ARE MILITARY CASUALTIES SIMULATED?

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Re: ARE MILITARY CASUALTIES SIMULATED?

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Dear all, I have taken a short break from my cosmic research these last couple of days - as I realized that my original post(OP) of this important thread had been "sabotaged" once again: all the linked images to the MilitaryTimes war memorial had disappeared, due to their URL's being changed (for the second time, since my OP back in March 2013). This forced me to patiently reconstruct the entire post, by recapturing these (new / currently-working) image URL's one by one. As I did so, I also found further "problems" with that memorial website - and decided to update my OP with these new findings. I have to say, in hindsight (and with what we now know regarding the capabilities of face-morphing softwares), that my OP - that I wrote more than six years ago - still stands the test of time. I honestly think that it's now high time to address and diffuse (over the internets) this vexing issue with renewed ardour and energy; I personally refuse to live on a planet where such blatant deception - as documented below - can endure and remain unnoticed by most people in this world for so many years.


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ARE (many or most) MILITARY CASUALTIES SIMULATED?



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Ladies and gents,

We have seen how the alleged 9/11 victims were fictitious/simulated entities made up out of thin air - and entirely crafted in the digital domain with facial morphing softwares (today readily available to consumers) such as this. This discovery has led me to ask myself: so what about the US military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan - and other war zones? Could they possibly also be - at least partly - simulated ? This will of course sound like an extreme, "unthinkable" supposition. Well, I have finally brought myself (to be sure, this takes some serious courage!) to take a deeper look into this issue - and have recently found a great resource to work with:

"HONOR THE FALLEN" http://thefallen.militarytimes.com/

Why in the world, you may ask, would Western war casualty figures be fudged /or inflated? Wouldn't that cause more outrage among the public - and generate even stronger opposition to these wars? No, that's not how it works, in my opinion. War propaganda is counter-intuitive, and the crucial notion that "our boys are fighting and dying for our freedoms and to protect our way of life" has to be upheld. To make these wars seem inevitable and necessary in most people's minds, it is essential that they perceive the peril of a dangerous and murderous enemy. The sacrifice - or perceived sacrifice - of our young soldiers, keeps our animal instincts for 'vendetta' at high pitch. Wars without ("Western") deaths would quickly fizzle out and make the public realize the truth: that these wars are nothing but rogue occupations of sovereign nations - for the benefit of our "Western way of life".

So, without further ado, I will hereby post a series of portraits of purported war casualties which can be found on that site. All I've done is to select groups of reported victims from given days - and lined them up for analysis. I'll ask everyone to take a good look at them and draw their own conclusions - if any. I don't think much further commentary on my part is necessary, other than: switch on your critical mind and keep it OPEN.

JANUARY 19, 2012 (the 3 victims of that day, reportedly killed in a helicopter crash)

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1: Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard - died Jan. 19 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when the CH-53D helicopter he was riding in crashed.
2: Marine Cpl. Jesse W. Stites - died Jan 19 2012 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when the CH-53D helicopter he was riding in crashed.
3: Marine Cpl. Joseph D. Logan - died Jan 19 2012 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when the CH-53D helicopter he was riding in crashed.

APRIL 4,2012 (the 3 victims of that day, reportedly killed by an IED - "Improvised Explosive Device")

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1: Army Capt. Nicholas J. Rozanski - died April 4 2012, in Maymaneh, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
2: Army Master Sgt. Jeffrey J. Rieck - died April 4 2012, in Maymaneh, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
3: Army Master Sgt. Shawn T. Hannon - died April 4 2012, in Maymaneh, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.


AUGUST 11, 2011 (the 5 victims of that day - reportedly killed by an IED (improvised explosive device)

Frank Edward - Jameel Freeman - Patrick Lay - Jordan Morris - Rueben Lopez
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JULY 19, 2011 (the 2 victims of that day)*******JULY 29, 2011 (the 2 victims of that day) - all four reportedly killed by "improvised explosive devices"

James Christen - Jacob Molina ******************************* Jered Ewy - Augustus Vicari
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JUNE 4, 2011 (the 4 victims of that day - reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device") :

Christopher Bell - Joshua Powell -Devin Snyder - Robert Voakes
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MAY 23, 2011 (the 5 victims of that day, reportedly killed by an IED - "Improvised Explosive Device")

William Blevins - Andrew Krippner - Thomas Allers - Kristofferson B.Lorenzo - Louis Torres
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May 22, 2011 (the 2 victims of that day)

Beattie Clifford - Mora Ramon
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March 29, 2011 (the 6 victims of that day)

Frank Adamski - Bryan Burgess - Jameson Lindskog - Ofren Arrechaga - Dustin Feldhaus - Jeremy Faulkner
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Then we have what we may call the "BLACK DECEMBER" OF MARINE casualties - in 2010...

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1: MARINE Jose L. Maldonado - died Dec 17, 2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
2: MARINE Colton W. Rusk - died on Dec 6, 2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
3: Tevan L. Nguyen - died Dec. 28,2010 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, while conducting combat operations.
4: MARINE Stacy A. Green - died on Dec 10, 2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
5: MARINE Jose A. Hernandez - died Dec 14,2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
6: MARINE Jason D. Peto - died on Dec 7, 2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
7: MARINE Eric M. Torbert Jr. - died Dec 18,2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
8: MARINE Lucas C. Scott - died on Dec 3, 2010 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
9: MARINE Kenneth A. Corzine - died Dec 24,2010 of wounds sustained Dec. 5 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
10: MARINE Sean A. Osterman - died Dec 16,2010 from wounds received Dec. 14 in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

Another "BLACK MONTH" for the Marines was August 2009:

Jay M. Hoskins (Aug 6), Patrick Schimmel(Aug 9), Donald Hogan (Aug26), Joshua Bernard (Aug14), William Cahir (Aug13), Bruce Ferrell (Aug10), David Hall (Aug31)

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Curiously, the portraits of Ferrell and Hall (who almost look like twin brothers) have both been heavily cropped at the militarytimes-com website.
Here are two uncropped versions of "Bruce Ferrell" and "David Hall" to be found on the web. Note the almost IDENTICAL backdrops:

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http://www.northescambia.com/wp-content ... rell10.jpg
https://cache.legacy.net/legacy/images/ ... 1&option=1


September 8, 2009 (the 3 victims of that day - reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device")

Thomas Lyons - Zachary Myers - Shannon Smith
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December 12, 2010 (the 6 victims of that day - reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device")

Kenneth Necochea - Jorge Villacis - Sean Collins - Patrick Deans - Derek Simonetta - Willie Maclawhorn
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November 29, 2010 (the six victims of that day)

Matthew Ramsey - Austin Staggs - Curtis Oakes - Barry Jarvis - Buddy Mclain - Jacob Gassen
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September 9, 2011 (the five victims of that day)

Brian Lundy - Bret Isenhower - Christopher Horton - Tony Potter - Brett Wood
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May 26, 2011 (the 6 victims of the day - reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device")

Edward Mills - Ergin Osman - Adam Patton - Louie Ramos Velazquez - Thomas Bohall -John Runkle
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The very same day, May 26, 2011 - these other 3 were reportedly killed elsewhere:

Christopher Thibodeau - Joseph Hamski - Kristoffer Solesbee
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On July 14, 2010, these 4 guys were reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device":

Zachary Fisher - Matthew Johnson - Jesee Reed - Stanley Chase
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On July 6, 2010, these 3 guys were reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device":

Michael Pridham - Roger Lee - Marc Arizmendez
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On June 7, 2010, these 4 guys were reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device":

Blaine Redding - Charles Jirtle - Matthew Catlett - Joshua Lukeala
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On June 20, 2009, these 4 guys were reportedly killed by "an improvised explosive device":

Dennis Pratt - Andrew Roughton - Anthony Lightfoot - Gregory Owens
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On November 9/10, 2007 these 5 guys were reportedly killed "when their patrol was attacked by direct fire from enemy forces" :

Joseph Lancour - Matthew Ferrara - Lester Roque -Jefferey Mersman - Sean Langevin
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On Oct 3, 2009, these 7 guys were reportedly killed "when enemy forces attacked their contingency outpost with small arms, rocket-propelled grenade and indirect fires":

Cristopher Griffin - Joshua Hardt - Joshua Kirk - Stephan Mace - Michael Scusa - Kevin Thomson - Vernon Martin
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So I guess that, whenever those "improvised explosive devices" explode (the most frequently-reported lethal incidents), the Talibans - or other assorted "enemy fighters" - make sure that they always kill groups of US soldiers from the very same regiment / battalion - all of whom just happened to have been neatly portrayed in their specific army division's uniforms by the very same photographer in the very same studio, - and always against the same /or similar backdrop?

Now, is this evidence enough that the US government is faking its own war heroes? Of course, we must assume that soldiers get killed out there - what with the inherent perils associated with invading other nations. The question is: just how many? Are the numbers possibly inflated in order to uphold the public's rage against 'the enemy' - so as to strenghten the support for the US/British/Israeli/NATO/Western world's ongoing landgrab and looting of the natural resources of sovereign countries? You decide. You could, of course, just dismiss this research wholesale as some "crackpot's conspiracy theory", turn the other way - and get on with your daily lives in the land of the brave and the home of the free.

Whatever you do, ladies and gents, please do not shoot the messenger. For what it's worth, please know that I consider myself as an earnest observer of this mad world we live in - and my only wish is to restore some sanity for the benefit of humankind at large. In any event, if this patient endeavor of mine should turn out to have any merit - I'll happily take the credit for relieving the US populace from the perpetual anguish caused by the false notion that their kids are being slaughtered like cattle (on a daily basis) in senseless wars of aggression or, as they prefer to call them, "peace-keeping operations". The American (and worldwide) citizens will then have to deal with the fact that they are all being roundly duped, on a daily basis - but that shouldn't be too hard to swallow. Or would it?

May reason prevail


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JUST as I was posting this [back in March 2013], BOTH Cluesforum and the http://www.militarytimes.com/valor/ website went down - for about 30 minutes! A while later, the MilitaryTimes website went down again - for several hours. A few weeks later, their entire website was revamped and renamed. Here is their new URL: http://thefallen.militarytimes.com/


IMPORTANT UPDATE:
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What on Earth happened in 2007? If you go to the above-linked website and browse it "by month/year", you will see that the VAST MAJORITY of the alleged war victims of 2007...
are lacking a portrait / ID photograph of the deceased! Example (April2007): https://thefallen.militarytimes.com/sea ... th=2007-04 .What are we to make of this fact? And why haven't the families who reportedly lost a loved one back in 2007 not complained and "straightened out" this issue by now? If we presume that many have done so (yet this issue has clearly remained unresolved to this day) wouldn't this be HIGHLY DISRESPECTFUL to those families? I am thus hereby launching an appeal to all patriotic American citizens to contact that website and ask for due clarification of this utterly bizarre circumstance. If this doesn't raise any suspicion as to the legitimacy of that memorial website, I fear that nothing ever will.


UPDATE (2019): Since I posted the above research back in 2013, the "HONOR THE FALLEN" website has (on two separate occasions over the years) changed the URL's of all the imagelinks to their soldier portraits - which of course caused the images to disappear from this post. This has forced me, on two occasions, to patiently reconstruct it by returning to their website and finding the correct links to these "soldier portraits". Just saying... I've truly been working overtime to keep this post alive!
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Re: ARE MILITARY CASUALTIES SIMULATED?

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QUESTION: HOW "EFFICIENT" ARE THOSE IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES (IED's) ?

Another little question just occured to me today - but since I'm no expert in either explosives nor any sort of lethal firepower, I will defer my question to those who may have some expertise in such things. My question goes as follows:

In the military war memorial analyzed in my above post, we can read that the most-frequently-reported cause of American casualties is "death by IED" (Improvised Explosive Devices) placed by the roadside by the "evil enemy fighters". Seemingly, those IED's are regularly capable of blowing to bits as many as 4, 5 or even 6 American soldiers at a time. The vast majority of these incidents are reported to have occurred as those unfortunate freedomkeepers were travelling inside some modern, "state-of-the art" armored vehicle, such as this :

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So my question is: how plausible is it that any sort of makeshift, "Improvised Explosive Device" can blow to shreds such a massive military vehicle (purposely built to withstand explosions) ... and, in the process, kill most or all of its occupants? :huh:

I really hope someone will take the time to respond to this question of mine. After all - and as I said - I have no expertise whatsoever in firepower!... -_-
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A most relevant question Simon. We have drafting in Sweden and I did service in an anti armoured vehicles company. All armour piercing weapons use shaped charges. This means that an anti-tank mine (for example) produces a directional explosion, as opposed to a pack of dynamite that explodes in all directions.

This is necessary to pierce armour. So, I would say a very large amount of conventional explosives would be required to do any lethal damage to the occupants of an armored vehicle. On that Hummer I would say that the armoured floor would successfully deflect a substantial blast to the sides—leaving the occupants shocked and deaf, but definitely alive.
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CNN Tonight With Don Lemon - 01/16/2020


The plot thickens...

As it turns out, several US troops were injured in the January 8th Iranian vengeance missile attack upon Iraq. :rolleyes:

Who writes this $chitt?!
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simonshack wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:45 pm *
So my question is: how plausible is it that any sort of makeshift, "Improvised Explosive Device" can blow to shreds such a massive military vehicle (purposely built to withstand explosions) ... and, in the process, kill most or all of its occupants? :huh:

I really hope someone will take the time to respond to this question of mine. After all - and as I said - I have no expertise whatsoever in firepower!... -_-

Elementary, my dear Simon.

The DoD lacked the prescience of "Ace" Rothstein.


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They forgot about the plate!

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Humvees No Match for Crude Bombs - Los Angeles Times

Dec 11, 2004 - The nine mangled Humvees here have been destroyed by what the military calls improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. ... The Marines and Army have almost 20,000 Humvees in Iraq, according to the Pentagon. But a quarter of the vehicles do not have proper armor.
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... fox-b-1-ab
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ICfreely wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:37 am
Humvees No Match for Crude Bombs - Los Angeles Times

Dec 11, 2004 - The nine mangled Humvees here have been destroyed by what the military calls improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. ... The Marines and Army have almost 20,000 Humvees in Iraq, according to the Pentagon. But a quarter of the vehicles do not have proper armor.

[Note by SCS: I underlined the above for emphasis.]
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... fox-b-1-ab
So they primed us for the idea that Humvees without “proper armor” (whatever that means—let alone why) equals flimsy and incapable of withstanding homemade bombs. That way we would repeatedly hear these IED stories and not think twice about questioning the premise.

My own (limited) experience with makeshift (or improvised) firecrackers (in my much younger days) makes me highly doubtful about the deadliness of these alleged IEDs.

Moreover, the idea that the US government would continue to neglect “properly” arming these things is absurd. The DoD would NEVER miss a chance to throw huge sums of money at the countless “defense” contractors who make war machines.

I’m calling bull$hit on most (if not all) of these stories.

What’s next? Savages with bows and arrows attack soldiers without proper body armor?
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SacredCowSlayer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:40 am
I’m calling bull$hit on most (if not all) of these stories.

What’s next? Savages with bows and arrows attack soldiers without proper body armor?

:lol:

A "convicted terrorist" with a shank will have to do for now, dear SCS. :P

U.K. Knife Attacker Who Killed Two Was a Convicted Terrorist
Police identified the suspect as 28-year-old Usman Khan who had been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses
By Anna Isaac, Jon Sindreu and Sarah McFarlane
Updated Nov. 30, 2019
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-police ... 1575037587
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ICfreely wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:56 am
SacredCowSlayer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:40 am
I’m calling bull$hit on most (if not all) of these stories.

What’s next? Savages with bows and arrows attack soldiers without proper body armor?

:lol:

A "convicted terrorist" with a shank will have to do for now, dear SCS. :P

U.K. Knife Attacker Who Killed Two Was a Convicted Terrorist
Police identified the suspect as 28-year-old Usman Khan who had been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses
By Anna Isaac, Jon Sindreu and Sarah McFarlane
Updated Nov. 30, 2019
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-police ... 1575037587
Yes, these stories about mass “knife attacks” are real head-scratchers for me. Planning to kill a bunch of people with a knife is tantamount to preparing for a rice eating contest using chopsticks. I mean . . . really? That’s the plan? A knife? :wacko:

But back to the topic at hand, lest I wind up derailing it myself. I’m pretty sure the average person hasn’t even considered what it takes to make (let alone place where a supposedly elite occupying military force is located) a powerful, predictable, and precise explosive device. For it to happen to begin with is a difficult one to imagine. But, nearly 17 years later, and it’s still happening? Come on now . . .
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Well, well, well...

While those crude and primitive "IED's" (Improvised Explosive Devices) would regularly blow those poorly-armored Humvees to bits (killing all their occupants), we're supposed to believe that a direct missile strike(on an American military base) by the Iranian Armed Forces would fail to kill even ONE single person.

Ah, but 11 were injured ! :rolleyes:

11 U.S. service members were injured in Iran's missile attack, Pentagon reveals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... missile-a/

What a silly world we live in.
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simonshack wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:15 pm Well, well, well...

While those crude and primitive "IED's" (Improvised Explosive Devices) would regularly blow those poorly-armored Humvees to bits (killing all their occupants), we're supposed to believe that a direct missile strike(on an American military base) by the Iranian Armed Forces would fail to kill even ONE single person.

Ah, but 11 were injured ! :rolleyes:

11 U.S. service members were injured in Iran's missile attack, Pentagon reveals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... missile-a/

What a silly world we live in.
And to think, Iran could have cobbled something with real significance together (on the cheap no less) by taking a page from the regular “street people” of Iraq. :rolleyes: Silly (news) world indeed dear Simon.
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