[dinok]

Well laddy, its time you earned some real war stories to excagerate over a beer at the pub.

[southernerwithanattitude]

Yeah I thought this Black Watch bunch was supposed to be tough. This boy was just 19 and whineing like a little girl?

[OldFriend]

The girlie men are heard from.

[chemical_boy]

I thought the Black watch were supposed to be tough

[duckbutt]

What's wrong with these guys? I thought their nickname was the "ladies from hell".

Is the pantyhose under their kilt too tight?

[Smoote]

You're soldiers - deal with it.

[crazycat]

this is from the same paper that gives out a free copy of, get this,......the New York Times......every Thursday.

They have lost the plot, ever since Conrad Black lost control.

[cynicom]

Oh boo hoo, we might get hurt, lets go home.

[Jumper]

American Forces have shouldered the burden of the fight in Iraq. Our Allies and Contractors have held lots of ground not contested on a daily basis. These poor wretched souls who complain can take comfort, again, that it is the Americans who will do the fighting in F-town.... and then they will, again, be safer due to the elimination of yet another contested area in Iraq's midst!

[redhead]

""We expect every lunatic terrorist from miles around to descend on us like bees to honey,""

Heh. Reverse psychology. "Appear weak. Attract villains. Wipe out same." A form of Strategery that works every time it's tried.

[Bobibutu]

Ya know? If 99 guys said something positive or nothing at all and one or 2 said something negative - guess what gets the press. C'mon - this is a Great Unit. Reserve comment until after the fact. Speculation/opinions is like lower sphincters - everybody has one.

[HurricaneD]

I appreciate their help and I'm pretty certain they are tough enough to handle what comes along. Good luck to them and bad luck to those that cross them over there.

[crz]

Translation=Send us some Whisky!

[LibertarianInExile]

After exiting an aircraft, 19-year-old Pte Manny Lynch, from Fife, said, after cleaning up the puddle in his BVDs, "$#!#! They're Sunnis here--and these $#@$#@s fire BACK! Guess I better call me mum and tell her the U.S. armed forces will still put anything HRM throws at them to shame. Operation Colony Reconquest is ruled out this year, eh Leftnant?"

[TheCrusader]

"We expect every lunatic terrorist from miles around to descend on us like bees to honey," a high-ranking officer said in an e-mail home this week."

Uhuh, take a single line from a entire email for effect and drop it like bait on their readers. For all we know the next line said, "...and I can't wait to get a chance to take some of them out".

[Chode]

it's painful admitting they aren't as good as the USMC i guess

[traviskicks]

I don't get why the Brit media degrades their troops. If it were the opposite I'd like to see our media (lol well, I should clarify, the conservative media) talk about how our troops kick ass and are ready for anything and will represent us well and pehaps even some good natured digs at the brits.

Instead the Brit media is treating their troops like their a fragile bunch of boyscouts.

I have no doubt the Brits are every bit as tough and ready as our troops and I would be a little ticked if I were a soldier in the Brit unit...

[Khurkris]

""We expect every lunatic terrorist from miles around to descend on us like bees to honey,"

Dear Sir...this is what is known as a target rich environment. Aim for center mass and fire your weapons.

[GMMAC]

First Bayonet Charge since the Falklands War

British troops in Iraq perform their first bayonet charge since the Falklands War. 35 insurgents were killed, while only 3 British troops were wounded. Isn't it ironic that only a few days after Nick Berg was beheaded, that the same terrorist scum feel cold steel themselves. Turn about is fair play.

http://www.not5150.com/blog/

From Scotland on Sunday Paper

Sun 16 May 2004
Argylls fight hand to hand in Iraq
BRIAN BRADY - WESTMINSTER EDITOR

SCOTTISH troops fixed bayonets and fought hand to hand with a Shi’ite militia in southern Iraq in one of their fiercest clashes since the war was declared more than a year ago, it was reported last night.
Soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mounted what were described as "classic infantry assaults" on firing and mortar positions held by more than 100 fighters loyal to the outlawed cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, according to military sources.
At least 20 men from al-Sadr’s army were believed killed in more than three hours of fighting - the highest toll reported in any single incident involving British forces in the past 12 months.
Nine fighters were captured and three British soldiers injured, none seriously.
"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead," one source was quoted as saying. "There were bodies floating in the river."
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were drawn into the fighting when soldiers in two Land-Rovers were ambushed on Friday afternoon about 15 miles east of the city of Amara. The soldiers escaped, only to be ambushed a second time by a larger group of militia, armed with machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
Reinforcements were summoned from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment at a base nearby. "There was some pretty fierce hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets fixed," the source added. "There were some classic assaults on mortar positions held by the al-Sadr forces."
Official spokesman Major Ian Clooney confirmed the Mehdi army "took a pretty heavy knocking", but refused to specify tactics. "This was certainly an intense engagement," he added.

.... snipped ...

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=559592004

[opbuzz]

I wonder how many of the 191 casualties that DIDN"T die returned to duty.

The 200 weren't casualties; they are Marines.