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U.S. Marines find donkeys fitting allies in Afghan hills
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Posted on 08/14/2005 2:00:59 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
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To: F14 Pilot
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posted on
08/14/2005 5:41:28 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: F14 Pilot
This is what I love about the marines.
Adapt and overcome.
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posted on
08/14/2005 5:48:00 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: F14 Pilot
Was you ever in Fortune Bay
See the girls all shout, "Hooray!"?
"Here comes dad with ten weeks pay
Ridin on a donkey."
Way hey and away we go
Donkey riding, donkey riding
Way hey and away we go
Ridin' on a donkey.
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posted on
08/14/2005 5:55:12 AM PDT
by
wildehunt
(i told them they'd need horses...)
To: Graybeard58
The animal in your photo looks like a small mule. The slender head and short (for a donkey) ears indicate "mule" to this old mule skinner.
An intertesting combat story on mules: there were several instances during the Korean War where US troops captured mules being used by the NKs and Chineese. When these mules were inspected, they were found to have US Army tatoos. They were mules that the US had sent to China during WWII!
Standjng orders at the time was to NOT use mules for US supply duties in Korea, somehow the front line guys "forgot" that order, and the former US mules were put back in service.
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posted on
08/14/2005 7:01:16 AM PDT
by
wrench
To: F14 Pilot
...determination to try to mate when untied frustrated the marines.
Send in the Marines. It takes that kind of steely determination to deal with donkeys.
This is a great little story about our remote troops in the Afghan hills. We don't seen enough stories these days on our troops there and the progress we've made.
To: wrench
The slender head and short (for a donkey) ears indicate "mule" to this old mule skinner.
That's what I thought too. My grandfather loved (and hated) mules. He kept them around for a long time.
In this high-tech era, who would have predicted a return to patrolling with pack animals?
Great story about those double-agent mules in Korea.
To: Poster
Small correction: Bridgeport is in California
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posted on
08/14/2005 8:31:19 AM PDT
by
grayeagle
(Ronald Reagan -- the President of my lifetime.)
To: WakeUpAndVote
This is not a joking matter. Not joking here. And I wasn't looking for a history lecture. Merely pointing out the incongruity of the satellite dish on the house in the background.
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posted on
08/14/2005 9:13:39 AM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: WideGlide
oooppppps!
sorry.
I am just a history buff that is way pro vet and military. I just got inspired and had to spew history.
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posted on
08/14/2005 11:41:02 AM PDT
by
WakeUpAndVote
(Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since 1992!)
To: WakeUpAndVote
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posted on
08/14/2005 11:47:53 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: choclabguy
I have seen Tents over there with a dish. just a bunch of goats and a dish on a tent pole.
Sounds like my Air Guard unit in the field. Minus the goats of course, LOL! Everywhere we go we take our DirecTv dish.
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posted on
08/14/2005 11:52:26 AM PDT
by
Tailback
(USAF distinguished rifleman badge #300, German Schutzenschnur in Gold)
To: WakeUpAndVote
I saw a show on the Discover Channel about the MWTC quite a while back. It had a little bit about the mules. Interesting.
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posted on
08/14/2005 11:55:43 AM PDT
by
kms61
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