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2010-06-29 Afghanistan

150 Tickets to Paradise issued since Sunday

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-06-29 10:08|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 maybe they should try not telling them when oyu aee coming more often.Never understood that anyway.

Posted by chris 2010-06-29 13:48|| 2010-06-29 13:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Me neither. I can just see it now. Eisenhower announcing to the Germans: "No you idiots. We are coming ashore at Normandy. Patton's First Army is a charade. Ya got it? And, oh by the way we are trying to do this thing at or about the first week of June. Don't waste your U-boat resources. Focus on the Channel."

Hearts and minds my a$$.

Posted by anymouse 2010-06-29 14:35|| 2010-06-29 14:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Just give them bad acid and then kill them from the top down. Oops, me well bad, but at least they get a glimpse of Hell afore they get there.

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2010-06-29 15:36|| 2010-06-29 15:36|| Front Page Top

#4 If your enemy are half intelligent, when told where an offensive will be, if outgunned they will bug out. But this is freaking Asia. Common sense and honesty do not apply.

I remember a lecture given by LTC Bo Gritz, who with his top notch Hmong army, deep behind enemy lines, told his Hmong that they needed to do a mission on the Tet holiday.

They immediately started digging in. Puzzled, he asked them WTF?, to which they responded that when dug in, they would make a racket, that would attract the NVA. Then, no matter the outcome of the battle, they would either be dead, or able to go home for Tet.

He decided that maybe a mission during Tet wasn't such a hot idea after all. As it turned out, nobody wanted to fight during Tet. Had the mission gone down, he would have arrived at the mission objective to find it empty. All the NVA when home for Tet as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-29 17:56|| 2010-06-29 17:56|| Front Page Top

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