Originally Posted by
ABNAK
Okay, having been in the military yourself is it really practical to "pause and cover" while someone prays in a tactical situation? Maybe it was for the video but seriously? Sorry, but if you're making a movement to contact it is absurd to stop and allow someone to throw out a prayer rug and face Mecca (or clutch Rosary beads and recite Hail Mary's).
I actually thought of that when I wrote my response. I doubt we are that PC.
Although, I know when I was writing OPORDS for JAAT-T missions, I always set the the last navigation check point so we would be heading towards Mecca, and the turn onto drop heading so we would be heading towards 31° 46' 25.79" N 35° 13' 27.60" E. I doesn't take much effort to be considerate of others. Made for some fun DZ's, though.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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