Well, I dont normally watch alot of TV outside of either the discovery channel or history channel here, but, I am addicted to a show here in America called "The Unit". It is a fictionalized show about US Army Delta Force soldiers, and its split between them doing stuff, and what their famileis go through while they are off having fun. Anyway, tonight, they had one of the soldiers in a helicopter accident somewhere over Russia. He used several techniques (albeit a little fictionalized, but, pretty good for TV) such as using a fire bow (although, where he got the wood from, I dont know, he was in what looked like a high steppe plateau), water from digging under a rcok (ok, it FLOWED up, but, the technique was there), setting a snare to catch wildlife (right next to his shelter...), he ate grubs though, and even made an attempt at signalling with his watch crystal. He used what was left of the helicopter, and even made a statement how, normally, you WOULD stay with the wreckage, but, in his instance, he simply couldnt. Overall, for TV, I was fairly impressed. Even if it was a little Hollywood.
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cool! Hollywood is catching on it looks like!
If he was trying to evade the enemy though, that might have explained why the plot had him leaving his chopper behind.
If he was trying to evade the enemy though, that might have explained why the plot had him leaving his chopper behind.
Yeah, but he was with a civvie. & he had fashioned a radio directional out of parts from the bird, giving him a way to "hear" civilization. So, he walked toward that. Anyway, it was kinda neat to see the techniques demonstrated.
oldsoldier said:
I saw the whole first season and bits of the second while I was in the US, I agree, for tv it's a pretty good series, although it gets more "Desperate Housewives" as it goes beyond the first season.
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