[af_vet_rr]

What was the Colonels name that ordered his troops to take a knee on TV yesterday to defuse the near riot while trying to inspect a mosque ?

I don't know that he was a Colonel, but he appeared to have had some sort of special operations training before - he seemed to know how to deal with the natives, he defused a very bad situation in a matter of minutes.

Only one of the stations showed the entire footage - they were completly surrounded and incredibly outnumbered. Shows how professional our troops our, lesser trained troops might have gotten scared and somebody might have opened up, turning the place into a bloodbath and getting our troops killed.

[Squantos]

Sweat in training beats blood in battle anyday as you well know. The role playing we encountered in training included such scenerios even before I retired. I'm told today after Bosnia piece (sic) keeping it is even better and clearly this officer and his men knew the drill well.

Stay Safe !

[AngryJawa]

"Only one of the stations showed the entire footage - they were completly surrounded and incredibly outnumbered. Shows how professional our troops our, lesser trained troops might have gotten scared and somebody might have opened up, turning the place into a bloodbath and getting our troops killed."

This footage belongs in some future command training video - smiling troops included. Kudos to the troops for keeping cool when the pucker factor is running high.