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Post by hunt4fun1 on Mar 22, 2004 10:43:51 GMT -5
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Post by Shorthair on Mar 22, 2004 19:17:13 GMT -5
Politics will screw up a sound military operation every time!
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Post by RedOak on Mar 23, 2004 11:24:38 GMT -5
I am not overly happy with the whole Pakistani thing. They have been selling nuke stuff to everybody under the sun including plenty of enemies, but that is all ok for the sake of convinence. A blind eye and a bribe of some goodies and they are on our side. Bull. What happened to the "you are with us are against us" speach.
Pakistan should have been told you either play ball are get on the recieving end. So what if they have a few nukes. We could turn the place into a smoking hole before they new what hit them.
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Post by RedOak on Mar 24, 2004 0:47:06 GMT -5
Hey hunt I want to know who if anybody you trained with you thought was worth a flip. This isnt an anti hunt question as I was in europe and saw what passes for an army in some of those countries. And belive me guys if you aint seen it you wouldnt belive it.
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Post by hunt4fun1 on Mar 24, 2004 19:23:57 GMT -5
Damn good question bro!!
Brit, hands down come to mind first. I have NEVER seen more discipline in an RA than the Brits and in particular The King's Scottish Border Guards. Those guys have more BALLS than any organized outfit outside of the US I have ever seen. I saw sacrafices in training that you would not see most units do in real battle.
Running a VERY close second would be the Isreali Army.
Look at their past and what they have accomplished. They did not get there with a band load of pu**ies. I spent a lot of time with those guys while we rotated in and out of Egypt doing the peace keeping gig on the penisula.
And then there is the Foreign Legion. Worked with them too in Egypt. Most of those guys are not French. I have the 2nd Para Regiment logo tattooed on my left arm. They did it. (See my avitar. It's the same logo that's on my arm) I got that after I completed French Commando 10 school, Which I also have tatooed on my right arm. They did that one too.
Really, most everyone else is a joke. Now, I say that by a VERY high standard, given my training background.....Rangers, SF, working very close knit with Delta, etc.
Now for the worst of the worst........
THE FRENCH RA!!!
There has never been a more RAG-TAG bunch of faggots with guns in the history of war.
I spent an EXCEPTIONAL amount of time training with them and training them. I truely believe they are untrainable. I had a hard time letting alot of them carry live ammo. They are that bad.
On live missions, they carried beer and food out in the field instead of the needed equipment to Charlie Mike.
THE ONLY REASON they are still a country is because of us and the Brits. Hitler ran over France like they were a road turd and so could anyone else with a bicycle army.
Outside of that, I trained with the Herms, Saudis, Dutch, Canadians, Spaniards, Italians and several South American countries and was not impressed at all.
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Post by RedOak on Mar 26, 2004 19:16:02 GMT -5
That is about the breakdown I expected. My mortar platoon had a habit of going to Graf when other NATO troops were there.
While the Brits thought nothing about a beer or two at lunch they seemed hard core. The rest it seemed like a field excercise was just a drunken camping trip if that.
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