Posted on 01/25/2011 11:00:37 PM PST by pissant
Brickdumb must be a helluva way to go through life.
MARINES HEAD UP ALLIED INVASION; Welsh Cavalry in first wave of land attack. March 21, 2003
SOLDIERS from the regiment known as the Welsh Cavalry have seen action in the Gulf as part of the first land attack.
The 1st The Queen’s Dragoon dragoon
In late 16th-century Europe, a mounted soldier who fought as a light cavalryman on attack and as a dismounted infantryman on defense. The term derived from his weapon, a short musket called the dragoon. Guards’ arrival in southern Iraq marked the second wave of an amphibious and aerial assault by Royal Marine Commandos.
The Scimitar light tanks of the Welsh Cavalry landed on Red Beach in southern Iraq late last night moving forward of the 40 and 42 Commandos.
The task of the regiment - known as the Welsh Cavalry because most of its soldiers come from Wales - was to set up a reconnaissance screen in preparation for the next phase of the invasion.
The first offensive - a lightning attack by 3 Commando Brigade - had begun within an hour of a massive aerial bombardment on Baghdad. Red Beach, where they landed, is at the head of the Persian Gulf and where the strategically important Al Faw peninsula meets the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and the Iranian border.
The Al Faw is Saddam’s vitally important oil export sea route. Its capture by 3 Commando Brigade is key to the success of the invasion as a whole.
Where are those pictures, they would have been used in the last twenty years if they were worth maintaining and building more.
Hopefully, you are just playing a retard on the internet.
By a bunch of damn pansies, yes. I gave you two recent examples of successful amphib assualts. And you a) move the goalposts to “but they cost too much” and B) have no idea what the difference and usefulness and purpose of an AAV versus an a “air boat”. GFG. Try learning something next time before you arguing.
That’s quite a hover craft. I had no idea they could hover over such lumpy terrain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnLv3cEfSA
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