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Unless things had changed substantially since that video was made, COP Keating was nothing more than an nighttime assault waiting to happen. I don’t like to be critical, but what’s surprising to me is that the death toll wasn’t higher.

If we’re going to get serious about placing our soldiers in outposts like this, we had better get serious about holding them to a higher standard than was on display in that video.

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