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Hi all
Of all the foreign forces you overseas types have served with, who do you rate as useful types and who do you regard as oxygen thieves and why?
regards
GttC
Hi all
Of all the foreign forces you overseas types have served with, who do you rate as useful types and who do you regard as oxygen thieves and why?
regards
GttC
I have worked with brits, kiwis, aussie, yanks, fins, sweedes, dutch etc. Best i have worked with is the kiwis in timor. Absoloutely top class guys. Brits are very good to work with too. Didn't like the yanks though!!
Hi all
Of all the foreign forces you overseas types have served with, who do you rate as useful types and who do you regard as oxygen thieves and why?
regards
GttC
The Poles are the most useless soldiers known to humanity.
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Originally posted by hedgehog
My favourite moment was when the
Originally posted by hedgehog
red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head
The Poles are the most useless soldiers known to humanity.
Have to disagree... Ghanbatt were the neighbouring Battalion to us . During the trip of the 59Bn the CP at Tibnin Bridge came under HMG fire at night. The origin of fire was within 300m of the Ghan position at Sultiniah.... I was on duty in The Bn Comcen when the Ghan's came on the Motorala to complain that some of the Irish of return fire was impacting close to their positon... as usual at night the Ghan CP's were empty. The Irish were being fired at by a DSHK that was mounted on a 4wd that drove through the Ghan CP..
I voted for the Poles because they built 620A at the rate of one block per day and also because one of their 20 stone nurses objected to getting a radiographer off the beach in Naquora to X-Ray my ankle because it was Good Friday.
sigpic Say NO to violence against Women
Originally posted by hedgehog
My favourite moment was when the
Originally posted by hedgehog
red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head
"Let us be clear about three facts. First, all battles and all wars are won in the end by the infantryman. Secondly, the infantryman always bears the brunt. His casualties are heavier, he suffers greater extremes of discomfort and fatigue than the other arms. Thirdly, the art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than that of any other arm." ------- Field Marshall Wavell, April 1945.
I voted for the Poles because they built 620A at the rate of one block per day and also because one of their 20 stone nurses objected to getting a radiographer off the beach in Naquora to X-Ray my ankle because it was Good Friday.
Did security for the Bn Comd on the 82 Bn and I swear the Poles put down a block leveled it checked it had a can of beer
and repeated for each block
Brits- very very good
Aussies and New Zelandsers- Very very good
French Good but arrogant bastards
Germans- Arrogant bastards and shite
Fijians- go through anything you tell them to-
Nordic- some fine women- some scary women- some fine soldiers some shite soldiers
Nigerians- Ghanians Pakistanians- Bangladeshi- Pure and utterly badly lead but have the ability to be good
Russians- brutal and thieving bastards
Yanks- I have served with them in 3 different MA and whilst they have the best combat support
the majority of their troops were scaringly undertrained and so full of themselves
but saying that- I served with them pre Afghanistan and Pre Present day Iraq and with the
experience they have gained there they MAY be better than I give them credit for.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Hi all
With what little experience I have of military contact with foreigners, here goes;
Americans......efficient, friendly and enthusiastic but a bit arrogant(we're better than everybody,ever!)
Brits....very efficient, friendly, always up for a bit of drinking,etc.Loved coming to South in their military capacity.Only "chippy" Brit I ever encountered was a Loyal Son of Ulster, down to Baldonnel in a Wessex.He hated us and we didn't like him much either.God knows who decided to send him South.
French...arrogant/surly/bit sniffy but open to giving tours of their aircraft when asked.Would only speak English when spoken to.
Nordics....always very friendly, efficient and open for visits. Well up for drinking,etc. Gorgeous female flight crew always a bonus.Only exception was a sour bollox from Finland who forbade his mech from talking to us.The international language of smokes and coffee took care of that.
Italians...very friendly and open.Loved coming to the Don for a big ....-up.None of them ever seemed in the slightest hurry.
Apart from that, I worked with lots of Yanks in an industrial capacity and they can do the business, especially when it comes to large projects.Very,very good technically and always well-equipped.
I knew a guy who worked with the Ukrainians on UN missions and hated them with a passion, regarding them as a battalion of unrepentant thieves, who would steal anything, drink anything and were virtually entirely untrustworthy to do any job.
regards
GttC
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