On or around Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:44:41 GMT, SteveG enlightened us thusly:
what, like "too much"? I love the way some of these people allegedly think. Lets use less harmful bullets so they don't hurt people too much.
'course, there's always the fact that one enemy soldier lying wounded and groaning and crying in pain on the battlefield can really screw the enemy's morale.
but I doubt the people investigating it are doing it for that reason.
'Tis odd. I'm going to shoot to kill, but only a little bit.
Isn't more to do with the fact that a dead soldier can be left for a while, were as a wounded one requires attention of comrades and resources to get him to the medics... If the enemy is tending their wounded, they aren't fighting.
On or around Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:19:08 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:
well, yes, there is that, too. wounded men occupy resources that dead ones don't.
same is true of servers
still p*ss*d off with the data-centre - can you tell?
Yes. And on a similar note, if the firewall at my client's site doesn't repsond to a ping inside the next 5 mins (10pm Sunday here) it'll be dead after I finish with it. And it'll cost them a taxi fare as I'm too full of rather good Scotch to consider driving there.
Ok, So which scotch is it......Lots to choose from..?
RichardB
Spot on Dave. 1 wounded person takes up to 10 fit people to care for him, at least up to the point of getting them to the hospital.
2 battlefield medics to administer first aid 4 stretcher bearers 2 ambulance medics 1 ambulance driver 1 security person in ambulanceGranted you can carry 4 wounded people in a typical ambulance, so that cuts down the overall average but it's still better (?) than having a dead enemy. Twisted minds afoot in the military planning arena :-)
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