Posted on 10/28/2004 6:13:45 PM PDT by dinok
Senior officers with the Black Watch battle group sent north to replace American soldiers believe that the Government agreed to send them there without properly understanding the risks the troops face.
They said the United States marines they were replacing had suffered more than 200 casualties, including nine dead, since July.
"We expect every lunatic terrorist from miles around to descend on us like bees to honey," a high-ranking officer said in an e-mail home this week.
Speaking at Basra before boarding an aircraft, 19-year-old Pte Manny Lynch, from Fife, admitted that he was nervous.
"We have controlled the situation down here while the Americans seem to have ruined it up there."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Well then, KILL THEM.
"Well then, KILL THEM."
I don't think it occured to him...no wonder why they are deactivating this unit. In WWII my dad said the skirt boys in the black watch were tough...these guys seem whipped before they got to the front.
It seems the kilts have become skirts.
Yeah I thought this Black Watch bunch was supposed to be tough. This boy was just 19 and whineing like a little girl?
The girlie men are heard from.
I thought the Black watch were supposed to be tough
What's wrong with these guys? I thought their nickname was the "ladies from hell".
Is the pantyhose under their kilt too tight?
I thought their nickname was the "ladies from hell".
No...now its just ladies.
They will give the French a good name...
You're soldiers - deal with it.
this is from the same paper that gives out a free copy of, get this,......the New York Times......every Thursday.
They have lost the plot, ever since Conrad Black lost control.
I think, hope once they are in place, they will do ok. It is a pretty bad area. But I am sure some Marines had stayed behind to bring their advanced group fully up on things. Surely they have similiar fire power for cordon and search and recon type patrols. I bet it is the patrol aspect tht is bugging them. Now they have to send platoons out into a new area that is known to often harvest insurgents. I wish them well.
Oh boo hoo, we might get hurt, lets go home.
Correction...they were soldiers.
American Forces have shouldered the burden of the fight in Iraq. Our Allies and Contractors have held lots of ground not contested on a daily basis. These poor wretched souls who complain can take comfort, again, that it is the Americans who will do the fighting in F-town.... and then they will, again, be safer due to the elimination of yet another contested area in Iraq's midst!
Heh. Reverse psychology. "Appear weak. Attract villains. Wipe out same." A form of Strategery that works every time it's tried.
Ya know? If 99 guys said something positive or nothing at all and one or 2 said something negative - guess what gets the press. C'mon - this is a Great Unit. Reserve comment until after the fact. Speculation/opinions is like lower sphincters - everybody has one.
I appreciate their help and I'm pretty certain they are tough enough to handle what comes along. Good luck to them and bad luck to those that cross them over there.
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