My dad was airborne in 62. He loved it! Their will always be a reason to throw men from planes and put them on the battle field in a quick fashion.
Nothing else beats it. Shawn Regan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:10 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Airborne There are many people in the traditional army structure that dislike us. Airborne and Special Operations units are expensive, we get better equipment, more training funds, and we get distinctive uniforms (headgear, red beret in my case). You have some people that really think the day of the Airborne Assault has passed. Now they see why it hasn't. We trained primarily for that very mission, air field seizure. That way we could provide an air head in much the same that the marines would provide a beach head, only at less cost, and it works in land locked countries. I think the combined arms planning that has gone into this operation is incredible. They are really leveraging every part of our military, using them in the manner in which they have trained. From the casualty reports it's totally working. I know many of the talking heads on TV are saying that we are meeting "fierce resistance". D-Day was fierce. 637,000 dead in 2 months. The bulge that was horrible. I know I sound crass, but you can see this amount of deaths in training. I mean the military is really doing an incredible job both in force protection, and in holding civilian deaths to a minimum. Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there. Suffice it to say that there are always going to be people that are jealous of those with more. Whether it be more ability, more money or more of anything. I am proud as hell to have bee a paratrooper. I am trying my damndest to be one again (have to convince the wife that this LRSD unit isn't bad) it's an amazing profession. It's not all bombs and guns, but so much more. Anyway I will shut up now. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Airborne why do people hate them, i would've thought in war those kind of troops are invaluable, like our green berets -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:27 To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Airborne hehe We call it a mustard stain. I was kind of jealous. Combat jumps happen so rarely. Wish them luck though. Where'd you see the video? Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:20 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Airborne They showed on tv one of the planes during the jump. 100 men jumped in 60 seconds. That is impressive. What really sucks... One of the paratroops got tied up in the equipment and could not do the jump. Paratroopers in combat get a gold star for their jump, which is a very, very big thing in the paratroops. I hope he gets another chance later. At 10:51 AM 3/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Airborne op in northern Iraq to seize an airfield for follow on medium and >heavy forces. > >Hope that the haters that are always trying to kill airborne and ranger >units finally see our value. > >All the way hehe > >Timothy Heald >Overseas Security Advisory Council >U.S. Department of State > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
