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The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an
Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. As the Apache has no spare seats, they had to be strapped on to the outside of the helicopter, one on each wing. A third Apache provided support. It turned out that Lance Corporal Ford had been killed so the four recovered his body and went out the way they had come in. They were on the ground for about five minutes, part of the time under fire. The detailed story is on the MoD's web site at: http://tinyurl.com/3a5u5r If you haven't already seen it, I've also upped MoD's brief video to alt.binaries.multimedia.aviation. -- |
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"Netko" wrote in message
x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? -- Alan Erskine |
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"Netko" wrote in message
x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? -- Alan Erskine |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
"Netko" wrote in message x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? -- Alan Erskine Firepower? -- Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart/albums/ |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
"Netko" wrote in message x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? -- Alan Erskine Firepower? -- Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart/albums/ |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
"Netko" wrote in message x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? -- Alan Erskine Perhaps that was what was available on short notice. -- Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart/albums/ |
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Alan Erskine wrote:
"Netko" wrote in message x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - and I'm about to post them here for anyone who's interested. In brief, a Royal Marine - Lance Corporal Mathew Ford of 45 Commando - was found to be missing during Operation Glacier, after an (apparently unsuccessful) assault on Jugroom Fort, a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province. To recover him, two Army Air Corps Apaches flew back in with a total of four passengers, three from the Royal Marines and one from the Royal Engineers. But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? -- Alan Erskine Perhaps that was what was available on short notice. -- Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart/albums/ |
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:02:23 +0000, Paul Elliot wrote
(in message ): Perhaps that was what was available on short notice. The nearest Lynx is in Iraq. The British Army only has Apaches in Afghanistan. They considered using an RAF Chinook which was to hand, as well as a ground attempt using Vikings. However, the fort area was still in the hands of the Taliban so the Apache was chosen because it was smaller, faster and better armed. -- |
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:02:23 +0000, Paul Elliot wrote
(in message ): Perhaps that was what was available on short notice. The nearest Lynx is in Iraq. The British Army only has Apaches in Afghanistan. They considered using an RAF Chinook which was to hand, as well as a ground attempt using Vikings. However, the fort area was still in the hands of the Taliban so the Apache was chosen because it was smaller, faster and better armed. -- |
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Użytkownik "Alan Erskine" napisał w wiadomo¶ci ... "Netko" wrote in message x.com... The UK's Ministry of Defence has released some shots of an Apache-borne attempt to recover a missing Marine in Afghanistan - But why use the Apache? Why not use their Lynx's? Or Mi-24 ;-) -- Regards Jaroslaw Manek ----------------------- www.aero-foto.pl |
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