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2003-04-11 Iraq

SAS joins US forces hunting for dictator

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Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-11 01:36 am|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Gray Fox"? There's got to be a good story behind that name.

Posted by Dar 2003-04-11 08:09:42|| 2003-04-11 08:09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Run, my foxes, run. Get a little of our own back.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-11 08:41:52|| 2003-04-11 08:41:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Dar,
Goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War. There was an American general in the south known as "the Gray Fox". Can't find an immediate link to his name, and my memory isn't good enough any more to dredge it up.

GRAY FOX was active in Vietnam, I know. The Army doesn't advertise it, and it's even more secret in many ways than Delta Force, but the two people I know who were members for a time were unbelievable. Soldier's soldiers, and significantly above average in intelligence, stamina, and training. My hat's off to them.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-11 10:41:38|| 2003-04-11 10:41:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Old Patriot, sure you're not thinking of Francis Marion the "Swamp Fox"? Active in South Carolina if memory serves.

Posted by Dakotah 2003-04-11 11:24:17|| 2003-04-11 11:24:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Dakotah, I know about Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. The person I remember reading about (confirmed by my wife, who had Georgia History in school) was a colonial that took to the Georgia back country when Savannah was captured, and harassed the English throughout the Revolutionary War. Apparently he was an older man, with gray hair, thus the "Gray Fox". Army uses the name for people sent into an area for clandestine surveillance and monitoring.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-11 16:46:56|| 2003-04-11 16:46:56|| Front Page Top

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