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    Arrow 10-047 Garand Picture of the Day-10th Special Forces Group

    Members of the 10th Special Forces Group, standing in front of the field equipment they use.
    Location: Germanyicon
    Date taken: February 1956
    Photographer: Ralph Crane


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    The 10th Special Forces Group in Bad Tölz....nice guys.

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    gunner, did you now these guys or the group? tell us about them or the group and how you knew them. thanks, jay

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    Duggaboy,

    i will write soon but now i have to go to the Range.

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    Hi Jay,

    sorry for the late reply, but i was on the way to the range.
    I met them the first time in 1989 in Bad Tölz during a fun competition with some of our Soldiers it was nice because they were friendly and they showed us a lot of their equipment and they were all really great shooters. The BBQ after the competition ( we wasnt the first placed) was funny and we talked a lot of their service. I forgot the names but i remember that i had a interesting conversation to an Weapons Sergeant. In 1990 they stayed for a week at our barracks for having combat exercises with us. I served as an Mountain soldier in the 1. Gebirgsdivision. At the first day we had some woodland combat situations where we were the bad guys and with my Team ( i was the Teamleader) we were able to destroy one of their A-Teams, this was the good part, the bad part was that their machine gunner killed me. The next days was our advantage to know the territory gone and we lost more and more man against those extremly well trained guys. And after a few lessons in making traps i will know that i dont go into an forest that this guys had prepared. Later they moved to Stuttgart and i lost contact. I know that some of them were at Iraq. Last week i`ve seen a Docu movie of an A-Team in Afghanistan they filmed how they made their way thru villages and a road beside an Mountain where they found a lot of booby-traps after it was getting darker their Captain(?) said that he hopes that the Taliban will be quiet. That was wrong. They had some of the Afghanistan soldiers on trucks with them and one idiot switches the lights of his truck on and presents an Humvee in a shiny light to the Talibans and they sent a rocket to that car with the poor guys in it. All of them were killed. I felt bad about this with the background of knowing some of those nice guys of the Special Forces. And i was very angry and i am sure that i killed this a$$hole in the truck. Now you know my little but really good experiences with some of this great guys. My respects to all of them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gunner View Post
    Hi Jay,

    sorry for the late reply, but i was on the way to the range.
    I met them the first time in 1989 in Bad Tölz during a fun competition with some of our Soldiers it was nice because they were friendly and they showed us a lot of their equipment and they were all really great shooters. The BBQ after the competition ( we wasnt the first placed) was funny and we talked a lot of their service. I forgot the names but i remember that i had a interesting conversation to an Weapons Sergeant. In 1990 they stayed for a week at our barracks for having combat exercises with us. I served as an Mountain soldier in the 1. Gebirgsdivision. At the first day we had some woodland combat situations where we were the bad guys and with my Team ( i was the Teamleader) we were able to destroy one of their A-Teams, this was the good part, the bad part was that their machine gunner killed me. The next days was our advantage to know the territory gone and we lost more and more man against those extremly well trained guys. And after a few lessons in making traps i will know that i dont go into an forest that this guys had prepared. Later they moved to Stuttgart and i lost contact. I know that some of them were at Iraq. Last week i`ve seen a Docu movie of an A-Team in Afghanistan they filmed how they made their way thru villages and a road beside an Mountain where they found a lot of booby-traps after it was getting darker their Captain(?) said that he hopes that the Taliban will be quiet. That was wrong. They had some of the Afghanistan soldiers on trucks with them and one idiot switches the lights of his truck on and presents an Humvee in a shiny light to the Talibans and they sent a rocket to that car with the poor guys in it. All of them were killed. I felt bad about this with the background of knowing some of those nice guys of the Special Forces. And i was very angry and i am sure that i killed this a$$hole in the truck. Now you know my little but really good experiences with some of this great guys. My respects to all of them!

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    When I was in the 101st Abn at Ft Campbell, our Battle Group went down to Ft Bragg for war games against the 82nd. We had a platoon defensive perimeter set up and here came three hunters walking toward us with shotguns and a bird dog. Sarge had a fit and started yelling that they were in the wrong place etc. One of them replied they were lost and needed directions so Sarge told them to come thru the perimeter. When they came thru, they Pointed the shotguns at us and told us they were Special Forces and we were their prisoners. It was pretty embarrasing.

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    snakehunter,

    good story, they are really tricky, but good! It were nice to see the face of your Sarge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakehunter View Post
    When I was in the 101st Abn at Ft Campbell, our Battle Group went down to Ft Bragg for war games against the 82nd. We had a platoon defensive perimeter set up and here came three hunters walking toward us with shotguns and a bird dog. Sarge had a fit and started yelling that they were in the wrong place etc. One of them replied they were lost and needed directions so Sarge told them to come thru the perimeter. When they came thru, they Pointed the shotguns at us and told us they were Special Forces and we were their prisoners. It was pretty embarrasing.
    was this before or after the movie The Dirty Dozen
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester View Post
    was this before or after the movie The Dirty Dozen
    WAAAY before. I think it was 1960 or '59. I don't remember exactly.

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