• Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    I mean that’s cool, but damn that had to be a scary ass ride. Like chopper evac, but scarier

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      I can’t imagine there’s much worse than being injured and trapped in a cold wet field in No Man’s Land. Makes me think of the guys in WWI who got trapped in bomb craters between the lines, stuck there for hours if not days before finally getting killed by some shell.

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    A flying soldier on the battlefield is skeet. You’d have to be fairly desperate, but it’d be worth the risk.

    In a just world, they should have Red Cross markings and it should be considered a war crime to shoot them down.

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      Unfortunately, in this timeline it seems that war crimes are just crimes you commit at war, not something with consequences for the perpetrator.