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To: jdege
A soldier who's just jumped out of an airplane is pretty much stationary - he's not going anywhere very fast.

To do their job in Kosovo, they're going to need vehicles. And they could just as easily have matched up with the vehicles at the airport instead of having someone drive them out to BFE just so they could get another pip on their jump wings.

The 206 Russian VDV desantniki who jumped onto and secured the Pristina airfield at Kosovo did a pretty good job of it, and so long as the French aren't under fire, they might as well get a little good training in such operations- you don't really see that much of mass jumps these days. Mors ex-coellum.


59 posted on 10/06/2004 11:58:22 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: archy

The Russians didn't parachute into Pristina. They drove from their SFOR duties in Bosnia. All Russian VTA aircraft were denied overflight rights. Countries like Romania and Bulgaria, under pressure from NATO, denied the verflights. The Russian VTA and VDV waiting to re-inforce from bases in Russia had no option but to stand down.


76 posted on 10/06/2004 3:15:40 PM PDT by Tommyjo
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