Silver wiiings, upon their chessst...
No disrespect to our gallant Green Berets, this is just the scene that comes to my feeble mind...
Please don't break into my house and videotape me sleeping.
Thank you.
Posted on 03/06/2006 7:08:59 AM PST by Nextrush
I remember it.
40 years ago... My, time does fly.
Did you visit this page before posting?
Nearly every link on that page is dead.
BTW, I went to Airborne school with his son in 1986.
He died several years ago.
In 1988 he was shot in the head in a robbery attempt and suffered brain damage.He was living in Guatermala. Died of heart failure in November of 1989 in Tennessee.
No disrespect to our gallant Green Berets, this is just the scene that comes to my feeble mind...
Please don't break into my house and videotape me sleeping.
Thank you.
I got more records after I quit.
What kind of unit song sings about "jumping and dying?" In the Marines we actually get past the insertion method before we run the risk of dying. Paratroopers, they jump out of perfectly good planes - Shoosh!
As an army brat, I heard this song way too many times. Thanks for the good memories.
I read the biography at the bottom of the page, I didn't try the links.
It's an Airborne!!! thing, you wouldn't understand.
"Fighting soldiers from the sky...Fearless men who jump and die...Men who mean just what they say...The brave men of the Green Berets..."
The Green Berets have saved our country from many a catastrophe. God Bless them...
Posted on 01/07/2002 5:54:17 PM PST by doug from upland
They're known as Tiger 03…they are fierce as they can be
They're the best…what can we say…those brave men in a Green Beret
Thirteen hundred they would chase…there's no look of fear on their face
Lord, give me strength, each one would pray…those brave young men in a Green Beret
The word "can't" they do not know…orders come, they're set to go
Eighteen strong, they won the day…those brave men in a Green Beret
Lightly armed and on the move…purposeful, with something to prove
Some 50 tanks were blown away…those brave young men in a Green Beret
The next battle they prepare…our spirit's with them over there
They defend the USA…those brave men in a Green Beret
God bless each one who risks it all…thanks to them, enemies will fall
They're eighteen strong, they won the day…those brave men in a Green Beret
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1,300 enemy men killed by handful of Green Berets
LondonTelegraph ^ | 1/8/02
Posted on 01/07/2002 4:36:14 PM PST by NativeNewYorker
AN American special forces team was credited yesterday with the deaths of 1,300 Taliban and al-Qa'eda fighters and the destruction of more than 50 tanks and other pieces of heavy weaponry.
The so-called A-team, codenamed Tiger 03, which directed American bombers to enemy positions, helped to unseat the Taliban and made a huge contribution to the war, its commander said.
The first details of the covert operations of the A-teams, each composed of up to 18 lightly armed infantrymen and air controllers, were released after the Pentagon allowed reporters to spend three days with different units operating within Afghanistan.
"We killed a lot of people here," "Kevin", the senior non-commissioned officer in Tiger 03, told USA Today.
Tiger 03 was one of at least a dozen Green Beret teams inserted by helicopter from Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan after Oct 20.
The first task for Kevin and his colleagues, none of whose full names can be used under US army reporting restrictions, was to establish links with local commanders of the Northern Alliance, which at the time was hemmed in by Taliban and al-Qa'eda forces.
Although some of the unit's members were fluent in Arabic, none spoke Dari, the predominant local language, so after making contact with local military chiefs, they communicated largely in sign language until trusted interpreters could be recruited.
The alliance was doubtful about the capabilities of the unexpected visitors and, at first, would not take the A-team up to the front lines.
"We weren't really wanted," said Kevin. "We had to prove ourselves and they weren't really happy to see us until the first bombs hit."
Among the most important pieces of equipment carried by the special forces units were laser-designating devices, used to help bombers to destroy ground targets.
Tiger 03 used its targeting expertise for the first time on Oct 28, on a Taliban defensive position near the deserted town of Zard Kammar in the north-east of Afghanistan.
A B-52 bomber following an infra-red designation beam dropped a full load of 2,000lb bombs in a direct hit on the Taliban bunkers.
"It lifted the whole top of the hill two feet in the air," Kevin said. "Mark", an engineering specialist with the unit, said: "People were lining up and clapping when we got back to the [base].
"They were slapping us on the back. It seemed like the more accurate the bombing, the better they fed us."
Tiger 03 spent weeks touring front-line positions, bringing in a rain of destruction from the air on the Taliban and al-Qa'eda and winning the admiration of their new allies. They developed tactics as they went, Kevin said.
The team's targeters noticed that often when bombs were striking Taliban targets, nearby comrades would come out of their bunkers to watch, so the American special forces co-ordinated attacks to start a minute or two later on emplacements close to their original targets.
"A good controller can sequence planes and munitions to accomplish what you want," said Kevin.
"You bomb one side of a hill and push them in one direction, then bomb the next hill over and push guys the other way. Then, when they're all bunched up, you bring in more planes and drop right on them. Eventually they learn, but then you start doing something else."
Tiger 03 had had occasional direct contact with its enemies, but tried to stay remote from the ground fighting, according to "JJ", the team's intelligence specialist.
"Our mission is not necessarily to outfight the enemy," he said. "We would rather out-think them."
Col John Mulholland, commanding officer of the A-teams, said they had exerted "a greater impact on the outcome of this war than anyone".
"John", another member of the team, said: "This area was full of Pakistanis and Arabs and Chechens and al-Qa'eda, and we knew they would fight to the death. There are bandits and diseases and brutal weather, so we were prepared to lose our lives."
Kevin added: "None of us expected to survive, but it went just about as perfectly as you could hope."
"Oh...they used to wake us up to that tune at the Airborne (Parachutist) Course at Fort Benning in the 80's."
At other times it was "Blood on the risers"
Thank you for that thought. It is greatly appreciated.
LOL! And don't forget "Beautiful Streamer".
The only #1 song ever to result from a John Wayne movie.
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