On Jun 24, 12:32*am, "DGDevin" wrote:
-MIKE- wrote:
Lee Michaels wrote:
There was some discussion on this group about the rescue by USN
Seals of the skipper kidnapped by Somali pirates.

There is a TV program called Somali Pirate Takedown playing tonight
on the military channel. *I haven't seen it yet and don't know how
good it is. Personally, I find all the behind the scenes stuff to be
most interesting. Things like logistics, decision making and the
politics, etc. Anyway, if the military channel does its usual thing, this
program
will be repeated continously for the next 4 years. *Check out your
local cable listings.

It was on Discovery Channel, already. It was ok. It was much more
focused on the ordeal the sailors and crew went though and their
interaction with the pirates, that the military strategy and skills
involved. They sort of glossed over the tri-sniper thing without much
technical explanation, beyond a cursory description with some fancy
computer graphics.

That's maybe because their explanation was made-up based on what they saw on
the evening news and the computer graphics aren't remotely close to what
actually happened. *I am often astonished at how sloppy the research and
production is on those shows, and how willing they are to use heavily-padded
filler of doubtful history veracity.

I saw the documentary. What were the main points of inaccuracy?

R