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Learn to talk 'Bootneck': How to communicate with a Marine - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; Jets scream low on the horizon in Sangin, Helmand province. Life in Sangin Camp ». 20 November 2007 11:58 AM. Learn to talk 'Bootneck': How to communicate with a Marine. Britain's Armed Forces are divided very clearly into tribes, and the Royal Marines tribe speaks its own language, similar but quite different to the Army's various dialects. A member of the Marine tribe is a Bootneck. To a Marine, something fine or admirable is hoofing. Something bad or. Blown up, or God'll be threaders with me.
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On patrol with the Marines in no-man's land - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; The Afghans have known nothing but war for 30 years, so how can they rebuild their country alone? Night patrol in the Taliban's backyard ». 28 November 2007 1:10 PM. On patrol with the Marines in no-man's land. To fix a small hole in the road at Kajaki, Afghanistan, requires several scores of heavily-armed Royal Marines and Gurkhas including snipers, combat engineers, medics and mortar teams. Scroll down for more. Virtually all the local civilians have fled, so that instead of patrolling through b...
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Night patrol in the Taliban's backyard - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; On patrol with the Marines in no-man's land. Life at the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric power station ». 29 November 2007 3:58 PM. Night patrol in the Taliban's backyard. Through the abandoned, silent town where weeds grow in the street and doors hang off their hinges, there is no talking. The patrol trudges on in double file, spaced on either side of the road, out onto the deserted plain that is no-man's land. It is 2.30am, and the moonlight is so bright there is no need for night vision goggles. After...
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The Afghans have known nothing but war for 30 years, so how can they rebuild their country alone? - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; How I watched British troops in desperate battle with Taliban for hearts and minds. On patrol with the Marines in no-man's land ». 26 November 2007 5:33 PM. The Afghans have known nothing but war for 30 years, so how can they rebuild their country alone? Thursday is Shura day at the British military base in Sangin, northern Helmand Province. It is not to be confused with compensation claim day, which is Tuesday. But more of that later. At one end Maj Cheesman is joined by the Governor, the local p...
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Life in Sangin Camp - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; Learn to talk 'Bootneck': How to communicate with a Marine. On the hunt for the Taliban ». 20 November 2007 12:22 PM. Life in Sangin Camp. Life for military men at war is often said to consist of long periods of boredom, punctuated by moments of terror. For the Royal Marines based at Sangin in northern Helmand, there seems to be little time to spare for boredom. The troops use all their ingenuity to make themselves surprisingly comfortable in these primitive surroundings. Scroll down for more.
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Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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02 December 2007 5:08 PM. The struggle and the danger go on and on. We are out on our last night patrol with the Royal Marines, and about to receive a bleak reminder of the risks and dangers British forces face on the ground in Afghanistan. It is 5am and we have been on the move for almost two hours, a large force of Marines from 40 Commando and Afghan National Army soldiers advancing in silence across the moonlit plain to the north of Kajaki Dam. No, his colleagues insist. It was too close. As we wait f...
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Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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30 November 2007 5:06 PM. Life at the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric power station. Chief Engineer Sayed Rasul has run the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric power station since the day it opened in 1975. In 32 years he has served under the old. Afghan Republic, the. Soviet Union's occupying forces, the Mujahadeen, the Taliban and now the British military. The Taliban have hit the structure with rockets during recent fighting - probably by accident - and barely scratched it. True, the engineers have had to become expert...
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Life at the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric power station - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; Night patrol in the Taliban's backyard. The struggle and the danger go on and on ». 30 November 2007 5:06 PM. Life at the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric power station. Chief Engineer Sayed Rasul has run the Kajaki Dam hydroelectric power station since the day it opened in 1975. In 32 years he has served under the old. Afghan Republic, the. Soviet Union's occupying forces, the Mujahadeen, the Taliban and now the British military. In a country full of squalor, mud-walled homes and dust, this clean buildin...
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How I watched British troops in desperate battle with Taliban for hearts and minds - Mail Online - Afghan Diaries: Matthew Hickley reports from Helmand Province
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Laquo; On the hunt for the Taliban. The Afghans have known nothing but war for 30 years, so how can they rebuild their country alone? 23 November 2007 5:54 PM. How I watched British troops in desperate battle with Taliban for hearts and minds. British soldiers under attack in southern Afghanistan fire mortar shells to repel a Taliban night assault. Close up: An intense pounding sound from the mortars can be heard all night at the camp. Men from Mortar Platoon, the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, scrambl...
