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Approx 100 members of the DF were sent to Somalia in late '93 in a new role ie They were sent as peace enforcers and could, for the first time, use force to impose the cease-fire.
With thanks to our esteemed colleagues on military.ie who would never admit to visiting here............
Good Old Jim Sreenan promised an update to military.ie in early 2007...... Told us there wouldn't be any need to put up anything on other websites as Military.ie could handle it......
somalia tours were transport units with ARW as protection elements.
they weren't there as "peace enforcers" strictly speaking, although the UNOSOM mission as a whole was a peace enforcement one.
An army is power. Its entire purpose is to coerce others. This power can not be used carelessly or recklessly. This power can do great harm. We have seen more suffering than any man should ever see, and if there is going to be an end to it, it must be an end that justifies the cost.Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
I believe there are some pics knocking around of a hummer, with a tricolour on it, being operated by the Irish transport company during this period, was it on loan or what?
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.
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.
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