole lot less offensive than in some of the videos I've seen where they're laughing and carrying on.

Awesome, hope the pilot gets a medal.
It must be an impressive feeling reigning down american justice on terrorist scumbags, no wonder he was singing.

the point is, it could be he dropped his keys and was looking for it, the guy was waiting for someone, he was bored and went for a walk, found a piece of scrap that he could sell.

if he was planting an ied, the chopper pilot could have used the film to pinpoint the location and check it out during the day without blowing up half the neighbourhood.

the guy was unarmed and no threat, just like 90% of every apache video released.

Originally posted by randomname
the point is, it could be he dropped his keys and was looking for it, the guy was waiting for someone, he was bored and went for a walk, found a piece of scrap that he could sell.

if he was planting an ied, the chopper pilot could have used the film to pinpoint the location and check it out during the day without blowing up half the neighbourhood.

the guy was unarmed and no threat, just like 90% of every apache video released.

How the hell do you know that the target was unarmed and no threat?

Do you have any clue as to how the military works? Do you have any idea about the procedure that the pilot had to take to describe his target and then get authorization to fire? How do you know that what was going on was a week long stakeout on a know Taliban stronghold and that men on the ground KNEW that insurgents were buring IEDs in the street?

You have no clue, so please, give it a rest.

Originally posted by Vitruvian
we never considered ourselves as hired killers .......

edit on 6-7-2012 by Vitruvian because: edit

Then what did you consider yourself?

When they put that rifle in your hand in basic training and taught you how to shoot it, why do think that was? To scare people into submission?

You were taught to kill. So was I when I was in the military as an ammunition specialist. And if you weren't in the military for that purpose, maybe in a support type position, you're in no position to judge those who were in the military.........to kill.

Poppy seeds? Really? They were planting IED's and everyone knows it. What people can't seem to wrap their heads around is that people in that region don't wear uniforms, yet they still fight in a war. It's a good thing that our military people know this because if they didn't, they'd die very quickly.

And please enlighten me to your logic that we're on the same level as Afghan rebels in that if the military buzzes over and kills them, signing while they do it, then they'll do it to the people who live in the most consuming nation on the planet. And by that I mean, we buy the most stuff. We're the people most responsible for keeping the filthy rich.........filthy rich. Are you insinuating that they want to kill the hands that feed them? If so, please tell me why they want to do that.

Get a grip.