Posted on 08/22/2021 3:39:05 PM PDT by Chgogal
A team of Special Air Service soldiers who were surrounded by Taliban hordes in Kandahar have been rescued in a dramatic desert operation.
Around 20 elite SAS troops were left stranded in the province hundreds of miles from friendly forces when the militants took over.
As enemy fighters closed in they sent an SOS request to Special Forces bosses back in Britain calling for immediate extraction.
But they could not use Kandahar airfield – once home to 26,000 international troops at the height of the military campaign – because it had already been overrun by Taliban. So the SAS soldiers fought their way to a secret desert location where they went into hiding. The coordinates of the location were then relayed back to Special Forces headquarters in a series of coded messages……..
On Wednesday night online flight trackers picked up a UK Hercules transport aircraft flying over the Gulf, until it turned off its Identification Friend or Foe sensors. This ensured flight radars could not follow its route towards the area of desert scrub which SAS troops had identified as a possible landing strip.
The aircraft, from the RAF’s Special Forces wing, made a dramatic landing in the dead of night with the crew wearing digital night-vision goggles.
A source said: ‘It was a very hush, hush mission. Kandahar had fallen to the Taliban on Friday and the guys were down there for five days after that. The enemy were rampant and killing a lot of Afghan Special Forces whom the SAS had been working with. So it was a very urgent mission…….
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Patriot Games
Just curious: Were the Brits involved with all the fake anti-Trump conspiracy crap?
Here’s my take, their going to wait until the planes of US troops are loaded and taking off. Why start something now with US troops on the ground.
Their swamp is probably much deeper than ours, they've been at it longer.
Perssi was one fine woman
These GD traitors need to forcibly removed from the WH and Congress.
They are the enemy which is domestic!!!!
"Who Dares Wins"
Aside from the UK SAS, the SAS of the Aussies and the Kiwis use the same motto, as does Israel's Sayeret Matkal.
No such luck, America.
Why should the Brits be so exercised about what
Biden has done in Afghanistan? Their aid to the
Democrats help install the President they wanted.
It seems to me they must approve of his policies.
Learn to live with your actions socialist Britain.
Is our entire military now over run with woke fagotry and unable to function at all? Is it just our inept leaders and commanders? Do our enemies sense we are truly a paper tiger as China claims. We give the Taliban 600,000 M4’s (AR15) and enough ammo to shoot for 100 years and Biden wants to take all of ours away and we don’t have any ammo?
>>Let’s see how eager the left will be to keep Biden in office when one of those planes are hit<<
Does anyone really think that the RATs really care if one of the planes go down?
The RATs will not only be willing to sacrifice any number of planes and passengers — they’re willing to sacrifice all 50 states and its inhabitants.
Eddie Stone would be proud.
One would hope that at least those stinger rockets and drones have a way to be deactivated.
I’ve encountered some Army Nat Guard boys/girls here in Indiana who I thought were really excellent folks. Like plumbers and welders and nurses in their day job.
Can’t speak for the full timers.
It should have been handled like Trump said last night... get civilians out.. troops out.. and bomb the hell out of it.
That language works.
Unfreakinbelievable.
Watching now. He is horrified by Biden’s inept folly.
The British Army has put us to shame. God bless the SAS.
Or the Don.
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