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French troops parachute into Kosovo
Reuters AlertNet ^
| 06 Oct 2004 16:47:00 GMT
| By Matthew Robinson
Posted on 10/06/2004 10:08:38 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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A little late aren't they?
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:08:38 AM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
There's a new cheese there.
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:09:59 AM PDT
by
LurkedLongEnough
(W+4 = Let Liberty Century Begin)
To: 11th_VA
A little late aren't they?They showed up to teach the remaining Serbian residents how to surrender. They're gonna cut up their 'chutes into thousands of white flags.
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:10:19 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Kerry could have left 'Nam within a week if Purple Hearts were awarded for shots to the foot.)
To: 11th_VA
"Here we come, to save the day..."
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:10:23 AM PDT
by
danneskjold
(All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the f%#@ are you guys doing up there?)
To: 11th_VA
Why did they jump from perfectly good aircraft?
I know, they were practicing surrendering to gravity.
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:10:51 AM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: 11th_VA
I guess they just seize the opportunity of this deployment in Kosovo to stage a real-life operational drop. There are other French troops in Kosovo, as I recall, but they're mechanized infantry and not Para.
To: LurkedLongEnough
To: 11th_VA
Look for them to drop into Iraq in about 2010.
To: 11th_VA
It must be difficult to control the parachute while simultaneously surrendering.
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:13:15 AM PDT
by
Coop
(In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
To: 11th_VA
WTF are they dropping onto a field that is already secured?
Or rather, wouldn't they have been better served landing at the airport and driving to where they are going?
A soldier who's just jumped out of an airplane is pretty much stationary - he's not going anywhere very fast.
To do their job in Kosovo, they're going to need vehicles. And they could just as easily have matched up with the vehicles at the airport instead of having someone drive them out to BFE just so they could get another pip on their jump wings.
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:13:40 AM PDT
by
jdege
To: 11th_VA
ok.... where are all these Iraqi terrorists those Americans have been talking about???
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:13:45 AM PDT
by
cjohnson7771
(Day of Accountability)
To: 11th_VA
"dirty-white canopies of"
How wonderfully appropriate. French Troops arrive with Govt issued Surrender Flags
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:14:26 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Vote Bush 2004-We cannot survive a 9-10 President in a 9-11 World)
To: 11th_VA
"WEEEEEEE SURRRRENDERRRRR!"
To: Atlantic Friend
NOW Kosovo is going to be pacified once and for all. The French paratroopers have arrived! Vive Liberte! Vive Fraternite! Vive Egalite!
To: cjohnson7771
ok.... where are all these Iraqi terrorists those Americans have been talking about??? ROFLMAO !!!
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:16:09 AM PDT
by
11th_VA
(John Kerry - America's first European ruler since King George)
To: 11th_VA
The farmers should sue for damage to their crops. Where's John Edwards when you need him?
To: alloysteel
Well, I'm all for Freedom, Brotherhood and Equality, personally.
To: 11th_VA
Were the French able to hit the target.
Some may have landed in other countries.
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:16:41 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Rather calls Saddam "Mister President" and calls President Bush "bush")
To: 11th_VA
A waste of some perfectly good parachutes!
Pray for W and Our Troops
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:17:19 AM PDT
by
bray
(Swifties Rock!!)
To: Jane_N; Lion in Winter; Destro; Honorary Serb; RussianConservative; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...
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posted on
10/06/2004 10:17:30 AM PDT
by
FormerLib
(Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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