I know for some of you kiddies the Soviet Union is a semi-mythical beast from a distant past. Others of us mis-spent our youth doing things like grabbing the nukes, tossing them into the trucks and heading out to Tactical Assembly Areas in the woods of then-West Germany while Ronnie and Leonid sent "messages" to each other.
So pictures like this, of Ukrainians, armed with AKs, jumping out of Chinooks, in Poland, cause old filters to flicker in consternation.
Of course, this *is* pretty much *exactly* the outcome we were seeking, ainnit? Well, maybe not *exactly* but certainly in a broad-brush sense.
Ukranian Special Forces exit a U.S. Army MH-47G Chinook helicopter during a rehearsal for the opening exercise of Jackal Stone 10 in Poland, Sept. 19, 2010. Jackal Stone 10, hosted by Poland and Lithuania, is an annual international special operations forces exercise held in Europe and coordinated with U.S. Special Operations Command Europe. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jason Cauley.
I don't care who you are - it still looks like a frog barfing when a Chinook disgorges troops like that.
Slightly larger version available by clicking here, for you defying-the-laws-of-nature groupies.
So pictures like this, of Ukrainians, armed with AKs, jumping out of Chinooks, in Poland, cause old filters to flicker in consternation.
Of course, this *is* pretty much *exactly* the outcome we were seeking, ainnit? Well, maybe not *exactly* but certainly in a broad-brush sense.
Ukranian Special Forces exit a U.S. Army MH-47G Chinook helicopter during a rehearsal for the opening exercise of Jackal Stone 10 in Poland, Sept. 19, 2010. Jackal Stone 10, hosted by Poland and Lithuania, is an annual international special operations forces exercise held in Europe and coordinated with U.S. Special Operations Command Europe. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jason Cauley.
I don't care who you are - it still looks like a frog barfing when a Chinook disgorges troops like that.
Slightly larger version available by clicking here, for you defying-the-laws-of-nature groupies.
An up-armed Mi-17 that's *not* looking to blow you away.
Ummm -- except with the rotorwash...
...thanking their lucky stars to have survived the noise and the vibration.
We would deploy, 24 hours later start up the Forward Air Control Post in Country X
12 minutes later a Hind-D (at which point a slide of a close up of the front of the Hind is shown )
and kill half of us
Our sister unit would take over and last 30 minutes
I also remember the briefers were from the A-10 squadron, I wanted to go with them, screw FAC :)
Jerry
They're BAAAAACK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m293hZ23fw
But that's ok. Why is it ok? Because all the devotees of that disgusting filthology have told us it is just not nice to pick on commie-scum. All the useful idiots to the same have followed along as per their usual idiocy and all the rest of us just got down on our knees and gave up.
It's quite possible -probable, even- that he always has been a Christian. Dunno if you ever dropped by Baldilocks' place, but she's provided some interesting compare & contrast with respect to Obama. They both had fathers from Kenya, both from the same tribe, etc, both had significant number of worshipping Muslims in their family, yet Baldi is a devout Christian. Why can't Barry be. Except that you loathe him, of course? :)
fdcol63 (Frank, isn't it?) your scenario is the precise opposite of the one in the photo, since the forces you mentioned aren't even as good as the Russians . {/snerk!}
Oh, where is Simon the Able Seacat, killer of Commie Rats, now that we really need him.
Hint: Simon is the only feline winner of the Dickin Medal.
Still, that analysis holds more water than the "Obama's a Muslim" claim.
Progressive is just the new name that Socialist, in the true mening of the word, are calling them selfs, because Liberal and Communist and Socialist has such a bad name thanks in part to the new meida showing the problems with and the failure of the above said ideals.
Those are ancient and eternal evils.
Believe whatever you wish. Hell, believe the Easter Bunny is real for all the diff it makes. It'd be as reality based as ignoring the commiescum history, the KNOWN commiescum history of Obama.
His mother was a commiescum. The grandpa that raised him was a commiescum. He sought out commiescum "mentors" throughout his school career. He got his political annointing at the feet of a commiescum wannabe terrorist.
C'mon Grimmy, tell it like ya mean it, don't sugar-coat it!