From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:27:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Afghan Pics
A collection of pictures from Afghanistan: http://www.cellnine.com/pender/web/oef/oef.html Includes such 'exotic' troops as Swedes and Romanians. Quite a bit of ideas for modelling/painting Greetings Karl Heinz
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:54:17 -0400
Subject: Re: Afghan Pics
> At 11:27 AM +0200 9/5/02, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote: Lots of good shots in general too. Thanks for letting us know about it. They even had pics of PP'sCLI. There's an extant NAC unit if I ever saw one.
From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Afghan Pics
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote: > A collection of pictures from Afghanistan: Very interesting gallery - thanks, Karl. I've just set this one up as my desktop wallpaper: http://www.cellnine.com/pender/web/oef/isaf/b_cdn01.jpg Forget mocking the French for their shorts, what about the ability of British troops (SAS especially) to look nearly as bandit-like as some of the locals?:) Even the British Army regular guys 'go native' way more than anyone else! (There's the one pic of a helicopter full of Regular Army troopies, at least half of whom seem to be wearing burnooses...) (Minor historical question: why isn't the Brit Army the "Royal Army" when the UK's Navy, Artillery and even Air Force are all "Royal"?)
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 20:44:17 -0400
Subject: Re: Afghan Pics
> At 2:46 PM -0700 9/5/02, Brian Burger wrote: I'd expect that it probably helps out a bit when it comes to chatting with the locals and blending in. Not that the locals can't tell who's who. The SBS troop with Burnoose, WWII pattern T-handle Shovel and Rifle is pretty interesting. > (Minor historical question: why isn't the Brit Army the "Royal Army" when > the UK's Navy, Artillery and even Air Force are all "Royal"?) Because the Army was founded by a man who wasn't Royal. That'd be Oliver Cromwell. (that's how I understand it)
From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Afghan Pics
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Ryan Gill wrote: > At 11:27 AM +0200 9/5/02, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote: Probably! Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry have come up before in the context of 'what units exist in the NAC'! (I like the new American NAC regt, the King's Own Memphis Rifles, myself... dress uniform does NOT include blue suede shoes. They get stepped on, see.) It's usually abbreviated just as PPCLI, btw. Neater that way. Oh, and thanks for the info about why the UK Army isn't all Royal, everyone. Most interesting. Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca - - http://wind.prohosting.com/~warbard/games.html - > --