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| Iraq-Jordan |
| They’re running out of Ammo????? |
| 2004-04-08 |
| WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON OVER THERE???????? Via Silent Running We faced a force of four to five hundred rebels, with mortars, RPGs and various handheld weapons. There were four US soldiers---myself and the other people in my team----about twenty coalition soldiers, and thirty or so scared British and Aussie expats, including the British governor. The coalition soldiers had a couple tank/hybrid vehicles, but they didn’t have much ammo for them. By midnight, everyone was running out. We kept impressing this on Higher, and they just couldn’t get that through their heads. What the fuck good are they? We are running out of ammo. We will be over-run if light hits this place in the morning and finds us still here. |
| Posted by:Anonymous2U |
| #7 We faced a force of four to five hundred rebels, with mortars, RPGs and various handheld weapons. Troops in combat often overstate the number of enemy encountered. I would be surprised if the number of enemy personnel were over 100. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-04-08 9:38:17 PM |
| #6 One of the hard and fast rules of military life: if you are short of everything but the enemy, you are in combat. What a story... |
| Posted by: MW 2004-04-08 9:34:28 PM |
| #5 If there were Ukrainians, then it could have been BMP-1 (73mm cannon) or BMP-2 (30mm autocannon). |
| Posted by: ed 2004-04-08 8:39:05 PM |
| #4 The Ukrainians have some BMP-types probably. This was in Kut. I expect the small patrol in the compound didn't in fact have much ammo. They were cut off from resupply. |
| Posted by: buwaya 2004-04-08 8:30:04 PM |
| #3 "Tank/hybrid vehicles"? |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-04-08 8:11:15 PM |
| #2 BS |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-08 7:39:55 PM |
| #1 Delete mine too, THANX!!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-04-08 6:35:58 PM |