Fox News reports that several special forces operators are surrounded by Taliban in a compound located in Marjah. One soldier has been killed and two more wounded in a crashed helicopter;
“On the map there is one green dot representing friendly forces stuck in the compound, and around it is a sea of red [representing hostile forces],” the official told Fox News.
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Earlier in the day, two USAF HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters were sent to rescue the U.S. special operations team. One of the helicopters took fire and waved off the mission and flew back to base.
The other helicopter’s blades struck the wall of the compound while attempting a rescue of the special operations team, according to defense officials who compared the scene to one similar to the helicopter crash inside Usama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on the mission to kill the Al Qaeda leader in May 2011.
The joint U.S. and Afghan special operations team was sent to Marjah to clear the area of Taliban fighters, who have retaken most of the town since November.
There were nine airstrikes on Tuesday in support of a clearing operation.
I’m sure that our guys are sending loads of Taliban to their virgins’ waiting arms.
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47 responses to “Special forces troops surrounded in Marjah”
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded.
That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.”
-Chesty Puller
Third paragraph:
“While a group of U.S. special operations forces is NO LONGER TRAPPED inside the battlefield, U.S. forces remained at the site and the surrounding area Wednesday.” [emphasis mine]
I think they’ve gotten things back under control … if you can ever really call anything in that region under control.
Incidents like this make me wish we still had napalm in the inventory. If I recall correctly, napalm worked quite well to deny temporarily a substantial area on the ground to enemy forces. Might come in handy here.
Uh..Roger That! Seen it used up close and personal and it works wonders for what it was made for.
Where is the like button???
And it sticks to kids (or so I hear.)
I heard that too, over and over while double timing around Ft. McClellan.
It sticks to anybody or anything and is not particular what it burns up. Joe
Drop hot grits on them. Similar effect but we can call it a food drop.
3E9, now THAT’S funny right there…..
Golly gee… Ain’t that the stuff they used in Nam that burned the skin off the little girl running naked and crying…made the front page in every newspaper and magazine.
Being non military trained I still think it’s a great thing to use.
Why isn’t the military calling back veterans who know about WAR and use them as advisors. Not into combat, but use their combat abilities to teach the new soldiers and the ones giving them orders. I don’t think the uppers know what the hell to do. I wasn’t stepping on any ones feet…
Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. – “They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.”
They have us right where we want them.
Now that can’t get away.
“We’re paratroopers, we’re meant to be surrounded” MAJ Richard Winters
SFC Jerry Shriver – “I’ve got ’em right where I want ’em–surrounded from the inside.”
If there were women in there shooting back, the Taliban might be less happy about being shot at and would leave.
Remember what I said about the peshmerga using trained women shooters against ISIS/Daesh? Beeline straight to hell if they get killed by women, applies to the Taliban, too.
It’s just the thought that it might scare the begeezus out of these jerks that makes me smile.
Anyway, let’s hope the good guys are getting the upper hand and can bring this to a favorable conclusion ASAP.
PH2, which raises the question, do they only go halfway to hell if they get tapped by a trannie?
Define “getting tapped.” They might enjoy an alternate interpretation.
Now, THAT is a question, Poetrooper. I’d say double time express delivery. Aren’t trannies even worse than wimminz, in their culture?
Here we go. The Afar call this place Erta Ale, the ‘smoking mountain’. The second pit is the ‘gateway to Hell’. This is where they should go.
https://youtu.be/YTi8_KkqpKw
Don’t think so, given their apparent liking of “dancing boys”.
That would put them co-located to Fiddlers Green. I suppose that could provide some drunken entertainment to all the dead troopers camped at the good ol’ time canteen.
Much as I’d love that to be the case, there’s no credible information that they actually think that – and, from my admittedly limited knowledge, nothing in the Quran to support the notion either.
Here’s one article talking about this:
http://www.vox.com/cards/isis-myths-iraq/isis-female-soldiers
Really? That comes directly from a report about the peshmerga employing and training women-only units to fight ISIS/Daesh.
I am not in the habit of posting comments with a foofy basis, you see. I’ve posted this reference before, from an article by a reporter who was embedded with those pesmerga PKK women.
My impression is that the Peshmerga’s women-only units are quite happy to propagate the myth because it does well for morale and their publicity. And a reporter is quite happy to buy into it, much like reporters often buy into ‘stories’ that lack factual evidence here.
But to the best of my knowledge, it isn’t actually true and doesn’t have a basis in the Quran. I’d love to be wrong since I love the idea behind this myth too,… but I don’t think it’s accurate.
I think when you track back through all the stories about it, you come up with one origin story – the one by the reporter embedded. Various other news agencies (and Congressman Ed Royce, R-CA) all made their comments after that.
Again, it’s possible I’m wrong, and I’d love to be wrong,.. but it sounds a bit too contrived, sadly.
Just my take.
Try this idea, muzzie male being offed by a mere female. ISSIS all male units not being able to defeat the PKK female units. Any guesses ? Joe
Will Barry come on TV and share a tear?
Hell no he won’t he is to busy with his fake or acting on TV. This is the reason why Billary should never get in the White House
It sticks to anybody or anything and is not particular what it burns up. Joe
Skippy, don’t forget his GOLF game. Joe
I hate Barry Manilow.
Oh Mandy well,
You came and you gave without taking,
But I sent you away.
Oh, Mandy well,
Kissed me and stopped me from shaking,
And I need you today. Oh, Mandy!
Manilow provided at least two “filks” for the 2012 Stolen Valor tournament:
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=31756
…so give the guy some credit.
“Will Barry come on TV and share a tear?”
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/3e/8a/3d3e8a6e707e29ada1cf5533c0c6b47c.jpg
My prayers and my family’s are with them what a fucking mess. Can 2016 hurry up and end ????
“They have us surrounded…..cue the AC 130’s”
Maybe we can get an update with the evening news. I didn’t see anything on the mid-day news about what’s going on over there.
Here’s an update from Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-taliban-idUSKBN0UK22L20160106
Our SF operators aren’t supposed to be used as regular infantry. It’s like trying to plow a field with a Ferrari. But of course, the doofi who put them over there either don’t know that, or don’t care.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and venture that they don’t care, PN..
Si, oui, hai, ja, da, yes, ha’oh, kyllä, und so weiter.
They don’t care how they use the guys and they believe that they are already smart and don’t have to educate themselves. A fool who does not know that he is a fool – that is the greater sin.
http://sofrep.com/45772/special-forces-soldiers-left-flapping-in-the-breeze-in-marjah-afghanistan/
Not surprised, but a pretty good read.
Oh, where the hell are the other helicopters and back up. I should of joined the Military, so I’m not military STUPID…
As an update, the Army has released the name of the SSG who was killed in action:
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2016/01/06/dod-identifies-special-forces-soldier-killed-afghanistan/78385474/
My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
Rest in Peace SSG McClintock
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Who is this official with his dots analogy. It may be nitpicking, but green represents friendly indigenous forces, not US forces. The color this person is looking for is Blue. You know al la “green on blue” attacks.