Guard Soldiers Fight 'Battle of the Boneyard' in Afghanistan

DoD - Special to American Forces Press Service ^ | Oct. 28, 2003 | Master Sgt. Bob Haskell

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"I was in a rage. I can still hear the 'Whack! Whack! Whack!' of the bullets going by my head," said Hanley about what seemed like an eternity pinned down near the wall. "I was amazed at how quickly everyone got into the business of fighting. It was like we all decided it's grown-up time, so let's do this right," he added. "I learned that there are times when you have to give your faith to others. You have to believe they will fight to save you."

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Details of the Oct. 12 battle where our heroes captured 17 Afghan militants.
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[Old Sarge]

The obligatory dissing of the National Guard as wussy weekend warriors, punctuated by the ancient perjorative "Semper Weekendis", will commence in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..

[Pro-Bush]

BUMP!

[colorado tanker]

So, the Taliboneheads could have let the convoy pass through without firing a shot and alerting the Guard to their presence? They chose poorly.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Who would dare diss the National Guard today?

Bring 'em on! (^:

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Bump!

Taliboneheads, lol.

[mystery-ak]

Im sick of the dissing of the Guard and Reserves.....bump this article.

Griff...take a look.

[M1Tanker]

Outstanding action by the Guard. That's several more Taliban....now Talibones that will not shoot women in soccer stadiums or plot to destroy the USA (and Europe, though we can't convince the Europeans they are targets too).

[cavtrooper21]

I'll not "dis" them. Sounds like they did ok, kept up good unit cohesion and managed to hit the enemy a few times. A good job realizing that they are not full timers and they don't get the chance to practice things like this as much as regular troops do.
I rather think that if the Taliban had run into my platoon(from GW1), there would have been dead Taliban on site and a few more DOA at the local hospital, I really do.
But we might have had someone on our side killed too, but we understood that was the risk going in, so we were a bit more agressive than some folks.

[Moose4]

You won't hear any dissing of the Guard from me. I had too many friends serve in the Guard--116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, to be exact. All the folks I knew that put on the 29th's blue-and-gray patch knew well the legacy they were inheriting, from Omaha Beach onward, and they took it damned seriously.

}:-)4

[Old Sarge]

National Guard PING

[tet68]

Who would dare diss the National Guard today?

I'm with you, I'm proud to call myself a former Marine and I'll always hold them in the highest regard, but the time of interservice rivalry ended on 911.

Go Guard!

Semper Fi.
Tet68

[Old Sarge]

29th ID: One helluva unit.

[colorado tanker]

Yep. Slowly, but surely, they're being rounded up. R.G. has posted several articles showing good progress by the Pakistanis on their side of the border, where a lot of these bad guys hide out. But I betcha won't see this story in the "mainstream" press tomarrow.

[Poohbah]

No dissin' of the Guard here.

Bet it just chapped the Talibunnies' posteriors, though, when they found out that reservists beat the crap out of them. (Outside the US, there is no such thing as "Total Force." The title "reservist" is really a bigtime insult overseas.)

[niteowl77]

Isn't it good to hear something about the guard without a single bit of social commentary? It sounds like some older heads know how to play the game; I keep telling the lad to watch the "coots" if he wants to see how it's done.

[Old Sarge]

Who would dare diss the National Guard today? I'm with you, I'm proud to call myself a former Marine and I'll always hold them in the highest regard, but the time of interservice rivalry ended on 911.

Not here on Free Republic, FRiend.

I have endured insults on other threads because I'm currrently Active Guard - been that way almost constant since after 11 SEP - and not a Marine. Therefore, I don't know what I'm talking about.

I have been castigated because I didn't serve in Vietnam, therefore I don't know what I'm talking about.

I have been flamed elsewhere on this forum because, when I share my active duty knowledge with "patriotic" FReepers, I'm not only accused of not knowing what I'm talking about, but that I'm making it all up, and that I'm probably just some beer-guzzling racist from Appalachia.

I get treated better on Democratic Underground, than I do here. At least, they're honest in their prejudicial hate.

[colorado tanker]

It really helps, R.C., that the bad guys often get a case of the stupids.

BTW, you aren't a Wyomingite are you? Ragtime Cowboy Joe is the UW fight song.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"The obligatory dissing of the National Guard"

Do me a favor, whenever you see someone on FR
dissing the National Guard OR anyone in the military ping me to it.
Anyone who reads the warning on my FReeper profile will see why I want to be pinged.
And
Thank You for your service to our country.
SALUTE