Posted on 03/29/2016 1:20:16 PM PDT by Trump-a-licious
A Russian special forces soldier appears to have pulled a move straight out of an action movie, calling down an airstrike on himself after he was discovered by ISIS troops in Syria, Reuters reports. According to AFP, the soldier was on a week-long mission identifying ISIS targets and passing the coordinates along for airstrikes. He called for his final, dramatic airstrike at some point in the past week near Palmyra. "The soldier died heroically, calling the strike onto himself after he was discovered and surrounded by terrorists," Reuters quotes the Interfax news agency.
The Russian soldier is at least the seventh killed in Syria since Russia launched a military campaign in the Middle Eastern country back in September. But it was only this week that Russia finally admitted it had special forces soldiers participating in combat missions inside Syria. Syrian troops entered Palmyra on Thursday. It had been held by ISIS since last May.
Better than being captured by ISIS.
That’s how a real strategy works.
Still a brave man
“Better than being captured by ISIS.”
Not according to their BFF in DC, who praises and thanks them for capturing/murdering our guys.
“Broken Arrow”.
If he is Anti-Rabid Islam, I am on his side.
May this incredibly brave HERO rest in peace.
Are you freekin' kidding me? Sure as shooting I would call an airstrike on myself! You think I'd let the ISIS Satanists behead me on YouTube for my children and all the world to see?
"Popping smoke. Light me up."
what guts ...
this was a man...
Trump would of taken them out with hand-to-hand combat.
“For the record, it’s my call. Dump everything you’ve got left on my pos. I say again, expend all remaining in my perimeter. It’s a lovely f....ng war. Bravo Six out.” - Capt. Harris (Dale Dye) - Platoon
at the end of the Russell Crowe movie, Gladiator the daughter of the dead Emperor says to pick the gladiator up him up and carry him, to honor him..
“He was a soldier of (Rome/Russia)”
her own cowardly brother the new Emperor lay also dead in the dust and she passed him by without a word...(Obama)
True.
Lol
He would have sued them first.
Love them or hate them but the Russians are a very tough and passionate race. And one way or another they’ve been fighting Islam for a thousand plus years.
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