Posted on 05/18/2004 3:06:01 PM PDT by amakua
May 16, 2004 Go UK!!!!! First Bayonet Charge since the Falklands War British troops in Iraq perform their first bayonet charge since the Falklands War. 35 insurgents were killed, while only 3 British troops were wounded. Isn't it ironic that only a few days after Nick Berg was beheaded, that the same terrorist scum feel cold steel themselves. Turn about is fair play.
From Scotland on Sunday Paper
Argylls fight hand to hand in Iraq
BRIAN BRADY WESTMINSTER EDITOR
SCOTTISH troops fixed bayonets and fought hand to hand with a Shi’ite militia in southern Iraq in one of their fiercest clashes since the war was declared more than a year ago, it was reported last night.
Soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mounted what were described as "classic infantry assaults" on firing and mortar positions held by more than 100 fighters loyal to the outlawed cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, according to military sources.
At least 20 men from al-Sadr’s army were believed killed in more than three hours of fighting - the highest toll reported in any single incident involving British forces in the past 12 months.
Nine fighters were captured and three British soldiers injured, none seriously.
"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead," one source was quoted as saying. "There were bodies floating in the river."
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were drawn into the fighting when soldiers in two Land-Rovers were ambushed on Friday afternoon about 15 miles east of the city of Amara. The soldiers escaped, only to be ambushed a second time by a larger group of militia, armed with machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
Reinforcements were summoned from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment at a base nearby. "There was some pretty fierce hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets fixed," the source added. "There were some classic assaults on mortar positions held by the al-Sadr forces."
Official spokesman Major Ian Clooney confirmed the Mehdi army "took a pretty heavy knocking", but refused to specify tactics. "This was certainly an intense engagement," he added.
Ask AR about that....
That was a very nasty and hard fought campaign.
And those that weren't kilt got the shiite whupped out of them!
"Ladies from Hell", as the Krauts called them.
It has a nice ring to it.
Heads?! . . . Heads?! . . .
Why I believe you might be right sarge, I guess these guys did have heads when they came in here!
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.
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.
I hope these type of reports continue.
That third guy in don't look too Scottish to me.
"The quick, Drill Sergeant!"
(Sneer) "You look like the dead to me."
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!!!
I JUST LOVE THOSE SCOTS!
being a marine vet and a calvinist how could you not!
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!!!!"
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.
Oc course he doesn't, those are proud members of the 82nd airborne.
"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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