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Cut-off. Surrounded. Outnumbered. Just 88 British soldiers resigned to defeat after fighting off 500
Daily Mail ^ | 8/6/2016 | Nigel Blundell

Posted on 08/06/2016 2:59:12 PM PDT by GilGil

Outgunned, outmanoeuvred, hopelessly outnumbered and besieged in the Afghan desert, a small band of British soldiers chose to save a final bullet for themselves rather than fall into Taliban hands.

For nearly two months, the 88 men of Easy Company – a mix of Paratroopers and the Royal Irish – had faced the overwhelming force and firepower of up to 500 Taliban determined to over-run the remote Helmand outpost of Musa Qala.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; hero; oef; roe; siege; soldiers; taliban; uktroops
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To: DaveA37

See post 20.


21 posted on 08/06/2016 3:30:37 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: DaveA37

2 months? Something smells.

If true, this is what Americans can expect if Hitlary gets elected. She loathes the military so don’t look for her to give orders to save them, history WILL repeat itself as was previously displayed in Benghazi.


22 posted on 08/06/2016 3:32:23 PM PDT by DaveA37 (t)
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To: GilGil

Good read. No wonder it’s been kept quiet. Somebody screwed up somewhere leaving those guys all alone.


23 posted on 08/06/2016 3:34:22 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: GilGil

Britain is there as our ally! They deserve a better POTUS than the scum we have now!


24 posted on 08/06/2016 3:35:35 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: GilGil

Some might, not all though - especially vets.


25 posted on 08/06/2016 3:36:03 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (*Convicted of thought crimes by the Left and the Right*)
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To: ealgeone

Good read. No wonder it’s been kept quiet. Somebody screwed up somewhere leaving those guys all alone.
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Someone screwed up big time and tried to bury it. Horrible. Putting a soldier in a position to have to put a bullet in his head so as not to be tortured to death must take its toll.


26 posted on 08/06/2016 3:36:42 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Thank you for your service.


27 posted on 08/06/2016 3:37:15 PM PDT by Bigg Red (You're on fire, stupid!)
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To: ealgeone

The Brits were also surrounded in Basra Iraq and we’re not allowed to fie counter battery. Finally the Iraqis rescued them.


28 posted on 08/06/2016 3:37:27 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: GilGil

I wouldn’t know about that.


29 posted on 08/06/2016 3:37:32 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GilGil

I bet they are tough as nails, but traumatized too.

My uncle was at the Bulge and we didn’t know he had nightmares until he died and my mother told us.

As far as North Africa, we didn’t have the means to help those guys. It was awful.

England had the MEANS AND US to help them!!

GW was president and though I dont like him for other reasons, he would have ABSOLUTELY sent in the marines!!!

This is horrific.


30 posted on 08/06/2016 3:38:09 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: GilGil

Our air assets would not have been spared if called upon by our Brit brothers.


31 posted on 08/06/2016 3:38:54 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: GilGil

That’s what the polls say.


32 posted on 08/06/2016 3:39:08 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Trump IS the revolution)
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To: GilGil

And a small percentage of FReepers will tell you that they could have held the position with a sharpened stick, but sticky keys are the closest they’ve come to combat.

These Brits are heroes, and whoever oversaw this flustercluck from a strategic viewpoint should be cashiered.


33 posted on 08/06/2016 3:39:42 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: dp0622

It is horrific and those soldiers must have been hurt mentally. How could they not be? While the queen sipped her tea, this was happening. What is there to say?


34 posted on 08/06/2016 3:40:21 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

Ping later


35 posted on 08/06/2016 3:40:27 PM PDT by Broker (Not all Muslims are terrorists, but virtually all terrorists are Muslims)
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To: GilGil

I saw a documentary on the battle of El Alamein.

They interviewed a large number of British and German veterans. Both sides put up with extreme hardships but the main one for the Germans was lack of water.

One of the German tankers said that after the British got American Grant and Lee tanks, the Germans were out gunned.

The one advantage the Germans had was the 88mm cannon. It was rapid fire, accurate, high velocity and extremely effective. One British tanker told of an 88 just knocking their tanks out one after another. One of their tanks finally got it but not until they had lost 6 or 7 tanks to it.


36 posted on 08/06/2016 3:40:40 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: antidisestablishment

These Brits are heroes, and whoever oversaw this flustercluck from a strategic viewpoint should be cashiered.
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This stinks of a major screw up and CYA.


37 posted on 08/06/2016 3:41:26 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: yarddog

In North Africa, they would send the American soldiers into machine gun fire where soldier after soldier was chopped in half. This is what the Afghanistan thing feels like. Total screw up.


38 posted on 08/06/2016 3:44:03 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: GilGil

I’m speechless. This MUST become a movie.


39 posted on 08/06/2016 3:44:32 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: GilGil

Were the Coms down? It is my understanding that the US does back up in situations like this? What gives?


40 posted on 08/06/2016 3:45:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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