Surrounded

[Gil Boyd]

How General Custer would have liked these toys in all round defence

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[Beerhunter]

How General Custer would have liked these toys in all round defence

He couldn't even be bothered to take his Gatling Guns!

[RCS]

The Gatling guns would not have changed the outcome

[browningautorifle]

I agree, I've walked the ground several times and been an Infantry Platoon second in command for years...I don't believe if he had todays weapons with front line load, he'd have changed things. There was a human wave dedicated to his destruction. Even the women were involved...

I see only three men's kit there...you guys really did jump heavy Gil?

[enfield303t]

Well one thing is for sure, he wouldn't have been "worse off"!

[Gil Boyd]

Jim,
I think it was Fathers Day for these two, or they drew the short straw. 3 PARA always were greedy when it came to weapons.

[browningautorifle]

3 PARA always were greedy

Better greedy then short handed I should think.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

" bring it"

[Gil Boyd]

" bring it"

Sadly they often did where the lads were located in Helmand, thats why they had to be prepared for every eventuality.

[rayg]

Well if it was the way it was then, the Indians would have been even better armed then that, Ray