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What a load of s*** the teams deploy with thousands of rounds in HE, .50, personal weapons, rockets. Squad weapons (LMG) if they had already depleted that much ammo without the Rapid reaction teams and S&R arriving then they must have been fighting hundreds at once. Then the perimeter would have to be overran avoiding claymore mines and disarming the soldier of his weapon/bayonet/entrenching tool
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@Dreadnought , I googled it. Apparently they got ambushed and stuck inside a dried riverbed shooting around 50 Isis fighters from all sides and were pretty convinced they were going to be captured and tortured so they tried to take as many out as they could, eventually resorting to bashing fighters with their guns and rocks before Isis gave up
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@Dreadnought , Yeah that's what I was saying. Confusing. If they had the men and the armaments to cause the SAS to run out of ammo, they wouldn't call it quits after their comrades died trying to take 'em alive, they'd just shoot to kill or lob something down there. Then again, history is written by the victors.
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@Dreadnought , I'm open to any possibility but sounds pretty close to what I was thinking. Squad returns back from firefight with nearly no ammo, no injuries. Get asked what happened. "Oh we got like 50 guys during an ambush near the dried riverbed two clicks from here." "Yeah ol' Jimmy boy here clocked a guy with a rock and drowned his buddy too in a two inch puddle!" Reporter takes info and writes article
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I really wish we heard stories like this more often, or even on the mainstream media. This stuff is hella cool, and I'm sure there are even crazier stories like this that never see the light of day. Does this remind anyone else of the Spartans VS the Persians? 300? Where the Spartans fought until their weapons broke and then picked up rocks and finally using just their fists? One of my favorite stories of all time.
Welcome to special forces units. Where they dont give a flying fvck and do what they came to do