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What kind of things does the army do overseas? (Raids, patrolling, thing like the brits and Americans do in Iraq....etc) :tri:
And what are your experience while carring out these duties, have you ever come under fire?
strange question
why do you want to know
soldiers generally don’t talk about there experiences for what ever reason
how ever
do you want to know about Congo, cypress, Lebanon syni Ireland ?????
the army does and has carried out operations on all these front and most of the early ones are not classified or else, they are de classified
most of us who served during thee non war from 69 to the present may have done all sorts of thing
even giving out clean cloths in gormanston to the refugees from the north
Just that I see footage of the Brits and Americans doing some of these things in Iraq. I also see the Brits patroling and carrying out check points where I live and just wonder if the Irish army did this overseas
do you want to know about Congo, cypress, Lebanon syni Ireland ?????
yes, and maybe something from Liberia. Have you ever come under fire from maybe local rebals both on patrol and at base?
even giving out clean cloths in gormanston to the refugees from the north
What do you mean by that?
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Never (at least not with the DF), mugs asked what the army does overseas
patrols are a broad term
riot control was done in both Kosovo & Liberia
checkpoints & observation posts whether in camp/outside (not done as often now as in the days of UNIFIL)
also guarding/monitoring points, such as churches in kosovo
But does the army do obsevation patrols, Ya know hiding out and watching a town or farm house (thats if they train in those kind of things), and has the army ever been fired at while patroling or has a base ever been attacked with small arms or RPG's that kind of thing?
Also do you think the DF should train overseas. Like winter training in Sweden or Norway
or Jungle training in say in Australia? Personnal I think it would be a good think.
I also remember a debat about forming a parachute or marine Battalion, I think to hell with that, just get the navy to get a ship that could launch landing craft or rapid raiders and train every battalion to use them at least then the army would have seabourne capabilities with a few choppers.
and has the army ever been fired at while patroling or has a base ever been attacked with small arms or RPG's that kind of thing?
Frequently in the past, mainly in the Congo and Lebanon (Jadotville in the Congo, for example). Another example would be the Qana incident of 18 April 1996 in Lebanon, when Israeli artillery shelled a UN (Fijian) base, killing over 100 civilians.
To give you an idea of situation, up to 1989, 32 Irish soldier had been killed in action on overseas service. There have been more since but I can't find the information.
Congo (ONUC)
Between 1960 and 1961, 16 Irish troops were killed in action.
Lebanon (UNIFIL)
Between 1980 and 1987, 10 Irish troops were killed in action. One Irish soldier has been missing since 1981.
Middle East (UNTSO)
Between 1967 and 1989, 6 Irish troops were killed in action.
Source: A History of the Irish Army, JP Duggan, 1991
in '69 a number of refugees from NI were housed in gormanston camp, which was, up until then, in a "care and maintenence" state i believe. With their houses burnt down, they wouldnt have had many clothes with them, so the refugees were given out clothes. Apparently their children were a bit wild, and caused havoc in the mosney holiday centre next door...
in '69 a number of refugees from NI were housed in gormanston camp, which was, up until then, in a "care and maintenence" state i believe. With their houses burnt down, they wouldnt have had many clotehs with them, so the refugees were given out clothes. Apparently their children were a bit wild, and caused havoc in the mosney holiday centre next door...
I was there that year, and I can tell you some of the childrens mothers was a bit wild as well
it will be long, it will be hard, and there will be no withdrawl
Winston churchill
In kosovo we did patrols(foot/mobile/armoured) covert op's,urban foot patrolling,checkpoints.
We also did cordon and search of people,vechicles,houses,open areas,factories and security sweeps and vip escort.
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