I was in Afghanistan fixing Apache helicopters at the time and knew the pilots involved. They were ordered not to go in by HQ after they had put their plan forward; but they went anyway. The Army was attempting to have them disciplined, but the story got leaked to the media. The media coverage made them heroes, so the Army relented, and they ended up getting medals instead.
Yeah I had a mate that was there in the compound for that ops and said it was pretty cool story nothing you would even see on a movie. That was a nice place to visit.
"Never shall I leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy". "Leave no man behind". Alive or dead, you do not leave them. Good job Marines.
For any who think he was already dead so it did not matter, it was a useless risk, you are WRONG. Sadly he was gone but it matters. It matters to every single person who has ever served. Knowing your comrades in arms will risk all to come get you and you will do the same makes a spirit and faithfulness that knows no limits. In the end we do not fight for politics, for a country or a flag. We fight for the poor bastard next to us as they fight for us.
@@72marshflower15nah they get sent in because a bunch of sand farmers cant stop fucking up their own countries and making it the rest of the worlds problem
In 1968 I was a Marine Scout Dog handler in Vietnam. At the time I was attached to 1/5. On my first day with them a company had just returned back to their compound after a short operation in the field. After being back a couple of hours someone realized that two Marines were missing. I was summoned to go back with the company and tried to locate the missing Marines. We were helo-lifted back to the TAOR and began to search for the two Marines. I and my Scout Dog were on the chopper with the company CO of the missing Marines. I will never forget the expression on his face on that chopper ride. He realized his Marine career was over! We spent the entire day searching for those two Marines to no avail. The re was no trace of them. When the choppers flew in to lift us out of the LZ the NVA opened up on our unit. Took some casualties before being extracted. Apparently the squad the two marines were attached to had taken a break and the two Marines had fallen asleep. When the call came to go back to the LZ they were left behind. Their squad leader, platoon sgt., and platoon Lt. never noticed them missing. Later on I heard that the company CO was relieved on the spot and shipped back to the states. The mission haunted me for years. Can you imagine what the two Marines must have felt like when the realized they were left behind. The outright fear and terror they faced. What a screw up.
Ed Macy wrote a book about his experience flying Apache helicopters in Afghanistan. One of the topics is about his involvement in the rescue of Matthew Ford. A good read.
To all the members of the different Nations and Branches of Services thank you for your sacrifice and being apart of something much larger than yourself. Thank you to those family members who support those serving. The best part of being an American is that I do not see color or race. I only see the red white and blue with those star's and stripes. To those fighting from different countries you are a credit to your people. Your much braver than I am and the fact that your fighting onsite. I only hope you're able to digest what you have seen are able to get help in making sense of it all. I know from PTS it can be hard. Those people in Ukraine keep fighting for ever square mm.
One of the four on board the Apaches wings was a Royal Engineers officer. From Rorkes Drift and conflicts yet to come they are UBIQUE. RIP L/Cpl Ford RM
As an old US Marine and spent multiple tours in Iraq for many years. At the end of every mission we went on, at first availability of a secured or securable position outside enemy reach, Platoon Leaders, Plt Sergeants, Squad Leaders all performed multiple head counts to prevent what went on with the Brit Royal Marines in this vid. Also the US Marines during my time, had an unofficial standard operating procedure that required TWO OR MORE Marines each had specific specific shadows! If one Marine went to take a piss, another Marine or Shadow went with him! Most of the Marines were made up like a machine gunner and his A-Gunner. They work the same crew served weapons together. They know when their brother is no longer beside them. In the chaos of combat it is EASY to leave a wounded, incapacitated or dead Marine behind! The NCOs, Staff NCOs, the Officers deal with the platoon and company as a whole or collectively. They dont live 24/7 with Enlisted and the Boots fresh from SOI. It is up to the guys in your fireteams to ensure the head count is correct and your brothers are all with you.
They did that with Cobras in Vietnam. They'd open the forward ammo bay door and sit on it. If they didn't have time to open the bays, they'd just hang on to whatever. Captain Larry Taylor was given the MOH in 2023, 50 years late, for pulling out 4 LRRPs clinging to his rocket pods in Vietnam.
The Apache could have expanded most of the munitions and low on fuel to be light enough to carry them. These guys are badass. Probably sat on the stub wings with no ear protection and exposed to possible small arm fires.
dude the apaches can carry a 5 ton truck with full weapons payload and a full tank of fuel. 5 marines weighing a combined 500 lbs would make a dent in the fuel consumption of the Apache
Greater love has no one that he should lay down his life for his friends - Leave no man behind. RIP Cpl Ford - from a vet. Your name liveth forevermore.
A quick note: The British Royal Marine Commandos number their squadrons Four-Five Commando, not Forty-Five Commando. The numbering system is similar for all squadrons.
@@Ballentyne817 Nice work mate. I’m former 45 myself, from the bad old 70’s. Do you All-arms guys count yourselves as Bootnecks, or maybe half a bootneck perhaps? Stay safe brother. 🇬🇧TTK🍻
@@freelancebush lol ya we sway more bootneck because we use all ships terms like Head, yump, wet , galley etc but we are still stuck with the Army BS that never stops, But we know were not Royals :) 🇬🇧 stay wavey brother🤙
Wellll thank god they help them. In 2003 in Iraq I was with the 3-7 Marines in Karbala Iraq and I witnessed a Marine Cobra helicopter came down a hot zone and dropped their pods to strap a serious wounded Devil dog on its short wing. The other battle buddies cobra gave support fire as this took place. This was an amazing experience and that Marine did survived. I so proud of our service members! I am now retired and I will never forget what I saw.
@@Z33k211 You've never been to the desert have you? The pilot never caught the heat signature as he was already dead, besides the heat coming from the desert ground and surrounding area where the body was would have masked any body heat. The pilot actually saw the body of the marine
thats not my point, my point is the pilot is the one who found him, his battle buddies left him without even knowing, thats my point so o have no clue nor care why you wrote all that, and for your info ive been to kuwair, iraq, Afghanistan, syria and israel, those have deserts right?
@@Z33k211 they knew as they did a head count and came up short. it was as they were deciding how to go in and get teh body that the pilot suggested this off the wall idea. in fact after the fact. the next lot of pilots who were to rotate in were doing training drills added rescue ideas to their training. i have a copy of apache dawn, which opens with this rescue. the book follows a pilot and chief who did the 90 day rotation just after this happened and said that immediatly after this rescue, DOD instigated a quick program with his team on different ways an apache could be used as a rescue helo. its a great book as it showed what the british apaches did and how much they and the americans worked together. many a time having either american fighters or bombers on call if needed. or just how long some of these guys held station protecting fellow marines. think one battle was like 15 hours. the apaches were dumping ammo, rotating with their relief re arming and rotating with the nww empty chopper on station.
As a retired Marine, that’s all static electricity If you were to touch the hook at the bottom of a helicopter, it would be like touching that thick wire on top of a telephone pole with a wet hand. Look up how to do HST…. Semper USMC / Retired
Looks like Soviet's Mi-24 designed around the same time was more forward thinking. Its small compartment for servicemen has been used extensively during such combat missions.
that's because the MI-24 was designed by Russia to be a direct competitor to the Huey/Blackhawk and not the Apache. The MI-24 is multi purpose role helicopter just like the US's Huey and Blackhawks. The Apaches are used for 2 roles only, attack enemy positions and defense of ground troops
@@ikaustralia Russia has only 1 true attack helicopter and that's the Ka-52. Everything else are heavily armored multi role transports. The Mi-24 is literally built around a heavily modified transport frame
You can just imagine the conversation the marines had with the Americans, and the Americans reaction, f yes we want in on this send some A10, you can imagine the reaction of the USA marines when they heard what the uk marines did, how come the uk marines get all the fun stuff. Joking apart there’s some serious balls to do that.
To our cousins we thank you for dropping hell on the enemy so that four heroes could collect a brother left on the field of fire. To the four Marines you now have your very own legend that will be marvelled at by your fellow brothers, then, now and forever. 🫡
The Pilots were threatened with Court Marshal which was squashed in the end but the Marine was sadly dead. Read the Book! It is unbelievable the bravery of these men.
What the heck? You have a force of artillery armor, B1 bombers A-10s Apache helicopters and you still can’t take over a small fort of Stone Age militance. Messed up.
Gotta love those yanks 🇺🇸 not the first time they picked up the extra weight ....another time they offered to go in for us (the uk) if our guys couldn't get mission aproval!!!!!
In deference to the Royal Marines, please use their correct name: Four Five Commando, not fourty five Commando. Details matter, especially if you are a member of that unit.
All I can say is to people comparing their experiences, please stop. This is not a competition, it's a true story and needs it's own space. Nothing what you did should make you post something even remotely similar. If your experience was as legendary then make your own post on YT about it.
What really matters was, despite sophisticated weapons, US & British forces withdrew from Afghanistan though, & Taliban returned to power. I am not a Taliban fan either, but with mounting civilian deaths & collateral damages by US & Nato military operations, no way the occupation was sustainable. Yes, US & Nato won 99% of the battle, but lost the war anyway
Had nothing to do with “mounting collateral damage.” It’s all about money and politics. And what a waste to expend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to just walk away and hand the entire country back to the evil people that have oppressed that region for so long. It was the wrong decision. And once again the US creates more enemies and abandons allies with its politics and stupid military decisions.
That is because the craven coward and traitor Trump surrendered to the Taliban, freed their leader and 2000 of their most hardened fighters from prison, invited them over to Camp David and had Pompeo laud them as the the next government of Afganistan while withdrawing all US air support and almost all US forces from the country. He should be in Leavenworth awaiting fitment for a hemp necklace.
Lots of the details in this are incorrect. The chinhooks that took the lads out originally were sent out with MERT and the only air they had were the 2 apaches.
@@Spirit-Soldier2026 ya I watched the video and heard that. Still stupid, it doesn't have to take 12 hours for a raid. Poor planning, I'm that guy. You don't know me.
Sounds like a total ballsup. An attack against lightly armed compound, that went wrong and failed. Even with bombers, artillary and Apaches. Then risking more lives for a dead guy.
I have always been puzzled how the - supposedly superbly and highly trained - US, British and other coalition soldiers could not take care of the sandal-wearing, ragtag bands of locals...
@@marcelnowakowski945Western troops rarely lost any engagement that they were involved in against the sandal wearers. Only when very heavily outnumbered. Political defeat is a totally different thing. You should be able to understand that.
I was in Afghanistan fixing Apache helicopters at the time and knew the pilots involved. They were ordered not to go in by HQ after they had put their plan forward; but they went anyway. The Army was attempting to have them disciplined, but the story got leaked to the media. The media coverage made them heroes, so the Army relented, and they ended up getting medals instead.
It's disgusting just because it got leaked they got medals.
You're a villain for being a hero unless the media gets a hears of it.
Dam right Roger....how long ago was this that the media were the good guys ?just wondering
@@wayneabel5421 Off the top of my head, early 2007 - January to February. It was a juicy story for them to publish.
The media works in the opposite way too.
Yeah I had a mate that was there in the compound for that ops and said it was pretty cool story nothing you would even see on a movie. That was a nice place to visit.
Marines leave no man behind. A salute to our British brothers. Semper Fi.
untrue nam 67/68
Per Mare Per Terram by land by sea
@@darrenjones3681per mare=by sea per terram=by land
those who dare win !!!
British brothers?
Independence Day what?
The title, Marine, whether Royal or US, speaks of loyalty, brother/sisterhood, and faithfulness, so no Marine left behind. Well done.
"Never shall I leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy". "Leave no man behind". Alive or dead, you do not leave them. Good job Marines.
Except if you're Russian this doesn't apply.
It will be hard if nato fight Russia. The fighting will be viscious it will be hard to retrieve the wounded or retrieve bodies
UK British Royal Marines - brothers always with us American Marines
For any who think he was already dead so it did not matter, it was a useless risk, you are WRONG. Sadly he was gone but it matters. It matters to every single person who has ever served. Knowing your comrades in arms will risk all to come get you and you will do the same makes a spirit and faithfulness that knows no limits. In the end we do not fight for politics, for a country or a flag. We fight for the poor bastard next to us as they fight for us.
well said sir.
No, you fight for Israel..
@@72marshflower15nah they get sent in because a bunch of sand farmers cant stop fucking up their own countries and making it the rest of the worlds problem
and to his family. having his body returned to them for burial is important.
Matt was my kickboxing buddy, in grimsby . What a great lad and sadly missed. R I P mate 😢
Would have been awhile ago now. But i guess to you it feels like you guys were just being mates 2 weeks ago. Dosnt time just have no Mercy.
In 1968 I was a Marine Scout Dog handler in Vietnam. At the time I was attached to 1/5. On my first day with them a company had just returned back to their compound after a short operation in the field. After being back a couple of hours someone realized that two Marines were missing. I was summoned to go back with the company and tried to locate the missing Marines. We were helo-lifted back to the TAOR and began to search for the two Marines. I and my Scout Dog were on the chopper with the company CO of the missing Marines. I will never forget the expression on his face on that chopper ride. He realized his Marine career was over! We spent the entire day searching for those two Marines to no avail. The re was no trace of them. When the choppers flew in to lift us out of the LZ the NVA opened up on our unit. Took some casualties before being extracted.
Apparently the squad the two marines were attached to had taken a break and the two Marines had fallen asleep. When the call came to go back to the LZ they were left behind. Their squad leader, platoon sgt., and platoon Lt. never noticed them missing. Later on I heard that the company CO was relieved on the spot and shipped back to the states.
The mission haunted me for years. Can you imagine what the two Marines must have felt like when the realized they were left behind. The outright fear and terror they faced. What a screw up.
Apache: If grandpa Huey can do it, so will I.
Ed Macy wrote a book about his experience flying Apache helicopters in Afghanistan. One of the topics is about his involvement in the rescue of Matthew Ford. A good read.
Yep, awesome book!
His sequel, hell fire is also good.
Worked with M R for a while covering Aviation Counter Terrorism
Let’s just say sometimes you’re better off not knowing!!!!
@@stuarth6005 and the one Charlotte wrote also brill reads
To all the members of the different Nations and Branches of Services thank you for your sacrifice and being apart of something much larger than yourself. Thank you to those family members who support those serving. The best part of being an American is that I do not see color or race. I only see the red white and blue with those star's and stripes. To those fighting from different countries you are a credit to your people. Your much braver than I am and the fact that your fighting onsite. I only hope you're able to digest what you have seen are able to get help in making sense of it all. I know from PTS it can be hard. Those people in Ukraine keep fighting for ever square mm.
These man has balls of steel
Well he is a bootneck 🤷♂️
Titanium
One of the four on board the Apaches wings was a Royal Engineers officer. From Rorkes Drift and conflicts yet to come they are UBIQUE. RIP L/Cpl Ford RM
Absolutely. 👍
Soldier: That thing got RPGs?
Pilot: Nah, I got RPMs.
Soldier: What’s RPMs?
Pilot: Really Pissed off Marines.
The mission is described in the book "Apache" by Ed Macy - on of the pilots involved.
As an old US Marine and spent multiple tours in Iraq for many years. At the end of every mission we went on, at first availability of a secured or securable position outside enemy reach, Platoon Leaders, Plt Sergeants, Squad Leaders all performed multiple head counts to prevent what went on with the Brit Royal Marines in this vid. Also the US Marines during my time, had an unofficial standard operating procedure that required TWO OR MORE Marines each had specific specific shadows! If one
Marine went to take a piss, another Marine or Shadow went with him! Most of the Marines were made up like a machine gunner and his A-Gunner. They work the same crew served weapons together. They know when their brother is no longer beside them. In the chaos of combat it is EASY to leave a wounded, incapacitated or dead Marine behind! The NCOs, Staff NCOs, the Officers deal with the platoon and company as a whole or collectively. They dont live 24/7 with Enlisted and the Boots fresh from SOI. It is up to the guys in your fireteams to ensure the head count is correct and your brothers are all with you.
because of this mission there are now extra handholds on the new apaches since 2010. only to be used in an emergency :)
They did that with Cobras in Vietnam. They'd open the forward ammo bay door and sit on it. If they didn't have time to open the bays, they'd just hang on to whatever. Captain Larry Taylor was given the MOH in 2023, 50 years late, for pulling out 4 LRRPs clinging to his rocket pods in Vietnam.
Brave and the best. God Bless our solders 🇬🇧
Those marines that strapped themselves to the apache is 🤪 crazy !! Good shit boys, served as a US rifleman during this same time in the GWOT.
Sure you did
@HWG-wm8ld lmao stfu troll. Served as a 11bravo, rifleman, with the 4th infantry division and served with the 101st Airborne. 06-09.
@@Rubeless did you serve, or u just a keyboard warrior bitch
Never heard of a grunt refer to himself as a “US rifleman”. Vernacular is definitely unusual.
The Apache could have expanded most of the munitions and low on fuel to be light enough to carry them. These guys are badass. Probably sat on the stub wings with no ear protection and exposed to possible small arm fires.
dude the apaches can carry a 5 ton truck with full weapons payload and a full tank of fuel. 5 marines weighing a combined 500 lbs would make a dent in the fuel consumption of the Apache
2:00 That Apache pilot is the English Prince Harry. I doubt he took part in anything risky.
Greater love has no one that he should lay down his life for his friends - Leave no man behind. RIP Cpl Ford - from a vet. Your name liveth forevermore.
Read the book Apache by Ed Macy
A quick note: The British Royal Marine Commandos number their squadrons Four-Five Commando, not Forty-Five Commando. The numbering system is similar for all squadrons.
Commandos not Squadrons ….
Four-five, Four-two, and Forty.
@@freelancebush Then you have US All Arms boys, myself 29 CDO RA
@@Ballentyne817 Nice work mate. I’m former 45 myself, from the bad old 70’s. Do you All-arms guys count yourselves as Bootnecks, or maybe half a bootneck perhaps? Stay safe brother. 🇬🇧TTK🍻
@@freelancebush lol ya we sway more bootneck because we use all ships terms like Head, yump, wet , galley etc but we are still stuck with the Army BS that never stops, But we know were not Royals :) 🇬🇧 stay wavey brother🤙
Don’t forget the RE Officer that was also part of this op!
ive added the names up top.
As a US Marine. This is a remarkable story.
“Dead or alive, we will all come home together”
Thank you.
They use the compartment doors on a Huey Cobra to transport OPS guys, the Apache is no different with the side swells on it perfectly doable.
No one understands me when I say that as a Marine, I would go back through hell to get just one fallen brother... Semper Fi my brother!
It’s four five commando not forty five commando 🫡🇬🇧PMPT .
Wellll thank god they help them. In 2003 in Iraq I was with the 3-7 Marines in Karbala Iraq and I witnessed a Marine Cobra helicopter came down a hot zone and dropped their pods to strap a serious wounded Devil dog on its short wing. The other battle buddies cobra gave support fire as this took place. This was an amazing experience and that Marine did survived. I so proud of our service members! I am now retired and I will never forget what I saw.
Do you speak English as a first language?
@@Rubelessbro, i was thinking the same thing. This dude is probably not American. 🧢
Captain D. Rigg RE, WO1 (RSM) C. Hearn RM, and Marines C. Fraser-Perry and G. Robinson the four marines who strapped to the helos.
What makes an Apache more dangerous? Add some Marines to it Ooorah
They killed their own brother and left him behind without even knowing it until apache caught the heat signal
@@Z33k211 You've never been to the desert have you? The pilot never caught the heat signature as he was already dead, besides the heat coming from the desert ground and surrounding area where the body was would have masked any body heat. The pilot actually saw the body of the marine
thats not my point, my point is the pilot is the one who found him, his battle buddies left him without even knowing, thats my point so o have no clue nor care why you wrote all that, and for your info ive been to kuwair, iraq, Afghanistan, syria and israel, those have deserts right?
@@Z33k211 they knew as they did a head count and came up short. it was as they were deciding how to go in and get teh body that the pilot suggested this off the wall idea. in fact after the fact. the next lot of pilots who were to rotate in were doing training drills added rescue ideas to their training. i have a copy of apache dawn, which opens with this rescue. the book follows a pilot and chief who did the 90 day rotation just after this happened and said that immediatly after this rescue, DOD instigated a quick program with his team on different ways an apache could be used as a rescue helo. its a great book as it showed what the british apaches did and how much they and the americans worked together. many a time having either american fighters or bombers on call if needed. or just how long some of these guys held station protecting fellow marines. think one battle was like 15 hours. the apaches were dumping ammo, rotating with their relief re arming and rotating with the nww empty chopper on station.
The US Marines and Royal Marines are the worlds best.🇺🇲🇬🇧
Dont forget dutch marines they arw awesome
So we we ex South African defence force scared of nothing 1979 fought for our country and life
@@AmandaVanDenBergh-m2s keyword in the title there "Marines" as.in the best Marines not unit or force
Nothing special about Marines
@@flight2k5 what unit was you?
Oorah! ⚓️🌎🦅
Is that a magical helicopter? 0:06
Looks like some glow stick strap to the propeller
As a retired Marine, that’s all static electricity
If you were to touch the hook at the bottom of a helicopter, it would be like touching that thick wire on top of a telephone pole with a wet hand.
Look up how to do HST….
Semper
USMC / Retired
that's how we do it team work ..
I hurt when one of ours gets killed by friendly fire. Please don't forget Patrick Tillman. He sacrificed alot for us. So sad.
After the recovery, they should have turned the fort to dust.
That must have been absolutely deafening to strap right outside the engine intake... holy. big ballz
Looks like Soviet's Mi-24 designed around the same time was more forward thinking. Its small compartment for servicemen has been used extensively during such combat missions.
that's because the MI-24 was designed by Russia to be a direct competitor to the Huey/Blackhawk and not the Apache. The MI-24 is multi purpose role helicopter just like the US's Huey and Blackhawks. The Apaches are used for 2 roles only, attack enemy positions and defense of ground troops
@@thomaswakefield6889 I'd say Mi-8 is a closer alternative to Huey than Mi-24
@@ikaustralia Russia has only 1 true attack helicopter and that's the Ka-52. Everything else are heavily armored multi role transports. The Mi-24 is literally built around a heavily modified transport frame
Thats my boys. RIP Fordie
You can just imagine the conversation the marines had with the Americans, and the Americans reaction, f yes we want in on this send some A10, you can imagine the reaction of the USA marines when they heard what the uk marines did, how come the uk marines get all the fun stuff. Joking apart there’s some serious balls to do that.
The Royal Marines version of the "EGA" cover the opposite side of the globe. There for, together, US Marines and Royal Marines cover the globe.
To our cousins we thank you for dropping hell on the enemy so that four heroes could collect a brother left on the field of fire. To the four Marines you now have your very own legend that will be marvelled at by your fellow brothers, then, now and forever. 🫡
Rode into the LZ standing on the skid you say? Well let me tell you about the time….lol
holy moly
The Pilots were threatened with Court Marshal which was squashed in the end but the Marine was sadly dead. Read the Book! It is unbelievable the bravery of these men.
Cool story bro
Respect
Am I the only one noticing when someone does crazy shit it’s always got Marines involved.
That's crazy. I totally saw troops riding passenger on the apache. But they can't transport personnel huh? 😂
What the heck? You have a force of artillery armor, B1 bombers A-10s Apache helicopters and you still can’t take over a small fort of Stone Age militance. Messed up.
"Mor-Tal-UP!"
Gotta love those yanks 🇺🇸 not the first time they picked up the extra weight ....another time they offered to go in for us (the uk) if our guys couldn't get mission aproval!!!!!
Retired USAF and I have to wonder what the Chinese and Russians would do in this kind of situation?
Needs to say “Royal Marines” in the title, they’re very particular about that.
Silly title. Monarchies are a ridiculous anachronism in 2024.
The royal part is nothing but demonic. Don't celebrate them.
These guys deserved the Victoria Cross but were let down by very senior Royal Marine and Royal Navy officers…
In deference to the Royal Marines, please use their correct name: Four Five Commando, not fourty five Commando. Details matter, especially if you are a member of that unit.
He did the chopper take off, With size of the bollocks it was carrying?
Love this. Get some, Brits!
All I can say is to people comparing their experiences, please stop. This is not a competition, it's a true story and needs it's own space. Nothing what you did should make you post something even remotely similar. If your experience was as legendary then make your own post on YT about it.
We Americans still rely on the Brits to show us how it's done. Well done boys.
No person left behind alive or dead
The impossible is done easy but miraculous takes a bit longer......all in the mind 😜
It’s called riding the side. Scouts Out
No seats? No problem!
What really matters was, despite sophisticated weapons, US & British forces withdrew from Afghanistan though, & Taliban returned to power. I am not a Taliban fan either, but with mounting civilian deaths & collateral damages by US & Nato military operations, no way the occupation was sustainable. Yes, US & Nato won 99% of the battle, but lost the war anyway
The politicians and the pentagon pogs didn’t allow us to win.
Had nothing to do with “mounting collateral damage.” It’s all about money and politics. And what a waste to expend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to just walk away and hand the entire country back to the evil people that have oppressed that region for so long. It was the wrong decision. And once again the US creates more enemies and abandons allies with its politics and stupid military decisions.
That is because the craven coward and traitor Trump surrendered to the Taliban, freed their leader and 2000 of their most hardened fighters from prison, invited them over to Camp David and had Pompeo laud them as the the next government of Afganistan while withdrawing all US air support and almost all US forces from the country. He should be in Leavenworth awaiting fitment for a hemp necklace.
Even had video wow
Glide is option
We "re=enacted" this in Kosovo KFOR-8. We let guys fly on the outside of an Apache
Grab grass is not a Option I like to be forced into
Well done Bootnecks woofing show 🤩
Since Apache's can't carry passengers....
It's called a spur ride. Can.talk.
Plans I don't mind
Lots of the details in this are incorrect. The chinhooks that took the lads out originally were sent out with MERT and the only air they had were the 2 apaches.
The majority of these RUclips videos get it wrong.
Can't imagine Gen Z's doing this.
Strap-on boi
this is some shit the russian badger would do
Lek mir isch das attraktiv
Nails
A POINTLESS STORY.
Shame most of the footage here was stock US helicopters not the very effective uk Merlin or joint Chinooks
Daytime raid, smart
The raid started in darkness, in the early hours of the morning mate. I was there. See my account above. Don't be that guy!
@@Spirit-Soldier2026 ya I watched the video and heard that. Still stupid, it doesn't have to take 12 hours for a raid. Poor planning, I'm that guy. You don't know me.
@@sublime929 Thought so!
@@sublime929and you don't have a clue what happened obviously. We don't know you because you're a nobody and always will be.
I'm afraid of hieghts
So this is doing the rounds again
Sounds like a total ballsup. An attack against lightly armed compound, that went wrong and failed. Even with bombers, artillary and Apaches. Then risking more lives for a dead guy.
OOHRAH! HOW COPY OVER?
The question mark would be after copy, not over.
Unprofessional standards using childish cartoon sounds.. SSSSSSWWWWWWWIIIIIISSSSSSHHHH / ZZZZZAAAAAAAPPPP to the dislike button jr
This has been happening since Vietnam
And I don't trust helicopters
Sounds much like an Israeli operation, to the credit of the Brits.
All for NOTHING! We lost all those men and women FOR NOTHING! FJB!
I have always been puzzled how the - supposedly superbly and highly trained - US, British and other coalition soldiers could not take care of the sandal-wearing, ragtag bands of locals...
Wow original take. Think ppl been saying this since 1973. It's not all that hard to figure out if you think for more than 3 secs
@@K37-h1z Thank you, genius! It's so good we have you here, on duty, watching us and caring for our welfare.
@marcelnowakowski945 because they were across the boarder in the surrounding country's just sending militias into Afghanistan...
@@marcelnowakowski945Western troops rarely lost any engagement that they were involved in against the sandal wearers. Only when very heavily outnumbered. Political defeat is a totally different thing. You should be able to understand that.
@@useruseruseruseruser790 You have never had an IQ test, have you?
IGY6;
Armchair experts talking about things ,they know nothing about.
Dying for oil and minerals.