Combat Camera Video: Firefight in the Waterpur Valley, Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2009 -- Embedded above is a b-roll video of U.S. Army 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2-12 Infantry engaging insurgents in a two and a half hour firefight outside the village of Qatar Kala, Afghanistan. Scenes include an exchange of small arms fire. (Video by Sgt. Justin Puetz, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. Length: 00:03:24.)

Related still imagery: http://thetension.blogspot.com/2009/11/combat-camera-firefight-in-waterpur.html

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[vaahtobileet]

@desetnik15second Yeah that damn Muslim Hitler for example!

[pupentaco]

For those morons who keep on complaining about the soldiers shooting at a hill, this is war, you shoot the enemy till they are dead or stops shooting at you. This aint some Call of Duty cunt shit where you take on enemy casualties at point blank range 20 feet away with your dual wield shotguns.

[MrSlo114]

this looked more like a training op.

[RingSight91]

@pixartist And the Waterpur Valley is in Kunar Province, where there are NO GERMAN FORCES deployed. So your input is irrelevant to the video on top of being incredible as a claim. And correction below, that should be Bundeswerh not Bundestag.

[RingSight91]

@pixartist "Getting in trouble" and "Looking for trouble" are two different things in the world of firefights. The German Cabinet would Raise Hell if they knew the Bundestag were outside the wire looking for enemy contact in the same way as US/Canadian/UK forces do. And seeing as they're limited to Regional Command Capital Command - North, centered in Mazar-e Sharif, again how the hell is your source any credible when most of the firefights are in the SOUTH where the US has the lead, bonehead?

[pixartist]

@RingSight91 German troops are in afghanistan, and they are in firefights. It's just officially a "peace mission".

[RingSight91]

@pixartist Why the hell would you take the word of a GERMAN soldier anyway? By their own standards, they won't even partake of any ISAF Combat Operations. Did you hear that? They're NOT EVEN IN THE FIGHT! If they're not actually in firefights themselves, how would they know who is and isn't a "lousy shot"? And for everyone else who DOES engage the enemy, they all run from the same NATO playbook. Why do you think the 5.56 mm NATO round was invented? Certainly not for "ammunition conservation".

[ofp555]

@GUERRILLERO312 damn it wish they were shootin at u ;/

[warzone520]

I WISH THEY WERE SHOOTING AT YOUR GAY ASS

[GUERRILLERO312]

YOU FOGGOTS SHOOTING AT NOTHING LAME!!!!