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I'll only say this. When the British elite Black Watch BN moved up north to FOB Mahmudiyah, they replace US Marines 2/2 whom my nephew was deployed with, who moved from FOB M, to camp MEK (Fallujah). The Black Watch soldiers had to pretty quickly get onboard with cordon and search/patrol operations as the Marines where doing in the AOR. As far as I remember reading during the 2004 period they where in the triangle of death area, they did damn well. They got some!
No shitting around. They had a critical MO. As US Marines congregated in the Fallujah area, town of Karma to the NE some miles preparing for the battle in Fallujah, the Black Watch made themselves proud by holding down their new AOR.
So perhaps it has something to do with a particular command, to some extent. I am not attempting to say this article is in-accurate. But at least some of our cousins across the pond did a bit of "get some", while in a very dangerous area for a couple of months. They did themselves proud.

You are soooooo right and isn't it interesting the British Government just disbanded the 'Black Watch'?????????????
I also read a report in which a Brit General called the US forces 'swaggering John Waynes'....maybe that's because when the bastards try to kill us we feel OK about shooting back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"As US Marines congregated in the Fallujah area, town of Karma to the NE some miles preparing for the battle in Fallujah, the Black Watch made themselves proud by holding down their new AOR."

Good point. It seems plausible that the officers of an elite command would tend to be stronger in resisting this sort of nonsense.

I realize most people don't agree with me that the Russians have penetrated many institutions in democracies around the world by inserting their agents of influence there, but can we agree that this story, along with the Pantano story (US Marines) and others---emit a strong odor of traitors? Or does everyone really believe that policies such as this are the result of well-meaning incompetence? Because my blood is boiling.