Soviet Spetznas after cleaning a Mujahedin hideout in Afghanistan wearing American Woodland Camo that they took as trophies 1987.
Widow makers and heart breakers to their core.
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Widow makers and heart breakers to their core.
Placentia Bay is the St. Johns end of the Sydney, Nova Scotia ferry. I was on the hill, looking down at Placentia Bay from the old US Navy airbase a couple weeks ago. My buddy mentioned that this is where the two ships met up.
The photos of the event show the vessels (there were quite a few warships in attendance) standing a fair distance offshore. If I had to guess, I would say somewhere between Argentia and Red Island. That's an interesting pic you posted. Where exactly were you standing when the photo was taken?
For those who weren't old enough to watch Saigon fall several years after the US left, now you get your chance to see it all over again - before the US has completely left.
The first thing that came to my mind is that this is the president who was standing with Barack Obama when they similarly bailed out - not at this lightening speed - of Iraq and watched the result of that...
And this is the beginning. There will be Pulitzer Prize photos coming as candidates for picture of the day from Afghanistan as the new hajji Caliphate arises.
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The first thing that came to my mind is that this is the president who was standing with Barack Obama when they similarly bailed out - not at this lightening speed - of Iraq and watched the result of that...
And this is the beginning. There will be Pulitzer Prize photos coming as candidates for picture of the day from Afghanistan as the new hajji Caliphate arises.
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[/URL]For those who weren't old enough to watch Saigon fall several years after the US left,
The first thing that came to my mind is that this is the president who was standing with Barack Obama when they similarly bailed out - not at this lightening speed - of Iraq and watched the result of that...
And this is the beginning.
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Im convinced that most of the Democratic Party hate their own country, and want to see its reputation suffer....and problably more
Hmmmmm, just who abandoned the Kurds in Northern Syria to be slaughtered by the Turks?
It'll be a cold day In Hell before anyone trusts the Yanks again.The Germans and the French never did totally trust American resolve in Cold War days, the major reason the French developed their own nuclear option.
Grizz
True: it wasn't the guy who just abandoned a complete country and it's entire population (while a few thousand of his own citizens were still there, right?).
After being the battle buddy of the guy who abandoned another complete country, Iraq, just a few years earlier. Was the slaughter there more or worse than with the Kurds after that? Asking for a friend, of course.
And come to think of, the same duo who after one of their democracy project wars took out Gaddafhi, spawning "the JV Team" to slaughter, pillage, and rape their way through a large swath of the Middle East while they stood around watching with their thumbs up their butts - not wanting to look like a war president, and all that good stuff.
So I think it's safe to say they can both be mistakes, but that doesn't mean they're even remotely the same thing. And the butcher's bill isn't going to be even close to hoped-for comparisons with the Kurds. Go ahead: change my mind on that, hmmmmmm?
That said, in my opinion, withdrawing the SUPPORT for the Kurds was an error probably made out of stupidly wanting to visibly be bringing the troops home. That president owns that. Having made that mistake, at least he took steps to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Kurds. It didn't take things back to normal with the Kurds as they had been before, but the work was done to stop the damage after it started. They weren't wiped out.
I guess we'll see what, or if, the current guy is going to do anything to fix his rather massive oopsy once he gets back from his newest bunker, Camp David. From what I saw in the news, apparently this is all his predecessor's fault, not his. So far, he denies owning any of this.
Apparently he could reverse and stop his predecessor's policies on the southern border concerning not allowing diseased criminal illegal aliens to walk across the border and then ship them around the country, but there was simply no way for him to change the previous exit date, nor expect compliance of it's conditions before leaving.
I guess we'll get to see if there's more than excuses to be had in the coming days. There will be wretched pictures, that's for sure.
God's way of saying "Go buy a lottery ticket. Today is your lucky day!"
Damn! That brings back an old and still vivid memory.
We were leaving an area in trucks, loaded with bags of rice and grain and several hundred dozen eggs packed in paper wafers. As we went through the gate of the Cuban compound, one of them got an RPG round off.
We didn't hear or see an explosion and never thought any more of it, that's how easy it is to get inured to stressful situations.
When we got back to our camp with the spoils there was egg internals spread all over everything and running out over the tail gate.
That RPG round went into the eggs and I guess it didn't get enough impact force to trigger the fuze or maybe it was intended for armor, or it was just a dud???
A couple of us were pretty shaken by the sight of that rocket, all covered in egg goo.
You can bet the people finding that mortar round had a moment of awareness.
Thats the actuator or primer in the center of the fins, the fuse is on the other end, buried in the tire.
You'll notice a dent in the middle of it - like you'd see in the middle of a fired primer. Because it is a primer; when it lands on the pin at the bottom of the tube, the primer firing starts the initiation of the increment charges that have been left on the bomb, depending on the distance to target and the trajectory that the MFC intends for the mission. The fuse and its safety pin is at the top; I'm not familiar with that mortar round, but I assume it has a safety pin on the fuse.
An example of NATO 81mm mortar bombs. The holes you see around the increment charges is where the firing priming passes through to initiate the increments; think of them as many flash holes in a case. The other Mortar Gods in the audience can point out what's wrong with this picture:
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[/URL]When none of the increment charges are stripped off, it's called Charge Six... it can be dramatic at night... especially in the 80's, before the BADs came along to minimize the amount mortar crews get their bells rung.
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