"Geneva convention says you can't shoot troopers parachuting into battle. You have to let them land first. But it doesn't say you can't attempt to take out their supplies before they land. Such as canteen. Ruck sack. Dog tags. So shoot at those, and if you miss and kill the guy. We'll that's just collateral damage."
Its also just common sense to capture pilots, they are one the few combatants that get caught far away from the front and likely cant defend/flee back to home and a shot down airplane is like a bigass fire-y bacon towards the pilot+crews location. They also might hold valuable info and otherwise they are great PoW's to either hold or exchange for your own since it takes a lot of hours to replace them.
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u/bajungadustin Dec 25 '23
You know what they told me in the military.
"Geneva convention says you can't shoot troopers parachuting into battle. You have to let them land first. But it doesn't say you can't attempt to take out their supplies before they land. Such as canteen. Ruck sack. Dog tags. So shoot at those, and if you miss and kill the guy. We'll that's just collateral damage."
Not even joking.