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Ultrashiver — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 03:57 AM)

When I was in the Airborne, we jumped with our weapon in a weapons case that was attached to our side.
In the scene where the school teacher was killed, you see a weaponless Soviet paratrooper go into a crate and pick up some random Kalashnikov and gun him down. Each weapon is zero'd to his/her own operator so picking up some random weapon is not feasible.
And if this is their style of jumping, what if the para-dropped weapons crate caught a different wind and ended up on the roof of the school? They would be in big trouble.

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U know those were actually American Paratroopers, right? Notice they're using American canopies? Maybe u were one of them?

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You're asking a lot of specifics for something that represents other countries from 33 years ago.
Maybe they didn't count on being dropped right in a schoolyard and thought they'd have more time to prepare.
I think these are supposed to be passive details enough to be plot filler and not micro-analyzed.

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