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On the ground report of British forces heroism in Kabul
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1429328715994050563.html ^

Posted on 08/22/2021 8:45:45 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

From Tweets sent by Jane Ferguson - PBS reporter

1. The #BritishMilitary here at #KabulAirport have shown breathtaking levels of toughness, professionalism and - rare in war times I must say - compassion. I've been moved to tears by their actions, diving into dangerous crowds to pull visa-holders into the base....

2. ...guarding sleeping women and children, helping them find the right transportation to the US air strip for their flights, pulling their own food out of their pockets and handing it to refugees in need, sleeping out on the cement, little supplies, parched in the sun...

3. ....there are young men here who have lost their voices days ago, sunburned faces, dusty uniforms, exhausted, still working to help people in what is. humanitarian mission few soldiers are really prepared for....

4.... They are strict about not being filmed, so I don't have many pics and videos sadly, but plenty of notes and memories of kindness and bravery. "We want to help people too," one of them told me when I thanked him....


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: britishheroes; kabul; military
Original Twitter thread here

https://twitter.com/JaneFerguson5/status/1429328715994050563

1 posted on 08/22/2021 8:45:45 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

Our guys refuse to be seen in public because they’re all wearing the same outfit. Welcome to Biden’s Woke, feminized Military.


2 posted on 08/22/2021 8:50:27 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: LIConFem

Your guys are tough as nails and as brave as lions.

It’s the woke upper echelon (and of course your abysmal CinC) who are the problem.

Lions led by the Donkey Party.


3 posted on 08/22/2021 9:08:07 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for True Pope Benedict XVI and True President Donald J Trump)
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To: agere_contra

Agree. Although ours aren’t much better but they at least let the guys do their jobs.


4 posted on 08/22/2021 9:14:09 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
Photo from the ground. This is what they are working with "2 Para" for those that don't know is the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment E9-Qe-Nl-MXMAIah-Pf
5 posted on 08/22/2021 9:15:35 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
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To: agere_contra
"Your guys are tough as nails and as brave as lions."

For now. But I can't help but wonder how things will be after the military finishes its planned purge of all "extremists" (i.e.Conservaties, Republicans, Trunp supporters, 2A supporters, et cetera).

I shudder to think of what will be left.
6 posted on 08/22/2021 9:18:50 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

I’d also like to give a shout out to the heroism of the Afghan commandos.

They only ever made up 7% of Afghan ground forces, but did all the fighting and most of the dying.

They had the Taliban on the run (yes really!) - but then Biden betrayed them.

Now they are (mostly) in Baghlan province fighting the Taliban, and waiting for Biden to find some other way to screw them over.


7 posted on 08/22/2021 9:19:32 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for True Pope Benedict XVI and True President Donald J Trump)
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To: LIConFem

I hear that. And not just political purging.

IIRC the FDA are pushing for full approval of the ‘vaccines’, which may mean that your soldiers will have to accept injection with these dangerous, poorly tested therapeutics or leave.

Hope De Santis or Trump get to clean house.


8 posted on 08/22/2021 9:25:49 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for True Pope Benedict XVI and True President Donald J Trump)
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To: agere_contra

Agree also.


9 posted on 08/22/2021 9:29:40 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
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To: agere_contra

From your mouth to Gods ear. We need to stop the purging of the military.


10 posted on 08/22/2021 9:31:36 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

It’s a bit karmic as the British are being paid back for their country’s collusion with the fraudulent Russia/Steele dossier attacking Candidate Trump.


11 posted on 08/22/2021 10:18:22 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Bollocks. Idiot.


12 posted on 08/22/2021 10:21:08 AM PDT by Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

I give it another couple of months and the left coast will make a movie of our exit from Afstan.


13 posted on 08/22/2021 11:11:00 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

Thought Biden was suppose to speak at 4 pm.


14 posted on 08/22/2021 11:15:53 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

You’re too kind.


15 posted on 08/22/2021 11:21:17 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

Hi.

Good to see the UK and France actually doing something.

Biden needs a nap, and Milley is reading the “Communist Manifesto,” by Marx and Ingels

My country is in great jeopardy.

5.56mm


16 posted on 08/22/2021 11:29:28 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Absolutely Spiffing Old Bean

I trained with these guys, they are tough cookies, no B.S. That was 50 years ago, not too sure about the toughness of our guys right now I am afraid to say. I think training has been downgraded and to much emphasis on diversity and social nonsense. But what do I know , I’m just an old fogey.


17 posted on 08/22/2021 1:27:07 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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