Timeline for In modern day combat, what would warrant singing during battle?
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 5:59 | comment | added | Nahshon paz | Cicad dreads the day when drone swarms replace infantry chargers. Remember, he's been around since the pyramids. He can learn new tricks but prefer what he knows and loves, and the invincibility when taking a hit is a major part of the story. So I'll avoid drone pilot silos as much as possible. | |
| Aug 28, 2018 at 5:50 | comment | added | can-ned_food | The first example is more like littering demotivational pamphlets than what the question seeks. A better example would be when they played death metal, or its spiritual ancestors, in Vietnam, so as to agitate the Viet Cong — but even that is stretching it. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | computercarguy | Also, being in artillery would tend to be far enough away from the action, as well as loud enough on it's own, to allow singing. Being on a battleship and sending off rockets, while singing "Anchor's Away" might get you some backup singers. Besides, once you're in a firefight with dozens or hundreds of people firing around you, you're likely to have ear protection anyway, and then you can sing. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 20:19 | comment | added | RonJohn | Also, I get the impression that Cicad the singer needs to be up close and personal. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | RonJohn | Usually not directly with their eyes, and even if a tank commander sticks his head out to look around, he sees the enemy tank not the people inside the tank. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 20:10 | comment | added | Willk | @RonJohn how do you think a tank crew picks their target? | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | RonJohn | Being in a tank or drone controller hut break the firing a missile at people so far away that you can't ever see them doesn't answer the requirement of "a fight" requirement*. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 15:32 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |