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Old 05-16-2003, 07:25 PM
The_Baron The_Baron is offline
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Default Re: BBC report: Jessica Lynch rescue story staged by US military

I'm guessing that the Pararescuemen who saw her initially as well as the doctors and nurses at each of the hospitals were instructed to lie about the gunshot wounds. Probably had a plastic surgeon come in to fake the scars on her ankles as well just to keep the maskirovka intact.
For whatever it may be worth, neither the US Army or the US Air Force have upper receivers for the M4 carbines that are set up to use blanks without blank firing adapters. Strangely enough, the M249 (SAW) uses the same blank adapter as the M4/M16. Oddly enough, none of the weapons in the video had blank adapters. Of course, SOCOM could have ordered the special upper receivers from Hollywood prop houses and had them specifically for the rescue... Or it could have happened exactly as it was reported and the BBC's sources are full of [censored].
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