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2007-01-17 Afghanistan

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Posted by Steve White 2007-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Our intention was to show the insurgents that they are not safe anywhere

Hopefully they are learning this. A sad loss but well done to the marines involved.

Posted by Howard UK 2007-01-17 03:50|| 2007-01-17 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, Howard but they are incapable of learning anything but Allah is great and all of us are infidels that must die. If that leads to them dieing in greater quantities than us so be it. A big hu-hah to the Marines. Saw the footage on SkyNews while in London.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-01-17 05:03|| 2007-01-17 05:03|| Front Page Top

#3 All is not lost so long as Britain produces men such as these.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-17 07:30|| 2007-01-17 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 the Taliban were not expelled from Jugroom fort, and their defiance may be a harbinger of more hard fighting to come

why was the place not leveled to the ground - a single daisy cutter dropped? Nice quagmire ref too....jeebus

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-17 08:31|| 2007-01-17 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 to be clear, it was the stub wings, not the rotary wings to which the soldiers were strapped.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-01-17 14:54|| 2007-01-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm so dizzy!!!

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-01-17 15:09|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-01-17 15:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, that's a pretty amazing example of field expediency.

I doubt there's many other examples around of troops strapping themselves to the weapons struts of a helicopter in order to conduct an emergency airmobiloe drop into a hostile LZ.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-17 19:07|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-01-17 19:07|| Front Page Top

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