British Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan
ITN's Bill Neely reports during a firefight in Afghanistan.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=158_1179583583
Quite a nice video of the lads!
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British Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan
British Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan
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Could have been down to a number of reasons.GreyWing wrote:2 hours in a firefight, where the hell is the air?
There may have been a bigger contact elsewhere in the area and fast air would have been sent to assist that. Or there might have been fast air on station in their area but they decided to hold it off until the right moment. As you saw, the enemy were only 100 or so metres away and they were pushing troops up to assault the positions...no way your going to drop ordinance onto the enemy when friendly troops are so close.
Fast air also scares the enemy away. So Royal might have used its brain and held off the air 10 miles or so away and kept the enemy in the battle, so they were sure to kill them.
Or it could have been the case that the pilot was someone who's english wasnt that good so it took a while to talk him onto the target, or that the FAC was inexperienced and was having trouble himself talking to pilot onto the target.
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In Kajaki air was dropping 500 pounders 100 meters from us, and 81mm at 200m. Sh*t my pants. One of the lads got hit by some debris from the 500 lb bomb, lucky he was wearing his cba filler not just the plates!!!Paratrooper01 wrote: As you saw, the enemy were only 100 or so metres away and they were pushing troops up to assault the positions...no way your going to drop ordinance onto the enemy when friendly troops are so close.
Big mark but no injury!