God Bless the Scots!

[Packo]

Well, my people are at it again.


BAYONET BRITS KILL 35 REBELS.

(The Sun, UK) 5/16/04

OUTNUMBERED Britis soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army's first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago. The fearless ARGYLL and SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS stomed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.

Depite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.

The battle erupted after Land rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.

After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.

When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway---and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured.

An Army spokesman said: "This was an intense engagement." (No shit Packo adds.)

The last bayonet charge was by the SCOTS GUARDS and the PARAS, (Airborne to you non-hackers), against Argentinian positions. (end)

Can you imagine the look in those Iraqi/Al Queda eyes as they pop the ambush thinking they were gonna blow away these guys. Next thing they know they have 20 screamin' Scots charging them with bayonets! I imagine the trail of poop would have led to their hidout. Good Show!

My beloved relatives! LONACH!

McPacko

[DMZ-LT]

I put a bayonet on one day. Kind of gives you a this is it feeling and it ain't gonna be me. During bayonet training ( what's the spirit of the bayonet - TO KILL ) they told us if you stuck someone and the bayonet got stuck to fire a round to disloge it. I thought , to myself , if I had a round left I wasn't sticking nobody. Good show by your people. Scouts Out !

[PHO127]

Its is nice to see an Army that knows how to fight. If our guys did that they would probably be Courts Martialed for war crimes.

[Packo]

Lt,

It's "To Kill Without Mercy!" as I recall. I agree.....have rounds, no need for bayonet.

Sid, Yep, cruel and unusual killing. By the way, I know you were busy with the PsychoVets campout....but still haven't received the 3 mugs I ordered. Do we need to do that again or do you have the info?

Packman

[Desdichado]

Nice job!

[MORTARDUDE]

Packo :

Great story !! My relatives are from the MacNichol clan.

Larry

[Andy]

What I always remembered about bayonet fighting was: ?There are only two kinds of bayonet fighters, the quick and the dead.? You just never know when your going to run into the King James Bible.

I sort of got all turned on by the idea of just once being in a bayonet fight while learning the moves in Basic. Yeah, another example of "dumb kid". However after we got to AIT they issued us M-16?s, it didn?t seem quite as interesting. Then in Vietnam, the first 18 months I never saw a bayonet. Didn?t see one till I got to Saigon. Course Saigon and Ton Sun Nuht was where they really needed them.

Hats off to the Brits, too bad there wasn?t a camera crew there.

Stay healthy,
Andy

[exlrrp]

Scots are some hardy bastards, no error, one of the most far travelling of the warlike tribes, too. Well I guess you have to be when youre wearing a skirt.
I have some scotch ancestry also, English, too who are some more hardy bastards, together, them and the Scots pretty much conquered a good sized part of the world.
And the ones who gave them the most trouble were the Germans and thats the rest of my ancestry. Rest asured, my ancestors probably slaughtered each other. Both sides in the CW also.
Talk about your troublemakers--these were folks who thought they knew how to rule the world and took a pretty good stab at doing it..

James

[Packo]

Larry,

We ar Ku Klux. (Just kidding)

Forbes here and Robertson. I still have relatives in Scotland, and one practices medicine in Cambridge, UK. (NOT MASS!)

McPacko

[Arrow]