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geRV 05-18-2004 10:06 PM

[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":5515b][quote="Unknown_Sniper":5515b]hte bagpipers are the best, and bravest. They play music right in oncoming fire and they jsut keep on playing.[/quote:5515b]


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rock:[/quote:5515b]

I used to be in a pipe band funny enough, wearing a kilt the whole deal, me = side drummer and kilts = > you. biggrin:

Milla 05-18-2004 11:58 PM

I remember when the iraq war kicked off, Marines made a bayonet charge on the iraqis and slaughtered them.

ninty 05-19-2004 12:18 AM

Re: Bayonet charge in Iraq
 
[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":14764]I wager that being in a bayonet fight with these chaps isn't a nice way to go.

[img]http://www.barkingshins.com/am/real/argyll01.jpg[/img]


[i]SCOTTISH troops fixed bayonets and fought hand to hand with a Shi’ite militia in southern Iraq in one of their fiercest clashes since the war was declared more than a year ago, it was reported last night.

Soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mounted what were described as "classic infantry assaults" on firing and mortar positions held by more than 100 fighters loyal to the outlawed cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, according to military sources.

At least 20 men from al-Sadr’s army were believed killed in more than three hours of fighting - the highest toll reported in any single incident involving British forces in the past 12 months.

Nine fighters were captured and three British soldiers injured, none seriously.

"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead," one source was quoted as saying. "There were bodies floating in the river."

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were drawn into the fighting when soldiers in two Land-Rovers were ambushed on Friday afternoon about 15 miles east of the city of Amara. The soldiers escaped, only to be ambushed a second time by a larger group of militia, armed with machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.

Reinforcements were summoned from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment at a base nearby. "There was some pretty fierce hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets fixed," the source added. "There were some classic assaults on mortar positions held by the al-Sadr forces."

Official spokesman Major Ian Clooney confirmed the Mehdi army "took a pretty heavy knocking", but refused to specify tactics. "This was certainly an intense engagement," he added.

Details of the bloody clashes emerged amid reports that defence chiefs were privately discussing "strategic failure" in the conflict - and that MPs were trying to force a new Commons vote on the situation in Iraq. [/i]

Are these guys related to Nintys regiment?

[url="http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=559592004"]http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sc ... =559592004[/url][/quote:14764]

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders fucking rock rock:


The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are The Calgary Highlanders allie Regiment in the UK. We wear the same DEU's and share the same tartan. We do exercises with them every few years.

That story is just nuts.

http://members.shaw.ca/jpt0/Highland%20 ... 20Bear.mp3

Here's the Calg Highrs this past April:
[img]http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/2004photb.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/2004phota.jpg[/img]

http://www.calgaryhighlanders.com/

Infection_Smith@ 05-19-2004 01:46 AM

Repect...Men facing their enemy eye to eye. Dont see much that nowadays. Just alot of shooting everywhere and cruise missiles. War aint what it used to be.

imported_Fluffy_Bunny 05-19-2004 04:07 AM

I just noticed that the guys who were also called in for reinforcements were from my local county regiment in Kent Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment rock:

KTOG 05-19-2004 05:11 AM

People died

05-19-2004 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by KTOG
People died

yeah, that's generally a part of war...

Trunks 05-19-2004 01:44 PM

wow, just wow. ed: ed: ed:

Maplegyver 05-19-2004 05:20 PM

wow. i thought war was sopposed to be more humane now days.seems like were going back in time next it will be a line of redcoats shooting thier muskets at iraqi milita

Zap. USMC 05-19-2004 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maple
wow. i thought war was sopposed to be more humane now days.seems like were going back in time next it will be a line of redcoats shooting thier muskets at iraqi milita

well you see dumbass, the muskets were't that accurate so that's why they fought wars like that for awhile.. plus it was all about who's army was the best disciplined in battle and wouldn't retreat at the first volley of fire, etc

Trunks 05-19-2004 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maple
wow. i thought war was sopposed to be more humane now days.seems like were going back in time next it will be a line of redcoats shooting thier muskets at iraqi milita

lol. Next thing you know theyll start using sabers again.

Maplegyver 05-19-2004 06:35 PM

[quote="Zap. USMC":3cb70]
Quote:

Originally Posted by maple
wow. i thought war was sopposed to be more humane now days.seems like were going back in time next it will be a line of redcoats shooting thier muskets at iraqi milita

well you see dumbass, the muskets were't that accurate so that's why they fought wars like that for awhile.. plus it was all about who's army was the best disciplined in battle and wouldn't retreat at the first volley of fire, etc[/quote:3cb70]
was it nessicary to do a bayonet charge? why not draw them out and take prisoers?

Snuff 05-19-2004 06:38 PM

gut em

Madmartagen 05-19-2004 06:38 PM

[quote=maple]
Quote:

Originally Posted by "Zap. USMC":ba11c
Quote:

Originally Posted by maple
wow. i thought war was sopposed to be more humane now days.seems like were going back in time next it will be a line of redcoats shooting thier muskets at iraqi milita

well you see dumbass, the muskets were't that accurate so that's why they fought wars like that for awhile.. plus it was all about who's army was the best disciplined in battle and wouldn't retreat at the first volley of fire, etc

was it nessicary to do a bayonet charge? why not draw them out and take prisoers?[/quote:ba11c]

I'm guessing they didnt want to surrender oOo:

Maplegyver 05-19-2004 06:39 PM

[quote=Madmartagen]
Quote:

Originally Posted by maple
Quote:

Originally Posted by "Zap. USMC":b4a0a
Quote:

Originally Posted by maple
wow. i thought war was sopposed to be more humane now days.seems like were going back in time next it will be a line of redcoats shooting thier muskets at iraqi milita

well you see dumbass, the muskets were't that accurate so that's why they fought wars like that for awhile.. plus it was all about who's army was the best disciplined in battle and wouldn't retreat at the first volley of fire, etc

was it nessicary to do a bayonet charge? why not draw them out and take prisoers?

I'm guessing they didnt want to surrender oOo:[/quote:b4a0a]


ok then its just, in a way.


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