Afghan vid- words NSFW

Need to a member to see that one.
 
aah sorry, dont know how to pull it off the site either, its hosted on FB, not you tube
 
SK617 said:
aah sorry, dont know how to pull it off the site either, its hosted on FB, not you tube
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Someone on Pprune Mil posted a link a while back for software to download clips from such sites, but I could not get it to work.
 
Direct link to the video - I can view it when not signed into facebook so you all should be able to.

I tried to save it but Quicktime said it had in incorrect time value and wouldn't save it - someone else may be able to save it and embed it into this thread

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?? People just dont understand. Its not the lack of equipment its lack of manpower, A-stan is HHUUUGGGEEE, and nato sent there about 60.000 soldiers, to compare soviets had at least 5 times more and they lost.
There is no chance of winning guerilla war with heavy weapons (definitely not with old equipment used by BA) what Nato needs is more ground troops........ much more.
On the other hand maybe its just better to leave A-stan as it is, And bring soldiers back home?
 
Not even that is as simple as it sounds - NATO may have 60,000 troops in-theatre, but how many of them are combat troops? Kabul is swarming with Italians, Germans and French who do nothing but sit drinking espresso and eating Pizza at KIA (Kabul International Airport) a.k.a. Kia-Napa...
The ones 'in' the fight are us, the Spams, the Dutch and the Danes - we even have a company of Estonians out here fighting with Task Force Helmand - the Estonians! Joined NATO and immediately decided to fulfil their obligation by deploying combat troops...unlike older standing 'partners' who pay lip-service to their committment but won't allow their forces anywhere near the actual fighting - not even their aircraft assets to ease the burden of transporting troops around the Province...
TF Leatherneck, the USMC contingent will increase from one Regimental Combat Team to three in total - about 16,000 troops in all including support personnel. With that huge influx comes the required aviation assets to move everything around...we're already reaping the benefit of President Obama's committment to fighting here: we have three times the helicopters in Helmand that we had a year ago courtesy of the USMC and US Air Force - the USAF Pedro SAR Teams in particular are absolute Superstars and combined with the MERT crews from the UK forces offer unprecedented Medevac capability.
The CH-53 Sea Stallions of the Marines are older but have as much lift capability as our Chinooks and Merlins (arriving next month).
If other NATO countries currently enjoying the Winter Sports in Kabul would send their aviation assets down here, we'd never have to walk or drive anywhere...

You can't get blown up by an IED by flying over it at 300ft...

I actually think we stand a good chance of doing some good out here, but only if the political will to continue remains firm and our committment to staying the course isn't eroded by future political cowardice.
 
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Direct link to the video - I can view it when not signed into facebook so you all should be able to.

I tried to save it but Quicktime said it had in incorrect time value and wouldn't save it - someone else may be able to save it and embed it into this thread

Direct Link
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I get a message saying Windows Media Player does not recognise the format.
 
Arkady said:
The ones 'in' the fight are us, the Spams, the Dutch and the Danes - we even have a company of Estonians out here fighting with Task Force Helmand - the Estonians! .
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Not true only last week 4 from my country were killed in Ghazni povence, maybe its not as bad as in Helmand, but when i was there we were scattered from Herat to Jalalabad. At the moment 2500 troops with helis and Avs and other heavy crap, airbourne, engineers, blast teams, medics. They do everything, only my ex regiment did in last 6 months 197 missions, but you dont read that in English media, because media are only intrested in whats English. And since u pushed Talibans away from Kandahar some forces moved to surrounding provinces like Ghazni :)
Btw can you really expect from Italians and French anything??
Since Italian tanks have 5 gears: 1 is forward and 4 is reverse!!!
 
I am presuming foto kitsch is German? I know a German EOD officer, he's just finished his 2nd trip to the 'stan'
 
foto kitsch said:
Not true only last week 4 from my country were killed in Ghazni povence, maybe its not as bad as in Helmand, but when i was there we were scattered from Herat to Jalalabad. At the moment 2500 troops with helis and Avs and other heavy crap, airbourne, engineers, blast teams, medics. They do everything, only my ex regiment did in last 6 months 197 missions, but you dont read that in English media, because media are only intrested in whats English. And since u pushed Talibans away from Kandahar some forces moved to surrounding provinces like Ghazni :)
Btw can you really expect from Italians and French anything??
Since Italian tanks have 5 gears: 1 is forward and 4 is reverse!!!
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ahh...good to know you guys have finally deployed further than the Beer-Garden at ISAF HQ! :D

You know, if they let 'us' get on with things and left the media and politicians out of it, we'd have this thing done and dusted in a year...assuming the Bundeswehr remembers how to go 'Old School'...:cool: (Rommel-Goggles)...
I spoke to the Commander of Panzerlehrbrigade-9 when I was at Bergen-Hohne and he was most enthusiastic about forthcoming operations in Afghanistan (they'd recently been granted permission to wear the old cuff-titles on their dress uniforms and hang portraits of previous commanders in the Officer's Mess - without having to re-touch the 'old' 3rd Reich symbols and insignia) - as long as the politicians allowed them to conduct operations without interference...
 
SK617 said:
I am presuming foto kitsch is German? I know a German EOD officer, he's just finished his 2nd trip to the 'stan'
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God help me if i was German :nuts: i served with them but iam from Poland actually. German contingent is pretty much the same as ours.:clap:
 
Not offended at all :) in fact the cutest nephew i could wish for is half German :clap: it was just taste of my strange sens of humour.
Nearly Russian :) yeah central Europe is one tough place to be;)


Arkady said:
I spoke to the Commander of Panzerlehrbrigade-9 when I was at Bergen-Hohne and he was most enthusiastic about forthcoming operations in Afghanistan (they'd recently been granted permission to wear the old cuff-titles on their dress uniforms and hang portraits of previous commanders in the Officer's Mess - without having to re-touch the 'old' 3rd Reich symbols and insignia) - as long as the politicians allowed them to conduct operations without interference...
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You mean crosses and such, they were used long before Adolf:thinking: 14 years of Reich wont change it, i think. Hard history but proud history.
Glad that there are still few countries not opssesed with Political Corectness, dont you think?
 
foto kitsch said:
You mean crosses and such, they were used long before Adolf:thinking: 14 years of Reich wont change it, i think. Hard history but proud history.
Glad that there are still few countries not opssesed with Political Corectness, dont you think?
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No I meant the Swastikas - they formed the centre of Iron Cross and Knight's Cross awards from 1939-45 as well as it being on the belt-buckles of Junior ranks - it's a proscribed symbol in Germany - displaying it is a criminal offence there - the Bundeswehr had to petition very carefully for those old portraits and battle-standards to kept original...
 
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