TheNaz

I've never heard of a HARM with a white phosphorous warhead, either. Another discrepancy is the radio they use. The RO is carrying a UHF radio, which is strictly line of sight, but talking to the ship like he is using an HF radio, which can talk long distances. You can tell it's UHF from the "donkey dick" style antenna. I know you can't expect too much from Hollywood, but if they're going to go through trouble of using actual tactics (i.e. the peel they do when trying to break contact), it'd be nice if they could get some of the other minor details correct.

PLC has a few options. You can do ground, air, or law. I don't know too much about the law program, but I'm fairly experienced with ground and air contracts, since I had a ground contract myself, and I've worked on applications for both. PLC requires that you complete at least one semester of college before applying, unless you are prior service. You can choose to do two 6-week sessions of OCS (caled PLC Juniors and PLC Seniors), usually after your freshman and junior years, or one 10-week session (called PLC Combined), usually after your junior year. These summer sessions are your only requir

Thumper, the PAC-4C, which Dannik linked to, is an infrared laser pointer. The dot produced by a PAC-4C or a PEQ-2A is only visible to someone using NVDs. The PEQ-2A, which Cobra has provided a picture of, not only has the laser beam, but also an IR floodlight/spotlight, which lets you illuminate a dark room, again only visible if using NVDs. Gives the good guys a tremendous advantage at night, allowing us to essentially point and click. Also gives leaders a way of designating targets for their Marines or soldiers. The PAC-4C and PEQ-2A can be mounted to most of the weapons in a rifle company'

I don't think it's a matter of ability, they COULD have taken the building, but chose to use TOW missiles from the SBF. The US military has never been known for sticking to the idea of proportional force, which has earned us some criticism. Oh well, better to fire 10 TOW missiles at a house than have 1 US soldier needlessly killed. Kudos to TF20 and the Puking Buzzards.