Brit Combat "Air-Drop" in Afghanistan?

[Kirkhill]

Canadians ready for major offensive in Afghanistan
GRAEME SMITH

Globe and Mail Update

Kandahar, Afghanistan — ....

Meanwhile, coalition and Afghan forces reportedly killed 26 suspected militants Wednesday in fighting in eastern mountains.

Suspected Taliban militants attacked a coalition logistics patrol in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, killing one American soldier and wounding two others, the U.S. military said.

About 100 British troops were quickly air-dropped in to support the patrol and coalition air fire was believed to have killed or wounded 12 rebels, said coalition spokesman Maj. Quentin Innis. Another coalition soldier died in combat in the eastern Kunar region.

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Allowing for the variable verbiage of civvy reporters it would be interesting to know if the Brits jumped in or were lifted in.  IIRC they took their 'chutes and intended to make a splash by arriving by air.

 

[Bobbyoreo]

Saw that this morning...thought it was weird. Anyone know for sure about this air drop?

 

[Journeyman]

About 100 British troops were quickly air-dropped in to support the patrol and coalition air fire was believed to have killed or wounded 12 rebels, said coalition spokesman Maj. Quentin Innis.

I don't know if Q has gone over to the dark side and become a PAffO, or whether they just stuck him into a "coalition spokesman" loadstation, but he is/was PPCLI. I'm pretty sure he knows the terminology. But again, how that gets translated by the media.....

 

[McG]

The Brits in Helmund are paratroops.

Q is still a Patricia.

 

[Journeyman]

Q is still a Patricia.

All the more reason to mock him for "being a PAffO" next time we meet  ;D

 

[Rigger]

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/64088.html
Just found this, they went in by helicopter behind the Taliban and flushed them out into the open before calling in an airstrike.

 

[KevinB]

All the more reason to mock him for "being a PAffO" next time we meet   ;D

He made major    Hell must have froze over  ;D

 

[George Wallace]

It would be sad if after '40' years service, he was still a Capt.