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My son served alongside Polish and Czech troops in Afghanistan. He said they were damn fine soldiers, the best. My son is also part Polish on my wife's side. God bless our Polish and Czech Republic allies for their loyalty, their service and for keeping my American son safe during 65 combat patrols in Afghanistan. #Respect #RLTW
@@pewdiepieisgay7345 you had your time for badassery during siege of Jadotville and used it properly. Btw so called task force eagle (or as Poles called it Polish military contingent ) was generally chronically underpaid and underequiped they weren't even issued enough ammunition for any reasonable fight at the beginning not to mention shitty bulletproof vests and nearly no night vision at the beginning. Some of the equipment (for example most of Mi-24) were so exploatated that they didn't even care to take it back home beacause it was just at the brink of falling from the sky or sudden explosion. Armoured transports and ifv were so badly made that enemy machine guns got through the armour and soldiers had to reinforce it with sandbags and outdated yet still functional bulletproof vests they got from US troops. It's a miracle they managed to hold their area quite well. 2013th is a year that was generally good for contingent forces they even started to pull out some heavy and expensive equipment (there were first signs of incoming trouble in Ukraine).
Thank you. There was this rather controversial case a couple years ago where some Afghans killed a Czech soldier. The Czechs went to get revenge, and some American troops helped them (I think the controversial part was that it somehow involved the ANA and some rules might have been broken during the whole thing). Shady military operations aside, if that's not proof of trust and friendship, I don't know what is.
@Graf von Losinj most Poles i know went to afgan because of economical reasons, ofc when there is camera and they asking why are u here u wont say becouse i wanted to make some money to renovate my house
One of the guys my brother served with back home, voluteered and went there back in 2009. Came home without a leg. He stepped on a landmine when disembarking Rosomak and got his foot with half of the calf blown off. Two guys left APC in front of him and was lucky enough to miss it. It came out that whole roadside was mined so he was laying there for almost two hours until they were able to get to him and put him onboard american medevac.
@@kajmak64bit76 it was always pointless war for polish people they came there for money. Only positive thing that Poland got from there was experience and the fact that army realised they need serious modernization.
Truth, theres alot of notes left out in history books about the endurance and integrity of the Polish people and their willingness against all odds to fight for their freedom and independence, time and time again. Like someone said though there are a decent amount of people in the States that recognize what ya guys do and have done
Thank you Poland for your brotherhood in the GWOT. No matter the outcome in Afghanistan we in the US are thankful, especially for the 44 Polish soldiers killed in action. Polish regiments fighting on after the fall of Poland with allies in WW2 were and are a credit to your country and its history. I salute you.
@@gargamel679 You guys also did the incredible feat of altering the PKM to be able to fire 7.62 NATO rounds, instead of the old Russian round. Much of the chamber had to be redesigned but altered in a way that could be retrofitted to current machine guns, without a full re-design. Poland is awesome, and I'm glad you guys are apart of NATO.
@Joshua N. Ajang I'm not a soldier, but I from what I heard from vets, Polish IFV's were standing out among allied vehicles at first because they come in green camouflage and were nicely visible on desert. Second thing, they have 30 mm auto-cannon, Bradley's had 20 mm and Rosomaks made much bigger boom on greater distance. They were also accurate as hell so tuskens quickly learned that there is no hiding behind stone wall or mud trench 'cos this thing punches right thru.
By far my favorite upload so far, them Polish bois, ya gotta love soviet weapons fighting for NATO. Maybe being their NATO ally explains the three Hinds I saw flying in a delta formation under radar height several years ago in North Florida one day when I was fishing. The sight at first freaked the hell out of me if I’m being honest, maybe they were going down to one of the military bases here in FL, who knows? I’ve always wondered wanting an answer as to why they were flying around, especially since they were clearly flying below radar.
The 160th SOAR, the aviation element of SOCOM, is based in Florida and possessed several Mi-8 "Hip" assault gunships last time I checked. They may also own other Soviet models, like the Mi-24. The 160th uses these assets to operate incognito in countries where modern American rotary wing aircraft, such as the AH-64 and H-60 series, would be conspicuous.
I've seen them a few times over Yuma Arizona. Very surreal looking up and seeing real, armed Russian Mi-24s flying over the desert near a Marine Air Base Although I think they once belonged to Romania or something
It's mounted on a rear sight. This weapon is wz.96 Mini-beryl subcarbine, and it's similar in size to AKS-74U. It's usually issued to some vehicle crews (especially within mechanised infantry, others get SMGs) and LAT soldiers (those who carry RPG-7s), but it may be different on deployment
there is something about this combination of NATO and soviet kit, like, i know its mostly a budget thing but it gives a feeling of like, they chose the best of both worlds. it oozes pragmatism in a good way.
All I wanted was to point and say I was there. Idk what to think now, I wanna go back because we haven’t actively engaged anything since 2011 without using substantial efforts.
I left Afghanistan in 2012 and never got the chance to meet up with the Poles, but I watch this video a lot and for some reason it takes me right back home again.
@@silent_bob_ the HK416 is only used by special forces, most of the grunts use the M762 Beryl and the armed forces are transitioning to using the MSBS Grot (Arrowhead)
@@joooks2254 actually we don't use M762 since we switched to 5,56x45 and M762 uses 7,62x39(we abandoned it in the 80s with tantal wz.88 using 5.45x39 replaced in the 90s with Beryl for NATO cartrige) those are Beryl 96s mostly B or C variants. Edit: There are also some mini-Beryls but they also fire 5.56. M762 was made for export only (Nigeria made reguest that they want this gun but in different ammo).
My grandfather was in the polish army for about a week till the Germans captured him and spent almost 6 years in a Nazi POW camp. He left Poland in 1945 very bitter on what happened to his country.
I was in Afghanistan in 13 as a civilian. Went native, stayed with locals, had no diplomatic or military support, etc. I saw a lot of coalition aircraft but not a single coalition soldier in the flesh. It was all foreign mercenaries doing airport runs and static defense
I remember moving back to Poland from Ireland just to join the army. Applied for deployment but I either didn't enter the criteria or the numbers. I was 18 turning 19 so I said I'll go back to Ireland and go to college than return to serve more hopefully make up for deployment. Never returned. I finished my course and got a shitty job in security. I'm 27 now. 2 kids. My heart broke when when I seen the news of Biden pulling out forces overnight. Sometimes I sit down and stare at the wall and think... what if I stayed... I miss it... I always wanted to make dad proud.
@@phyo1716 2 kids man. Everything is going up in prices like crazy. Heck we're living week to week where we actually had enough money to travel around and make unnecessary expenses before covid hit. But looking at things now it's crazy.
I love watching such authentic combat and operational footage, buy the thrill or adrenaline f the footage has been replaced by a lot of sadness and a deep grudge that we've been lied to all our youths. There's no Great Country, there's no wars of liberation, there were no weapons of mass destruction, there were wars for the control of heroin ( Indochina, Vietnam, Afghanistan), there were no freedom fighters but scum fighting the occupant (except in Fallujah and Samara), the IRA my youthly heroes turned out to be just bullying murderers, and think of all the children murdered, the raped women, the tortures and horrors of war..... and this all is going to pale into nothingness compared to what's coming....the near destruction of humanity.....
it so weird to see this mix of Russian, Western European, and American gear...it's like a bizarro alternate universe version of the Russian occupation in the 80s
Armstrong There’s a difference between the Soviet Union and the United States though, America can pretty much keep Kabul secure for the following decades without issues.
Good vid. Just one constructive critique: better mention something about the troops, either in the title or in the vid description. They seem to from Poland, right?
He did, Task Force White Eagle is their name bro lmao, they're a polish unit that co-sides and I think is somewhat operated (or used to be) by U.S forces command in Afghanistan.
@@juanzulu1318 Legit the first thing you see when you search that up is the polish unit, idk what you're on about man, none of his titles are meant to symbolize anything as it's based off of unit names and/or event names. Or just overall a sentence related to that situation.
@@grumman2727 what is to hard to understand here. A simple "PL" in the title would have indicated the army which the video is about without any need for "research".
@@juanzulu1318 Wdym "research", you can legit copy and paste the name into google and it will show it up, if you're too lazy to move your fingers and press keys then idk what to tell you bro.
