However, it's similarly absurd that the propaganda short indicates that knowing about that weak spot will do anything to help anyone, since it's a thumb sized node on a fast-moving creature twice the size of a cow.While it's excusable during the massed assaults by the bugs where it can be difficult to keep calm and fire straight, the situations where it's a squad versus a single bug, and the bug is clearly winning, the absolute incompetence of 'ivy-league hopeful' Rico and his even less-intelligent comrades is on full display. Once this bit is seen, the viewer is given scene after scene after scene, throughout the entire movie, of troopers failing to heed this one piece of advice, and each bug taking one clip or more of ammo to be put down. Fairly early on, a propaganda bit shows that, if the soldiers shoot a specific point on the bug torso, it will drop the bug instantly.* The camera pans back to show that he has no legs below the knees*
