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First Bayonet Charge Since the Falklands (IRAQ)
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Posted on 05/18/2004 3:06:01 PM PDT by amakua
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To: Taquito; ALOHA RONNIE
The order to "fix bayonets" was given during the Battle for the Ia Drang valley in Vietnam if I'm not mistaken. I think there was one or more instances in the current Iraq war as well. Ask AR about that....
To: Pearls Before Swine
The largest number of VCs won in a single day was 24 at the second relief of Lucknow on 16 Nov 1857 during the Indian Mutiny. That was a very nasty and hard fought campaign.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:36:51 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: reagan_fanatic
Ha. The Shiites got kilt by the men in kilts. Double Ha-Ha! And those that weren't kilt got the shiite whupped out of them!
To: amakua
"Ladies from Hell", as the Krauts called them.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:38:02 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:38:02 PM PDT
by
John Lenin
(If there were no God, there would be no Atheists)
To: amakua
"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead . . . There were bodies floating in the river."It has a nice ring to it.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:38:17 PM PDT
by
Oatka
To: amakua
Heads?! . . . Heads?! . . .
Why I believe you might be right sarge, I guess these guys did have heads when they came in here!
To: Taquito
US Marines featured on part of Discovery Channel's 1 year anniversary of the Iraq invasion talked about bayonetting Iraqi's as they swept through the outskirts of Baghdad.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:42:06 PM PDT
by
Ajnin
To: amakua
These are some very tough customers. Twenty of the enemy dead, only three of their own wounded. Hats off to them. Glad they're on our side.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:42:07 PM PDT
by
Rocky
(Kerry cannot decide what style of empty suit he should be)
To: Oatka
"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead,"
I hope these type of reports continue.
To: amakua
![](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rgrommel/personal/images/favorites/braveheart.jpg)
Highlander Bayonet Charge Bump
To: John Lenin
That third guy in don't look too Scottish to me.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:45:15 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Hey, I wouldn't touch Camryn Manheim's uterus on a bet.)
To: snopercod
"What kind of bayonet fighters are you, trainees?"
"The quick, Drill Sergeant!"
(Sneer) "You look like the dead to me."
To: dd5339; Vic3O3
The Brits amy have some screwy things going on at home, but there's nothing wrong with the fighting spirit of the troops!!
Just a little WOG BASHING!!!
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:51:44 PM PDT
by
cavtrooper21
(Response times: My 12 gauge - 30 seconds / my .45 - 4 seconds/ Local police - ?)
To: amakua
I JUST LOVE THOSE SCOTS!
being a marine vet and a calvinist how could you not!
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:54:58 PM PDT
by
alpha-8-25-02
(saved by GRACE and GRACE alone)
To: SAMWolf
The cry of the bayonet fighter; "More Ammo!!"
Cry of the loan survivor of a Highlander bayonet charge,
"Go back, It's a trap, the're two o' em!!!!"
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:58:21 PM PDT
by
ancient_geezer
(Equality, the French disease: Everyone is equal beneath the guillotine.)
To: amakua
Recalls the story from a few weeks ago of the young Salvadoran soldier with his pocket knife sending a group of these thugs dead, dying, and running for their pathetic lives. It appears these posers are better at cowardly terrorist bombings against innocent women and children than facing a cold blade wielded by a real man with cojones.
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posted on
05/18/2004 3:58:42 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(fidelis)
To: atomicpossum
Oc course he doesn't, those are proud members of the 82nd airborne.
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posted on
05/18/2004 4:08:56 PM PDT
by
John Lenin
(If there were no God, there would be no Atheists)
To: amakua
Together in peace, together in war.
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posted on
05/18/2004 4:13:47 PM PDT
by
TonyInOhio
(Thus is faith: To believe, but not to have seen.)
To: amakua
"First Bayonet Charge since the Falklands War"
Did their super duper British rifles jam again?
If you are close enough to stick them, you are close enough to shoot them!
None the less, GOOD JOB!
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