Dispatches: Behind Enemy Lines

[Churchill]

Doesn't matter how many IMO - it's too many anyway

WSS.

[ratewhore]

Wiki - 1,618 killed (US: 978, UK: 253, Other: 387)[15]
1 POW (US)[16]
9,535+ wounded (US: 4,869,[17] UK: 3,360,[18]
Contractors:75 killed, 2,428 wounded (to 2007/03)[19]

The 500+ was a round-about(ish) figure.

Does it really matter?

You a bit touchy? It sounded high, to say we were losing 500+ per year, and it is, based on those figures. You're looking at a loss of around 200 per year.

That aside, one is too many, as has already been said...

[Moscow Mule]

You a bit touchy? It sounded high, to say we were losing 500+ per year, and it is, based on those figures. You're looking at a loss of around 200 per year.

That aside, one is too many, as has already been said...

500+ is last year.

When we were bombing them from the skies, casualties were much lower.

There's a chart on the wiki.

[ratewhore]

Are you sure they just milk the goats?

You'll find what you're looking for on youtube somewhere. A video recorded through NVGs if I remember correctly...

[AtW]

Are you sure they just milk the goats?

Travel insurance was a tad expensive so I did not want to go check it out in person...

[Churchill]

Travel insurance was a tad expensive so I did not want to go check it out in person...

That and the fact that if the Mujis got hold of you they'd cut you dick off, stick it in your mouth and leave your dismembered body to be found by your colleagues?

[AtW]

That and the fact that if the Mujis got hold of you they'd cut you dick off, stick it in your mouth and leave your dismembered body to be found by your colleagues?

You won't shock me by these stories old chap - this has been known to me to happen long time before NATO got into Afghanistan, not just there mind you - Chechnya springs to mind.

To be fair cutting heads of hostages would be more usual thing to expect there.

Knowledge of this helps reduce surrender rate among troops...

[EternalOptimist]

Don't the gooley chits work anymore then?

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Mu...nal/gooly.html

In the well endowed regiments of the British army, such as I was in, the main danger is that they would cut your head off and stick it in the mouth of yer willy

[Churchill]

Don't the gooley chits work anymore then?

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Mu...nal/gooly.html

It was the treatment of Russians during their occupation of Afghanistan that I was referring to.

[AtW]

It was the treatment of Russians during their occupation of Afghanistan that I was referring to.

If they were able to capture enough of NATO troops then they'd be doing the same in my view, it wasn't anti-Russian thing, more of anti-infidel kind of thingy, apparently.