WINS!!!
another great job by the SAS.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/special-forces-operation-hailed-sas-2101028
Nice.
Great story. Imagine how the Vietnam War would have turned out if only we had surveillance drones, high power satellites, and Green Beret's all working in unison.
Nam would have been the same. it wasnt the military that screwed up (mostly).
I hear you. I should rephrase it then.
Imagine how the Vietnam War would have turned out if only we had surveillance drones, high power satellites, and Green Beret's all working in unison, without bureaucratic bozos mixing things up.
there s'till would've been stray apostrophe's litter'ing the battlefield like bras's casing's ;)
Hide! we're being circle'd by grammar drone's!!!
Quick! Someone give that drone pilot a Bronze Star!
pfffttt
if he reads enough of my posts he might get a Purple Heart. ;)
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 30, 2013, 03:27:14 PM
pfffttt
if he reads enough of my posts he might get a Purple Heart. ;)
...posthumously.
posthumorously
Post something.
Anyway, bravo for the SAS!
FYI, they haven't really ever advertised it, but the Australian SAS was quite active at one time in Laos and the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Post a sea story. We know you have one.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 30, 2013, 07:26:45 PM
Post a sea story. We know you have one.
Just because it has Aquaman and seamen doesn't make it a sea story.
Its Bel... he gas a sea story for everything.
Star, you know the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story?
A Fairy tale begins, "Once upon a time". A sea story begins, "I just heard the captain talking to the XO and this is a no-shitter."
Had a friend, Larry Tuohy who told this story. He was an engineer and was working out of Da Nang. Early in the war, maybe 1968, he was waiting for an assignment in the repple-depple next to MACV headquarters. A truck driver came in and asked if anyone wanted to get out of town for a bit. He had a load to take out to the boonies.
Larry thought anything was better than sitting, waiting so he went along. The truck was already loaded, and he came up short. On the truck was not a carton, not a case, but a pallet load of Foster's Lager. Foster's was available by the bottle in town, but to see a pallet? Where was this going?
Oh, out to an old French rubber plantation, said the driver. (This might get him some free Fosters, so the trip was looking better and better.)
So, they drove out of Da Nang, out into the security zone, and then on. Larry was no getting a little concerned. Is this okay? Don't the VC bother you.
Nope, they never paid any attention to this supply truck.
Finally, they pulled up the path to a rubber plantaion house, and on the porch were four strapping guys, drinking Fosters.
Larry was a little confused by all these developments. Turned out the four guys were Australian SAS. The Fosters were sent each week by one of their moms. A pallet load of Fosters for four guys every week.
He asked, what are you doing out here? They told him, that at night, they crossed into Laos, occasionally Cambodia, and looked for VC supply columns. The VC porters each had a bike, which was loaded with a huge amount of supplies. The normal column might have forty or fifty porters.
The SAS guys would follow the column until there was a bend in the trail and the last guy was out of sight. Then they would kill him with silenced weapons. They'd pull him into the jungle grass with his bike, and then stalk the next guy in the column.
They liked to kill all the porters except for the lead man. This guy would report to the logistics officer that the rest had disappeared.
The Aussies thought this was a great joke.
Don't they ever, you know, come in and attack the plantation?
One of those strapping six footers covered his mouth and tee - hee'd like a little girl.
"Oh, they tried that a few times. Naow they leave us alowne."
LOL good story.
I knew ya had one. :)
Ha!
Great story. Thanks :)
You really should write a book with all these great stories.
Great thread, great story and funnier than hell. Some times you guys are really on the funny bone. ;D
Quote from: Steelgrave on July 31, 2013, 12:40:52 AM
Great thread, great story and funnier than hell. Some times you guys are really on the funny bone. ;D
+1
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 30, 2013, 01:21:32 PM
WINS!!!
another great job by the SAS.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/special-forces-operation-hailed-sas-2101028
Great story.
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"And this shows why an element of British and American special forces may remain in Afghanistan long after the regular troops have gone home."
Probably a good idea, and a good practice environment for special forces troops.
Quote from: Centurion40 on July 31, 2013, 08:00:46 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 30, 2013, 01:21:32 PM
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"And this shows why an element of British and American special forces may remain in Afghanistan long after the regular troops have gone home."
Probably a good idea, and a good practice environment for special forces troops.
I read that, too.
However, the US is more likely to pursue a course of action similar to that in Iraq. Therefore, don't count on us keeping a single soldier there.
There is a case to be made for the US to pick up all its marbles and take them home, allowing the world to fall into whatever chaos it so chooses. However, this president has not made that case, and I do not believe he understands the full extent of what consequences might fall out of a half-baked foreign policy.
I'd say that, so long as a friendly government is in power (that would invite the ongoing military support of its NATO & other allies), and so long as the special forces have a secure base from which to operate; then our special forces troops should be deployed to engage in operations; at the discretion of each respective head of state.
that pretty much precludes us keeping troops in A-stan.
"Secure" is a relative term. ::)
this one time... at the navy's band camp...
Quote from: Windigo on August 08, 2013, 03:37:33 PM
this one time... at the navy's band camp...
Windy pulled out his flute, offering it to others. "Try mine!"
and thats how he met Azz. :P
^ thats less fun without return fire.