British 16 Air Assault Brigade + USMC = Dead taliban

Here's a eyewitness account of a deployment of Brit troops and their close, smooth and professional battlefield cooperation with USMC resulting in Terry Taliban getting his arse severely kicked. Guardian
Hat Tip: GM

Our initial destination, though, was Forward Operations Base Delhi, the southernmost British Army outpost in Afghanistan, which looks as though it's been forgotten about. It is very basic, but comfortable. The toilets are not the best, with a wooden support above a large metal cylinder. The flies are everywhere and take great pleasure in crawling all over you.

The accommodation is comprised of old buildings which were built by the locals and it is surrounded by Hesco Bastion - wired mesh and heavy fabric blocks - for added protection from indirect fire. The gym is probably the best thing here equipment-wise, with running machines, cross trainers, exercise bikes, steppers, and rowing machines. The Jocks have now built their own boxing ring as well and are all now apprentice Ricky Hattons. Saying that, a couple of months' training and they will be ready for the army inter-unit championships next year.

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In the following few days, A Company 2 Platoon pushed south to try to secure Gumpy. At times, advancing was slow and tedious due to the high threat from IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and we had to clear the route as we moved. On securing a specific compound we had targeted, the company commander deemed that it had good enough observation arcs to the south and the west to provide good overwatch for a US marine company that was pushing south. On the whole, the US marines were a really good bunch of lads who were very professional. After a night of sentry duty with the Yanks as company, the US marines' Charlie Company arrived and started pushing south. It was not long before they were contacted and some intense battles started as they pushed towards a Taliban training camp east of our position. We had good eyes on this and were providing overwatch for the ground call signs at the time. We were soon under fire from rocket-propelled grenades from the area to our south-east. A four-man enemy team had infiltrated to the north-west edge and was firing at both our observation points. We identified the attackers' position and the Americans steered the "grunts" - their nickname for US infantry ground marines - on to the Taliban and they were duly dealt with.

Moments later, an enemy anti-aircraft gun in the area showed itself. This was an immediate threat to us as aircraft were constantly flying overhead. So, with the US marines' blessing, I instructed our Javelin, a portable anti-tank missile system, to engage that target.

Initially we thought the Javelin's missile had missed or locked on to another source as it headed east behind a tree line. This seriously pissed us all off as there were a lot of coalition helicopters in the area and we didn't want the missile engaging one of ours. However, the message filtered through later on that evening that we had destroyed the Taliban anti-aircraft gun and vehicle, which was great news for us and especially for Lance Corporal Storrie, who was taking a serious hounding when we thought we had missed.

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