And speaking in her very own Thailish!!
Some thoughts on what happening. All my own. None of this official.
Patrolling Is necessary to patrol on foot. More than necessary essential. To drive though areas in armored vehicles and call this patrol is meaningless. To fly helicopter over rooftop and call patrol even worse. Only foot patrols are effective. This way can talk to people sense what happens what situation is.
Ambushes Opposition in Iraq has no staying power. Will not hold and fight. So if tactic when ambushed is to drive clear then return for counter attack this is very bad. Bad guys will fire at vehicles but by time attack is mounted they fade away. So if ambushed must immediately counter attack ambush then do rat hunt through streets. We were ambushed three four times. Each time this happen we strike back at once. For all fury of ambush bad guys are very very bad shots. If you take the fight to them they are at bad disadvantage. If you not let them go not let them fade away but keep chasing until they are dead or captured this terrify them. We not have one person wounded or killed in these. In the end bad guys keep away from us for we are fierce and they know to start fight mean they must fight to finish.
Overwatch Is also essential to have overwatch at all times. Moving unit must be covered at all times. Snipers very good for this. Our new SSG-3000 work very well. .338 Lapua is good round. Often attack is stopped before it start when overwatch unit spot bad guys and start to drop them.
Duration First three or four seconds of firefight are most dangerous. After that Iraqi fall apart and danger drop very quickly. Cheerful thought. Iraqi hate being shot by woman. This make women fighting in Iraq very effective.
Information From local people mostly unreliable can be trusted not often. Mostly is working off old scores by trying to make trouble for others. Or is just lies made up to impress us with importance or person talking. Also have no idea of difference between truth and rumor. Between fact and opinion. They here rumor that this person has hidden arms one who tell us this will say has seen for self. Also rumor spread far and fast. When we hear this may be for different town or different province. Please to note all rumors are believed by people without thought. Does not matter how foolish such rumors. Why this is do not know but is so. If rumor start everybody believe without thinking. (my take on this is that this is from their lack of development due to living under a dictatorship-Eric)
Ba'ath Party Still there still dangerous. Mostly underground but still there at local level. Rooting these out is top priority.
Build a man a fire you warm him for a night
Set a man on fire you warm him for all his life
Some thoughts on what happening. All my own. None of this official.
Patrolling Is necessary to patrol on foot. More than necessary essential. To drive though areas in armored vehicles and call this patrol is meaningless. To fly helicopter over rooftop and call patrol even worse. Only foot patrols are effective. This way can talk to people sense what happens what situation is.
Ambushes Opposition in Iraq has no staying power. Will not hold and fight. So if tactic when ambushed is to drive clear then return for counter attack this is very bad. Bad guys will fire at vehicles but by time attack is mounted they fade away. So if ambushed must immediately counter attack ambush then do rat hunt through streets. We were ambushed three four times. Each time this happen we strike back at once. For all fury of ambush bad guys are very very bad shots. If you take the fight to them they are at bad disadvantage. If you not let them go not let them fade away but keep chasing until they are dead or captured this terrify them. We not have one person wounded or killed in these. In the end bad guys keep away from us for we are fierce and they know to start fight mean they must fight to finish.
Overwatch Is also essential to have overwatch at all times. Moving unit must be covered at all times. Snipers very good for this. Our new SSG-3000 work very well. .338 Lapua is good round. Often attack is stopped before it start when overwatch unit spot bad guys and start to drop them.
Duration First three or four seconds of firefight are most dangerous. After that Iraqi fall apart and danger drop very quickly. Cheerful thought. Iraqi hate being shot by woman. This make women fighting in Iraq very effective.
Information From local people mostly unreliable can be trusted not often. Mostly is working off old scores by trying to make trouble for others. Or is just lies made up to impress us with importance or person talking. Also have no idea of difference between truth and rumor. Between fact and opinion. They here rumor that this person has hidden arms one who tell us this will say has seen for self. Also rumor spread far and fast. When we hear this may be for different town or different province. Please to note all rumors are believed by people without thought. Does not matter how foolish such rumors. Why this is do not know but is so. If rumor start everybody believe without thinking. (my take on this is that this is from their lack of development due to living under a dictatorship-Eric)
Ba'ath Party Still there still dangerous. Mostly underground but still there at local level. Rooting these out is top priority.
Build a man a fire you warm him for a night
Set a man on fire you warm him for all his life
