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2009-07-28 Afghanistan

Battle-tested Colombian Commandoes Headed to Afghanistan

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Posted by tu3031 2009-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The Colombian Lancero school - analogous to US Army Ranger School - had a good reputation when I was still in service. Welcome to the party, men!

Posted by Lone Ranger 2009-07-28 00:46|| 2009-07-28 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Viva Colombia! Btw, Colombian troops also fought in the Korean War.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-07-28 02:47|| 2009-07-28 02:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Personally, I would like to see Chile's Andean troops get a crack at the Talibuggers. Very tough hombres with a wealth of experience and knowledge in really high mountain operations. Politically it probably can't happen because media-left land cannot grasp that Pinochet and his gang have been gone for over 20 years now.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-07-28 02:51|| 2009-07-28 02:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Politically it probably can't happen because media-left land cannot grasp that Pinochet and his gang have been gone for over 20 years now.

They haven't gotten over nearly three generations beyond segregation in the US either, or the Vietnam war [ignoring their own bloody hands dipped in the results of Cambodia or the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese boat people who didn't make it], or the fall of the Berlin Wall and their alternative society, or .....

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-28 08:35|| 2009-07-28 08:35|| Front Page Top

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