It's a Trap!

[dburkhead]

A large group of Taliban soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune."One United States Marine is better than ten Taliban!"

The Taliban commander quickly sends 10 of his best soldiers over the dune, where upon a gun battle breaks and continues for a few minutes, then silence.

The voice then calls out "One United States Marine is better than one hundred Taliban!"

Furious, the Taliban commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge firefight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.

The American voice calls out again "One United States Marine is better than one thousand Taliban!"

The enraged Taliban Commander musters one thousand fighters and sends them across the dune. Cannons, rockets and machine guns ring out as a huge battle is fought. Then silence.

Eventually one wounded Taliban fighter crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men, it's a trap. There's two of them!"

 

[Slab]

Nice!!!!!

 

[Caleb]

I heard the scottish version of this joke

 

[Crystalship1]

Repped!!!

 

[SavageEagle]

Yea! Brings a tear to your eye don't it?

REPPED!

 

[flagtag]

 

[Benny]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[jwalt01]

yes!!!

 

[Seancass]

(it was actually girl scouts wearing marine uniforms)

 

[Pami]

Better still.. the Marines got Silver Stars for their efforts...

Ten Silver Stars for Afghan battle - Washington Post- msnbc.com

 

[Benny]

Better still.. the Marines got Silver Stars for their efforts...

Ten Silver Stars for Afghan battle - Washington Post- msnbc.com

That.

Is.

Awesome.

 

[flagtag]

Thanks for the great article, Pami. I saw this on the news, but the story was so much better. God bless those guys!

I am so glad that Sgt. John Wayne's thumb felt "great". I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at that.

 

[Bill of Rights]

The article is no longer available, however I found this:

Details on soldiers awarded Silver Stars


[SIZE=-1]By The Associated Press[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Associated Press[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Friday, December 12, 2008; 7:31 AM[/SIZE]

-- Ten soldiers from the 3rd Special Forces Group received Silver Stars for valor during an April 2008 mission in the Skok Valley in Afghanistan. Following are names of the soldiers, their hometowns and summations of their medal citations:

_ Staff Sgt. Dillon Behr, Rock Island, Ill.
Behr held his position even after sustaining a life-threatening wound to his leg. Behr continued to fire at insurgents despite being critically wounded a second time, allowing injured U.S. and Afghan soldiers to be evacuated. Behr fought until he was physically incapable of holding his rifle.
_ Spc. Michael D. Carter, Smithville, Texas.
Carter left his covered position and charged 15 feet into heavy fire to get a critically wounded soldier. Carter treated two team members, allowing the medic to render aid to 10 wounded Afghan commandos. Later, Carter assisted in an extremely dangerous rescue of more than six casualties down a near vertical 60 foot cliff.
_ Master Sgt. Scott Ford, Athens, Ohio
Ford organized a counter assault to reinforce his besieged teammates. Ford exposed himself to insurgent fire in order to direct the soldiers in the wadi below to move forward and assist in moving casualties. His upper left arm was almost shot off by a sniper round. With a tourniquet on his arm to stop arterial bleeding, Ford was able to climb down the mountain.
_ Staff Sgt. Seth E. Howard, Keene, N.H.
Howard fought up a 60-foot cliff under intense fire after hearing two critically wounded members were in danger of being overrun. Placing himself between his wounded comrades and the enemy fire, he provided counter sniper fire, killing between 10 and 20 insurgents. He refused to withdraw from his position, although he had less than a magazine left of ammunition, until all of his teammates and commandos were off the mountain.
_ Staff Sgt. Luis Morales, Fredericksburg, Va.
With total disregard for his own personal safety, Morales ran into the line of fire to aid a wounded teammate and used his body to shield his teammate until he was wounded. Ignoring the severity of his wound, and losing a tremendous amount of blood, he quickly administered self aid and then returned to providing life saving help to his more severely wounded teammate.
_ Staff Sgt. David J. Sanders, Huntsville, Ala.
Sanders located an alternate but more arduous route down the mountain. Sanders ascended and descended the mountain three times to move casualties.
_ Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Shurer, Pullman, Wash.
Shurer immediately rendered aid to four critically wounded U.S. and 10 injured commandos under intense fire. At least twice, he dashed into the open to treat a wounded soldier.
_ Staff Sgt. John W. Walding, Groesbeck, Texas
Walding led an attack five hundred meters up treacherous terrain, braving close air strikes to reinforce the most forward position. Despite receiving a life threatening injury, Walding continued to suppress insurgent positions in order to defend his comrades. One of his legs had to be amputated.
_ Capt. Kyle M. Walton, Carmel, Ind.
Walton repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire in order to pull wounded Americans and Afghans to safety. Walton called in effective air strikes and even dropped a 2,000-pound bomb almost directly on his position to prevent insurgent forces from overruning his force.
_ Staff Sgt. Matthew O. Williams, Casper, Wyo.
Williams fought for over an hour up a mountain while under intense enemy fire to help rescue wounded members of his team. After his team sergeant was wounded, he ran through a gauntlet of heavy machine gun fire to render aid. He then helped his team sergeant climb down a near 60 foot vertical cliff to the casualty collection point. Williams then braved more fire to climb back up the hill and help his other teammates down the cliff to safety.

© 2008 The Associated Press​

God bless you, gentlemen.

Bill

 

[flagtag]

AMEN!

 

[Bigum1969]

Here's a link to a thread where a link to a CNN story about the battle and brave soldiers is posted:

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/break_room/15565-heroes_including_one_from_indiana.html

 

[Pami]

Here's a link to a thread where a link to a CNN story about the battle and brave soldiers is posted:

https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/break_room/15565-heroes_including_one_from_indiana.html

Thanks, Bigum.. I almost merged the threads when I saw the other one posted later, but decided not to since this thread started out as a funny and the news definitely merited its own thread.

I can't believe how this article keeps getting squashed. I first saw it when I was eating lunch and reading MSN, and then when I got home from work and saw the joke in the OP, I thought of the story and went looking for it to add to the thread. It had been a "top story" when I saw it at lunch time, but I actually had to "search" MSN to find it a few hours later. It wasn't even listed in their US News->Military section.

Hopefully the CNN one stays put.

Now back to your regularly scheduled giggles.

 

[right winger]

Good One.