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Originally posted by rogue1
The SASR saw much more action than the Brit SAS in Afghanistan, for some reason the Americans preferred to use our men.
Originally posted by 954speeder
He should not have been there in the first place. He knew the risk of being in combat just like anyone else in combat. WAR is terrible. If you engage in combat, then it's fair game.
Originally posted by fritz
Bugger me Rogue man, we must be fighting a different war in Afghanistan.
I've seen lots and lots of pics (in my hand) of so called SASR. The chap who showed them to me is (well, YOU guess) and they were not SASR working with Rangers, Delta and Force Recon. They were good old 22 SAS. Not gonna say which Sqn because spooks don't like that sort of thing and 'they' read these posts! Anyway they was taken at the fortress of Qala-e-Jhangi when SAS got the yanks out of the crap.
(I would also like to respectfully point out that the good old API often posts pics on the web or uploads for satelitte, pics depicting SAS and attributes them to SASR and vice versa so guys back home can cream their knicks!)
Incidentally, there is a lot of flak going from MOD to Whitehall about Tora Bora and lack of recognition for some serious hand to hand stuff in the tunnels. It don't matter whether it was SAS or SASR. They should get highest decoration for valour.
Rwanda was sorted by Paras and Marines. Got to be true mate - it said so in the UK Press! BUT if you say not, obviously then General Mike Jackson's personal toys were not 'up to the job'. Dunno about Marines though - I always thought they were better then paras - earlier post to devilwasp not withstanding.
Are you back home in Aus for good Rogue man, or are you off again like our poor bludgers?
Oman situated on the Plain, to the east of Saudi Arabia where it's exposed to wind and rain, and at times, it felt like Pentonville or Alcatraz.
Originally posted by iskander
That is why we lost in Nam and why we’ll lose again in Iraq, that’s why Rome fell, why England is a mere historical novelty and why all empires bent on conquest share the same fate.
Originally posted by iskander
'nuf said.
"In soldier slang they call it Willy Pete. The technical name is white phosphorus. In theory its purpose is to illumine enemy positions in the dark. In practice, it was used as a chemical weapon in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. And it was used not only against enemy combatants and guerrillas, but again innocent civilians. The Americans are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. An investigation by RAI News 24, the all-news Italian satellite television channel, has pulled the veil from one of the most carefully concealed mysteries from the front in the entire US military campaign in Iraq.
A US veteran of the Iraq war told RAI New correspondent Sigfrido Ranucci this: I received the order use caution because we had used white phosphorus on Fallujah. In military slag it is called 'Willy Pete'. Phosphorus burns the human body on contact--it even melts it right down to the bone.
RAI News 24's investigative story, Fallujah, The Concealed Massacre, will be broadcast tomorrow on RAI-3 and will contain not only eye-witness accounts by US military personnel but those from Fallujah residents. A rain of fire descended on the city. People who were exposed to those multicolored substance began to burn. We found people with bizarre wounds-their bodies burned but their clothes intact, relates Mohamad Tareq al-Deraji, a biologist and Fallujah resident."
Originally posted by iskander
I take it you did not read the article and skipped your chemistry classes. Live and learn.
1. The topic had nothing to do with HE. Comparing phosphorus to HE is like comparing a banned three sided bayonet to a gun.
3. WMD were not mentioned anywhere either. The phosphorus was used as a chemical weapon.
4. Incendiaries have been used, but were unilaterally banned in 1980 just as gas was banned after WW1. That means that the use of chemical weapons is illegal.
The Russians are using a thermo baric RPG warhead but they are calling it a “chemical flamethrower”, and since it is an explosive and not irritant based for now they get away with it.
We use them to literally blow Afghans out of caves, and oh yea they burn. As far as it being sinister, let’s not split hairs’ here, just try some on your skin. Who knows, maybe you have a lot to spare.