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2008-06-07 Afghanistan

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-07 16:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Major Loden

A *perfect* name for a Para.

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Thusoling9307 2008-06-07 16:29|| 2008-06-07 16:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The Men in Skirts triumph again.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-07 16:50|| 2008-06-07 16:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting that the Brits are now being effective in Afghanistan. And they are doing it all alone, according to Fleet Street. Well the French Mirage did help. But otherwise and all-Albion performance.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-07 17:17|| 2008-06-07 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 No one does a breathless British battle report like the Telegraph.

patrolling through pretty villages surrounded by apricot orchards and climbing mountains, redolent of wild rosemary

Yar!

Posted by George Smiley 2008-06-07 18:02|| 2008-06-07 18:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Finally, appropriate ROE:

You don't have to ask them twice to start returning fire.

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-06-07 18:13|| 2008-06-07 18:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The Taliban took us from the rear and we gave them a good spanking

Love it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-07 19:54|| 2008-06-07 19:54|| Front Page Top

#7 TOMMY

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!

Posted by doc 2008-06-07 20:31|| 2008-06-07 20:31|| Front Page Top

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