abcnews.go.com— The combat troops are expected to return home over the next few weeks. Local media reports said the first of the soldiers had already landed in Australia on Sunday afternoon.
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strategy and tactics is what I was talking about. Not hardware.I will agree that the US develops more and probably better hardware than anyone else. And landing on the moon and other space missions while incredible feats of engineering and ingenuity, have nothing to do with battle strategy.But American troops are sadly not the best trained in the world. They should be, considering, but they're not. I'm not even talking about SAS type outfits, because honestly I don't know that much about US marines, but your average boot on the ground grunt - doesn't get the same training, nor the same value on his head as regulars from several other countries.The average US regular is militarily considered more expendable then his counterparts from other nations.His country might have invented a better gun, or they might not have - but either way he is still more likely to end up dead.
bobothekingJun 2, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49c-_YOkmMU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49c-_YOkmMU</a>
Closed AccountJun 3, 2008
49; 2 or more
grumpyrainJun 3, 2008
> Australia still has habeus corpus!Unless it is politically inconvenient I suppose.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks</a>
dharmaturtleJun 3, 2008
The hell with the random apostrophe? Jeez, just look above you.
grumpyrainJun 3, 2008
> Low ass corruption. Or so much that I've just never heard of it :p"Mark Standen, 51, an assistant director with the NSW Crime Commission and a former federal police officer, has been charged with conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of a border controlled precursor, conspiracy to supply a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice."<a class="user" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cop-accused-of-betrayal/2008/06/03/1212258796852.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cop-accused-of ...</a>
jashobeam5Jun 4, 2008
Yeah, because no one attacked the US or the UK before we went to war in Iraq. /sarc
goldfisheyJun 4, 2008
strategy and tactics is what I was talking about. Not hardware.I will agree that the US develops more and probably better hardware than anyone else. And landing on the moon and other space missions while incredible feats of engineering and ingenuity, have nothing to do with battle strategy.But American troops are sadly not the best trained in the world. They should be, considering, but they're not. I'm not even talking about SAS type outfits, because honestly I don't know that much about US marines, but your average boot on the ground grunt - doesn't get the same training, nor the same value on his head as regulars from several other countries.The average US regular is militarily considered more expendable then his counterparts from other nations.His country might have invented a better gun, or they might not have - but either way he is still more likely to end up dead.
jack104Jun 7, 2008
What you classify as a pointless war, I classify as an inevitable one.
ishtiaqueSep 8, 2009
long overdue