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No I’m not stating that. The Poles are there and we worked with them a lot!

Their 6th Polish ABN Brigade fought with 1AD in Karbala against Sadr. I'm not saying the Poles are not in Iraq. They run the DIV HQ for the multi-national division and have something like 3000 men there and a Grom (Spelling) Special Forces unit which conducts a lot of missions.

I wasn't being sarcastic either. The nitpicking is because MANY use our equipment. Our M4, PLGRS (GPS), body armor to NVGs and even our uniform is used by other countries. A lot of our stuff simply works real well. The Germans are going to build the M107 (Of course they’ll call it something else) themselves. After bad mouthing 5.56mm for 20 years the Germans adopted it in their new weapon the G36. In fact, their G36 is an AR18 in design. We simply spend a lot of time thinking up better ways of killing people, have lots of experience, a robust infrastructure and military design (R&D, test and evaluation and procurement) and spend about 3 times on R&D test and evaluation what Europe COMBINED spends. I sound brainwashed, but it’s simply a fact and those whose life is on the line and have the means to buy our stuff often do. The British SAS used the M4 carbine, not their own SA80! Want the best body armor out there for infantry? Buy IBA. Ever see our guys stand in the desert next to some Ausies? I like the Aussies, but their cammo is almost bright yellow and sticks out compared to our desert pattern. It looks cool, but it don’t work well. Why mention this? Because others use a lot of our equipment. Only the flag on the shoulder is certain that those are Americans and the equipment is just compounding evidence.

I kind find you pics of Polish troops in Iraq if you want them? Easy enough.

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