Comments by "TheIceman567" (@TheIceman567) on "Exclusive: Welsh Cavalry head to head with elite US Blackhorse regiment" video.
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@DirtyMikeandTheBoys69 yeah when was this? In fact it was the USA that had to bail the British out in Helmand.
Your own Guardian “In Musa Qala, the first wave of British soldiers almost ran out of ammunition after three months of harrowing combat. With no easy way to resupply them – it was too risky to drive convoys or fly dual-rotor Chinooks, the only helicopters the British had – desperate commanders accepted a dubious offer from a tribal leader in the district: if British troops would leave, the leader said, so would the insurgents, whereupon residents would take charge of security. The British departed in a convoy of local freight trucks.
The truce was short-lived, and by the following February, hundreds of Taliban fighters had recaptured the area, prompting the British, aided by the US Army's 82nd airborne division, to conduct a massive operation in late 2007 to wrest back control of the district centre. They succeeded in pushing the Taliban out of town. Then the British stopped. They established front lines about four miles north and south of the town centre; everything beyond was insurgent country.”
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