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Subject: What your Favourite Unit And Why?
klrmcommando    10/13/2007 7:52:56 AM
Name your favourite unit(sf or non sf) and give reasons why.if enough people reply this could be a good debate.
 
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dirtykraut       10/16/2007 8:53:26 PM
I love a good debate, but they usually lead nowhere on strategypage. Quite frankly there are too many space wasters and oxygen thieves for good, unbiased debate here. At least on the "Commandos and Special Operations" forum. It's a shame, because there are also a lot of bright people with a lot of experience who post here. It's a shame many of these people's parents were pro-life, but what are you gonna do?
 
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bob the brit       10/16/2007 8:55:12 PM

As the boat guys say, why the hell would you want to sit in a foxhole and fire your weapon, when you can fire your weapon from a speeding boat? I know it's immature, but that's just freakin cool. Expensive sunglasses or not!



...but who really wants to have to wear a pfd all day long?
 
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GOP       10/16/2007 9:20:57 PM




My choice is DEVGRU and Delta. I like the mission taskings, the level of profeciency you have to be at to get there, and the expensive sunglasses.




...again with the glasses
what would you do if you were a d-boy and it was raining on an oppo?

Wipe em off.
 
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longrifle       10/16/2007 11:24:27 PM
I'm going to take this question seriously but for me it's an historical answer.

It's riflemen and rifle units from the days when they were the elite among predominately musket armed armies (Yes, I like to read the Sharpe novels, but it goes beyond that).

The rifle is of German origin (the jager) but it really came into it's own on the American frontier during the colonial era.  Oddly enough, instead of Germans it was mostly the Ulster-Irish, more commonly known as the "Scotch-Arsh," who attained the greatest proficiency with the rifle during this era.  This was several decades before the 5th Battalion, 60th Rifles ever picked up a Baker rifle and put on a green jacket to serve their King and Country.

Later, the U.S. Army formed a regiment of riflemen - with green coats, no less - in 1808.  The regiment was active until 1821, then, for whatever odd reason, it was decided that they were no longer needed.

h**p://mymilitaryhistorypages.bravehost.com/RifleRegiments.htm

The rifleman were scouts, skirmishers, and sharpshooters.  They were the foundation that sniping was later built on.

In the days of massed volley musket fire the rifleman was an elite.

 
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Ehran       10/17/2007 12:32:01 PM
princess patricia's canadian light infantry.  kapyong and to show they are still in practise the medak pocket.
 
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bob the brit       10/17/2007 3:03:42 PM

princess patricia's canadian light infantry.  kapyong and to show they are still in practise the medak pocket.



now there's a unit that would have been a bit more proficient in somalia (PPCLI)... (i'm still up in arms as to why CAR?)
 
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dirtykraut       10/17/2007 3:20:48 PM




As the boat guys say, why the hell would you want to sit in a foxhole and fire your weapon, when you can fire your weapon from a speeding boat? I know it's immature, but that's just freakin cool. Expensive sunglasses or not!





...but who really wants to have to wear a pfd all day long?

Good point...
 
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Ehran       10/18/2007 11:33:04 AM
the airbourne reg't was a classic case of the wrong guys for the job.  i guess it came down to peacekeeper exhaustion among the rest of the btn's.  i still think that while heads should have rolled over somalia that dissolving the reg't was over reaction by the pols.
 
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bob the brit       10/18/2007 11:44:58 AM

the airbourne reg't was a classic case of the wrong guys for the job.  i guess it came down to peacekeeper exhaustion among the rest of the btn's.  i still think that while heads should have rolled over somalia that dissolving the reg't was over reaction by the pols.



oh definitely, they were a very capable unit, when tasked with a job in their sphere of influenece, but like you said that was definitely the wrong tie for the wrong occasion kind of deal. just another one of those times when the actions of a few reck it for the rest.
 
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Yimmy       10/18/2007 11:51:19 AM
Thanks for posting the mention of the Canadians in Croatia in 93, I googled it and found it a good read.  I have heard of this Somalia occurance, but I don't know what happened with the Canadian para's... could someone elaborate or post a reliable link?
 
I understand some Canadians are still para's though, a company attached to another unit perhaps?  When I was in Azerbaijan there were Canadian paras there.
 
 
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