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If I remember did we do something similar in East timor using Australian landing craft.??????
Can't remember if the Irish were with us, but we sailed from Darwin to Suai on the HMAS Tobruk, an Australian landing ship. We then used both landing crafts and helicopters to reach the shore.
"On the plains of hesitation, bleach the bones of countless millions, who on the very dawn of victory, laid down to rest, and in resting died.
There is lots of different possibilities, and there is no single plan which could cover them all. Any fantasies of a Dunkirk like extraction are realistically just that.
I don't think I've been on a deployment where there was not an evacuation plan; not having one is dangerous and irresponsible.
"On the plains of hesitation, bleach the bones of countless millions, who on the very dawn of victory, laid down to rest, and in resting died.
Pte Laura Harris receives her United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) medal
THE chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Conor O'Boyle, has presented peacekeeping service medals to 150 Irish and Finnish soldiers in south Lebanon.
He awarded the medals near the town of At Tiri yesterday at the completion of a two-day visit to the 108th Irish-Finn battalion, who deployed to Lebanon in May for a six-month tour of duty.
The Defence Forces are supplying 332 peacekeepers, who work alongside 175 Finnish soldiers as part of the joint battalion, led by Lieut Col Tony McKenna.
Before the awards ceremony, General O'Boyle laid a wreath in memory of the 47 Irish soldiers, who died on peacekeeping duties in Lebanon at a memorial in Tibnin, which used to house Camp Shamrock, the headquarters of successive Irish battalions for several decades.
THE chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Conor O'Boyle, has presented peacekeeping service medals to 150 Irish and Finnish soldiers in south Lebanon.
It never, to my knowledge transported troops, Just equipment. You could fit 2 Panhard APCs on deck aft, as well as ammunition and other vital stores. On some occasions though it was not possible to land the stores in Lebanon, so the ship would divert to Haifa instead.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
Goldie, you really have little to complain about if a journo is wearing a pair of jeans and it rises you. I'd say that he got called out of the blue to meet the cameraman and get down to the Basin. The guy he's talking to is wearing a fisherman's hat with a suit, so do feel free to set the fashion police onto him, too.
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