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2008-05-27 Afghanistan

Telemark Battalion in new combat with Taliban

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Posted by mrp 2008-05-27 09:17|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Damn, this is great news, but, still, I'm somehow disappointed, I would have hoped they would have charged the taliban, running naked, foaming at the mouth and biting their shields...

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-27 12:47|| 2008-05-27 12:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Hold tight to your dreams, anonymous5089, they may yet come true. In the meantime, the reality will certainly do. Besides, I thought only riot police carry shields these days?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-05-27 13:10|| 2008-05-27 13:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The Telemark Battalion -- named after the "heroes of Telemark" from WW2? If not, it should be.

Posted by Mike 2008-05-27 13:11|| 2008-05-27 13:11|| Front Page Top

#4 TW, actually, that was a reference to Ye Olde berserkers, who did that a lot, they were supposedly impervious to harm while in transe (or drunk, or high with mushrooms); both celts and vikings (from where the name comes) had that type of behavior IIRC (and celts often painted their naked body blue, they were smurfs with swords, if you wish).

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-27 13:44|| 2008-05-27 13:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, I think it was the Picts that painted their bodies blue, A5089. It was done as part of their worship of the full moon. The Picts were more or less displaced by the Celts, although there are still some of us around.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-05-27 14:11|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-27 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Gratulerer! Lykke til!
(Congratulations! Good luck!)

Posted by Grenter Protector of the Geats4975 2008-05-27 16:05|| 2008-05-27 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Tusand tak!

Posted by Harald HardRede7711 2008-05-27 18:44|| 2008-05-27 18:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The displaced Picts were forced to move into a cave with a few hundred small furry animals. It's all good tho, they grooved.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-27 18:56|| 2008-05-27 18:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Thank God they let them fight, unlike the ~~nutless~~ Germans.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-27 19:08|| 2008-05-27 19:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Then we did what we've been training to do at Rena, seize the initiative and respond with massive, precise fire.

Amen. That is how you fucking win. Not by "negotiating". Not by "Understanding" your enemy.

You win by killing them.

End. Of. Fucking. Story.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-27 23:13|| 2008-05-27 23:13|| Front Page Top

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