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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: GilGil

Do you think it’s true? Why didn’t the usa save them?


61 posted on 08/06/2016 4:43:02 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: dp0622

Should read DON COLLIER and WW2..His crew ran into same problem.Only one got out alive. Don`s nickname was WARDADDY.Check of a story.


62 posted on 08/06/2016 4:51:59 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Red Steel

Well they quoted some of the soldiers that were there and it sounds like they had it rough for a few months.

But you are probably right that poetic license was in there.

Still, 3 dead and 12 injured badly, that’s a shame.

God knows how many Taliban they killed?

How many of these guys are there? Been killing them for 13 years!!


63 posted on 08/06/2016 4:59:32 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: Red Steel

They said they were allowed to go because the local elders made a truce to prevent any other village soldiers from being killed.

I’d like to see the documentary and get all the facts.


64 posted on 08/06/2016 5:00:54 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: JPJones

The `Royal Irish’ are up in the north of Ireland.


65 posted on 08/06/2016 5:02:16 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: GilGil

Imagine what hell those eyes saw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wanat


66 posted on 08/06/2016 5:03:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: JPJones

I’m American of Italian descent and we finally got an Irish person into the family :)

My cousin married a Great Irish girl, who I knew since I was a teenager (but not well) 15 years ago. Two kids now. 11 and 14.

HUGE family of 9 brothers and sisters. One of the sisters was recently diagnosed with the human form of mad cow disease.

One in a million. No cure. No hope. Four months. It breaks my heart for them.


67 posted on 08/06/2016 5:06:03 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
Maybe not 90% but a good 25%, way to high for me at 25%.

Never give up. That is what pissed me off about the Navy troops that just gave up their fast boats, cried and posed for the Iranians to shame the shit out of the USA.

Right in line with the CIC’s doctrine, “Be nice to them and they will be nice to us.” Like chop off the head nice.

68 posted on 08/06/2016 5:06:29 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: yarddog
That “88mm” gun was feared by all who ever heard a round go over them. A screamer it was.
69 posted on 08/06/2016 5:12:16 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: DaveA37

Actually, I would suggest that she is a sociopath, far beyond anything Zero is. She loathes EVERYONE, not just the military. Certain people are ‘tolerated’ by her, but only while they are useful. If enough dead citizens and undocumented aliens vote enough times, and the e-voting machines work as rigged, so that she is ‘elected’, don’t be surprised if BJ Klintoon accidentally ‘double taps’ himself in the head, soon after her inauguration, oops, ‘coronation’. “Poor Bill couldn’t stand the fact that I was President, not him, so he killed himself. My poor, poor husband Donnald, er, Bill!”


70 posted on 08/06/2016 5:13:50 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: dp0622
What’s the Royal Irish?

I would guess Northern Ireland, still part of Great Britain.
As opposed to The Republic of Ireland.

71 posted on 08/06/2016 5:14:45 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: yarddog

Is your real name Rudyarddog Kipling?


72 posted on 08/06/2016 5:17:34 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: BatGuano

I never had that experience but Daddy said a guy in his platoon had one land only a yard from him but it did not explode.

He said that was the only one any of them remembered not going off.


73 posted on 08/06/2016 5:19:20 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: GilGil
“How could they have left those soldiers for 2 months with no backup or support?”

I suspect they didn't. Journolists get away with lies as easy as Obama, Clinton, IRS, VA.........Here there everywhere.

74 posted on 08/06/2016 5:20:15 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: BatGuano

See my post number 14.


75 posted on 08/06/2016 5:20:45 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: cpdiii

“Where in the hell was Specter, the A-10s, and the Apaches.”

Specter was (thankfully) dead, the A-10s are again being retired, and the Apaches spend most of their time in the shop.

It’s tough to win when you don’t have reliable hardware.


76 posted on 08/06/2016 5:20:59 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for anyone but Trump is a vote that HELPS HILLARY. Think about it.)
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To: GilGil

“How could the British government put their soldiers in a position to have to kill themselves rather than be captured after 60 days of fighting? That is criminal just like Hillary was criminal with the people in Benghazi.”

Perhaps they supported Brexit (and don’t laugh, it DOES happen).


77 posted on 08/06/2016 5:22:20 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for anyone but Trump is a vote that HELPS HILLARY. Think about it.)
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To: disndat
The possibility of a [killer muslim supporter] civilian getting hurt meant no help was going to be sent.

There.
Fixed it.

78 posted on 08/06/2016 5:23:46 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: GilGil

” and the Government has refused access to factual information.”

How can their Parliment Members and Ministry of Defence members sleep at night knowing the entire government is scum.


79 posted on 08/06/2016 5:26:11 PM PDT by B4Ranch ("The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.")
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To: BobL
Specter was (thankfully) dead,

Curious...
Why 'thankfully??'

80 posted on 08/06/2016 5:29:35 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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