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2006-09-17 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LOL. Wow - lookit all those medals. They must be the baddest dudes around. Sure glad they're our "allies".

Posted by flyover 2006-09-17 00:49|| 2006-09-17 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 LAHORE, the name says it all.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-17 01:55|| 2006-09-17 01:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The ones they sent to the Mog were considered as abysmal. Officers sent to sit it out and a 'political' reward for connections, not something to get into a fight with. From what I've read, nothing much has changed in the mean time.

Posted by Gletle Flegum7716 2006-09-17 07:33|| 2006-09-17 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 In 93 at Mogadishu, I worked with the Pak 10th Balak, in April of that year they had their asses handed to them at a food distribution site that was ambushed. One lieutenant who was shot in both arms pulled ammo out of belted ammunition with his teeth so his troops could press on the fight with their AKs. He bled out, two of his troops survived out of 12 When pressured into a fight they will!

Posted by Joe of the Jungle 2006-09-17 07:50|| 2006-09-17 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 A Marine friend of mine who served in Somalia said his neighborhood watch could do a better job than the Pakistanis.

I don't doubt their bravery (in the right circumstances). I do doubt their technical competence. Don't forget several thousand Paki soldiers joined the Taliban to fight the Americans. They were helpless against our Special Forces.

Al

Posted by frozen al">frozen al 2006-09-17 12:27|| 2006-09-17 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 They were helpless against our Special Forces.

As most of this world is, and should be.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-17 13:47|| 2006-09-17 13:47|| Front Page Top

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