Posted on 01/19/2013 5:45:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A SOLDIER’S guide to surviving war in Afghanistan will go on public display – 92 years after it was written.
A 24-page diary by Corporal Charles Kavanagh, written in 1919, told how insurgents ambushed and murdered British soldiers.
Cpl Kavanagh lied about his age to join the Cheshire Regiment at 15 and was sent to the Third Anglo-Afghan War in May to August 1919.
He even described how Afghan militia would dress as women in burkas to approach a British camp.
He wrote: “The endurance and experience gained by the tribesman from years of incessant raiding make him a formidable enemy.
“He will sometimes hide his rifle and appear as a peaceful villager.”
One tip to young recruits was: “Avoid shaking hands with a strange Pathan. They will seize with their left hand and stab with their right.”
Cpl Kavanagh continued serving with the British army and was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He died in 1992, aged 87.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier
He could get a “Fuller Understanding” if he and the M00se got millions spent to parachute them into the middle of it. They can try shouting in English “we are muslims too” before the hordes descend on them.
It has to be chilling to know that if trouble like this happens to you in a foreign land, you can’t count on your country to defend and protect you. I don’t think I could go to work in a foreign country now, no matter how much an employer would pay me.
No American is of value to this president...except when he wants your vote
What “offensive” film will Hillary blame this on? Casablanca?
Well 0bama must be distressed now that there will be no hostage release on Immaculation Day.
Algeria is Islamic but has been fighting Islamic terrorists for years.
And as an added measure, Panetta has been grinding the ashes into the ground with more stern warnings 9I think I saw him wag his finger during such a warning, so it must be serious).
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I would be willing to work in Israel. The Israelis know how to smooth out "bumps in the road."
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