tdayof:

Mambo.

I hope to Visit Kenya next summer for some stuff. I have a lot of Kenyan friends here. I hope the foods tastes great.

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa partnered with Uganda People' s Defense Force soldiers during training, Oct. 7- Dec. 1. The bilateral training mission focused on sharing tactics in a multitude of skills including heavy equipment operation, mechanical work, motor transport techniques, communication and combat engineering.

patches689:
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Alleppo has been fully liberated!

patches689:
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Alleppo has been fully liberated!

patches689:
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Alleppo has been fully liberated!

BlackBaron:

Small enclave still left.
Unfortunately, Palmyra got captured by shitty state, there'll have to be coordinated pushes on Mosul, raqqa, Palmyra (relieve Deir er Zor) in order to put the terrorists on the defensive instead of an ability to mount offensives at different points.

Henry240:

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4000 Jihadists attacked a position held by under 1000 Syrian army soldiers. i read the Tiger unit is currently assessing the situation.

BlackBaron:

Small enclave still left.
Unfortunately, Palmyra got captured by shitty state, there'll have to be coordinated pushes on Mosul, raqqa, Palmyra (relieve Deir er Zor) in order to put the terrorists on the defensive instead of an ability to mount offensives at different points.

Patchesagain:

Word is the FSA has agreed to leave the city in the famous "green busses"... Same way many other pockets have been shut down.
Palmyra is a meme city, the real center of gravity in the area is T2 airbase, just west of it.... Biggest arms stockpile in the country, and it's locked down tiiight
Now the interesting part comes... With Aleppo out the way the FSA will have 25 000 men (including Hawks/Tiger brigade)... Where they go will tell us everything we need to know

Henry240:


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4000 Jihadists attacked a position held by under 1000 Syrian army soldiers. i read the Tiger unit is currently assessing the situation.

BlackBaron:

Doubt up to 4000.
From equipment captured, it showed very little defence of the city. Seems like the main bulk of the army got deployed elsewhere and left less experienced (paramilitary) numbers in Palmyra. Besides, small numbers of Tiger Forces were also in Palmyra when terrorists attacked. In another way, it also shows the poor quality of troops in many Arab units, once an enemy attacks, they peel away only for another counter attack to recapture previously captured areas by others which costs more lives.

Most likely after Aleppo, Desert hawks, Tiger forces and the mix of the proscribed terror groups fighting for Assad would have to be redeployed there.

BlackBaron:

Doubt up to 4000.
From equipment captured, it showed very little defence of the city. Seems like the main bulk of the army got deployed elsewhere and left less experienced (paramilitary) numbers in Palmyra. Besides, small numbers of Tiger Forces were also in Palmyra when terrorists attacked. In another way, it also shows the poor quality of troops in many Arab units, once an enemy attacks, they peel away only for another counter attack to recapture previously captured areas by others which costs more lives.

Most likely after Aleppo, Desert hawks, Tiger forces and the mix of the proscribed terror groups fighting for Assad would have to be redeployed there.

Patchesagain:


Only 300 isis (max)

the entire Tiger forces division is in Aleppo, it took them 3 weeks to move from Palmyra to Aleppo so I doubt they will play much of a role in the coming days.

No one knows what the Desert Hawks Brigade are doing, they are all over the place, Aleppo, Homs and somehow they got into the beseiged airbase at Dez-Azzur.

rugged7:
Another Nigeria Army Lt. Col. Otus Umusu Killed By B/Haram Terrorists.

He's The 4th Army Officer Killed In 2 Months.

RIP

giles14:
the Syrian army is over stretched, and above all Palmyra is more or less not an important town apart from the T4 tiyas air base near it

frumentius:


At the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, yes. Recruitment by private military contractors depleted the ranks but the situation has somewhat stabilised since then. Can't divulge figures but let's just say this: used to be Jozi and Cape Town bases which had full complement and operators had to fly if needed elsewhere.

Now it's bases in most of the metros. We're still losing operators to PMCs (and to the bloody PPU CAT, which doesn't want to train its own! -my STF mate insists I put that down) though, across all of our elite units.

Odunayaw:
you should be proud...these guys make hunting look good
but wait...they r just 99? really?

Henry240:
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The joys of watching Al-jazeera wail!!


I hope they won't burn their Doha offices when Raqqa falls.


Bunch of terrorist sympathizers.

frumentius:
A year ago, this time. Durban, South Africa to [Malawi, along the entire lake!], Pemba, Mozambique via Dar, Tanzania, on motorbike.
A post-deployment indulgence for me.

Despite all our petty fights on this thread, everyone(?) here had good wishes.

africaken254:
kenya air force Short Tucanos trainer aircraft

Henry240:
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The joys of watching Al-jazeera wail!!


I hope they won't burn their Doha offices when Raqqa falls.


Bunch of terrorist sympathizers.

jteku:


Would have been glad if you guys would cut across sambisa forest northeast Nigeria on your bikes, and get us some front line pictures....I assure you it will be fun