Blog 3 Response to Michael Terzian

       While reading your blog I found myself wanting to watch one of my favorite movies The Hurt Locker. Your blog paints a better understanding as to why Staff Sergeant James removes his protective bomb suit after popping the trunk of a car only to find enough explosive to level multiple square blocks. In that sense I can understand wanting to remove your protective equipment if one absolutely knows it will be useless to wear vice the possibilities of feeling comfortable. I absolutely agree with you when you mention how risky war is and that not all equipment can stop a soldier from being hurt or even killed for that matter. I also agree with you in the sense that the speed and agility of a soldier could help maintain security and survivability. Though I am not an infantry Marine and have not been in the direct line of fire, I have had to take cover from indirect fire from rocket and mortar rounds fired into our air base in Al Asad, Iraq. Harry on Dumb and Dumber put it quite nicely when after being shot realizes if he had been shot in the head instead of the chest he would have been dead. The moral of my story would have to be that yes I would much rather wear a flak jacket and helmet or any other protective equipment to better my chances of surviving the war zone. The enemy will not always give you all they got being that they are also human and often make vital mistakes which could be used against them. Soldiers have also been known to be killed by small fragments of flying debris which could have been prevented if the proper gear was being worn.