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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:19:45 PM EDT
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Pretty sure we got at least one forward post overrun in AFG.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:26:37 PM EDT
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I guess what is your definition of fixed and your definition of overrun... As in did they over take a FOB and hold it? or did they over run a perrimeter and push our guys back until we bombed them to Allah?
if its A then i think no.. If its B then yes i think at least once. I beleive i read a story of a watch post being overrun and us losing a couple of guys.. very sad.. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:28:48 PM EDT
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From what I can remember about 50 or so insurgents tried to attack Balad AB a few years ago and mowed down by machine guns/apaches/UAVS.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:37:21 PM EDT
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In AFG in 2005 another platoon in my company had a squad sized OP that was overrun 3 times. The first time 2 Americans were wounded with more than 50 Anti Coalition (Taliban/AQ) Killed or wounded. Second time they expended all ammo and had to break contact. Third time Haji's support by fire lit up their own assault.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:37:22 PM EDT
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There have been a few incidents ( a few years ago, now) of insurgents attacking various bases and getting inside the wire, but they've always been killed pretty quickly. Convoys are much easier targets.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:38:56 PM EDT
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I don't know, but every time they tried when I was there they got the shit shot out of them. When you have God (FO's) with you it just doesn't make it easy for them. There was a couple of times that I couldn't believe that they were that close to us though, and it did get "intense" a couple of times.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:48:03 PM EDT
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Pretty sure we got at least one forward post overrun in AFG. No kidding, has the OP read Lone Survivor? |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:51:43 PM EDT
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Pretty sure we got at least one forward post overrun in AFG. No kidding, has the OP read Lone Survivor? That wasn't an forward post...it was a recon mission. |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 1:51:52 PM EDT
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Mike Spann was a former Marine and a CIA paramilitary officer that was killed during a prison uprising in Afghanistan, 2001.
Kharn |
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Posted: 9/17/2009 2:29:30 PM EDT
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i can recall hearing or reading several. again it's one of those things where it depends on your definitions. I am sure that many OPs have been taken-including a four man sniper position back in 2003/2004 where the M40 was taken and later used against coalition troops before being recovered nearly two years later.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 2:37:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/17/2009 2:41:05 PM EDT
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I remember something about a mud fortress-turned-prison in Afg. that Taliban prisoners managed to take control of temporarily. IIRC it was a small group of Army SF and Northern Alliance troops who were in charge.
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Posted: 9/17/2009 3:18:49 PM EDT
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