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2010-07-22 Afghanistan

Shock troops of US military pull out of 'Death Valley'

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Posted by tipper 2010-07-22 07:29|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Shock troops?

Posted by tipover 2010-07-22 10:13|| 2010-07-22 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Probably alot of 60+ yr. old 11Bravos and platoon leaders out there humping in the valley of death. Besides the valley of death for the 101 was the Au Shau where the fought for years.

Posted by bman 2010-07-22 11:16|| 2010-07-22 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Did we co-opt the old Soviet 3rd Shock Army? Or is the the Stosstruppen "shock troops" (whcih quickly becomes storm troopers) we are not being compared to? This author is full of shit, as seen by the Vietnam reference and the oblique "Storm Trooper" SS implied comparisons.

Who wrote this piece of puerile propaganda?

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-07-22 11:45|| 2010-07-22 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Reuters. Looks like he pulled an old "Invincible Viet Cong" article from 1966 out of the archives and changed a few words.

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-22 11:57|| 2010-07-22 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 The Arab News has a certain bias in the article. Much like our MSM, doom and gloom which puts it in te realm of propaganda.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-07-22 12:27|| 2010-07-22 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 My father was in Vietnam during the Tet offensive. He's 70 now. This is a bullsh*t article.

Roundup would go a long way towards eliminating that plentiful cover, by the way.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-22 13:03|| 2010-07-22 13:03|| Front Page Top

#7 I served with the last of the draftees. Anyone seeing combat in Vietnam would be around 55 years old or older. Now I don't doubt that there are some 55+ reservists here and there ... but I doubt many are humping loads of gear and ammo at over 6000 feet altitude. Let alone the number of people that "Many of our guys" implies.

I would say that Rob Taylor of Reuters simply made that up or that Lt. Black did. Someone certainly did.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-07-22 13:18|| 2010-07-22 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 just like we saw in Nam

/Walter Sobchak

Posted by Frank G 2010-07-22 18:38|| 2010-07-22 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Alright I'll mark it a zero, put the f@kn piece away.

...unless this valley is full of 6 star hotels and hoardes of venders, Hillary! dodging snipers.

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