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Someone mentioned blah-thing about #brazil military, re: the #bozonazi minions in uniform getting shafted along him.

Random, but I recalled talking to a buddy, during a visit to Br. Said buddy was (still is?) in uniform, there. He mentioned that, during Brazil's tenancy of the #UNPROFOR in #Haiti ( #MINUSTAH ) , mid 2000s, they had to deal with actual tactical situations, which was an eye opener for them.

For context, for non-br peeps. The #brazilian military is large, but fairly underfunded (this is a charitable description), and given the "neutrality" ( eyes roll to infinite ) OFFICIAL political stance from Br, most of their missions are intra-borders, or border protection, and filling him for the lack of a government disaster relief apparatus. They barely, seldom see any combat that is not some pack of douchebag remainders of some sendero-like movement breaking through the Amazon border, etc.

ANYHOOS. There was this LTC (equivalent rank) in the Br Fuzileiros Navais (Marines) who was assigned a sector near Port-au-Prince IIRC, around Camp Jean. As they were guadring a venue to the camp, a gang of Haitian thugs decided to engage. Mind you, this is favela/slum groups, with foraged firearms, including revolvers and other such non-military firearms.

Now, if you have a handful of absolute baseline guys with assault rifles, you should be able to wipe the floor with such a ratag outfit of dumbfucks.

The event became a melee, firefight, and has become a REFERENCE for tactical ops in br military. Said LTC NEVER failed to bring it up, most of the time of his briefings , whatever the subject, dragged with a painfully extended account of his heroic deeds in Haiti, against douches in sandals and five-shooters.

Someone else, also in uniform br mil, who was chatting with us mentioned that, and knowing I was US Army, asked what I thought of that. I had the impression they were kinda star struck by someone who had seen "combat". I nodded, quipped "A dozen guys in sandals, packing old civ weapons, firing at soldiers? In the US Army, deployed, we call that Tuesday", then I finished my teeth-cracking-cold chopp pilsen tulip glass, non-chalantly.

In the audience, my buddy was rolling in his chair, the other guy was less impressed. I understand the anecdote made it to the ears of that (in)famous LTC.

It's always fun to keep douches in check, cut them to size.

/random

Someone mentioned blah-thing about #brazil military, re: the #bozonazi minions in uniform getting shafted along him.

Random, but I recalled talking to a buddy, during a visit to Br. Said buddy was (still is?) in uniform, there. He mentioned that, during Brazil's tenancy of the #UNPROFOR in #Haiti ( #MINUSTAH ) , mid 2000s, they had to deal with actual tactical situations, which was an eye opener for them.

For context, for non-br peeps. The #brazilian military is large, but fairly underfunded (this is a charitable description), and given the "neutrality" ( eyes roll to infinite ) OFFICIAL political stance from Br, most of their missions are intra-borders, or border protection, and filling him for the lack of a government disaster relief apparatus. They barely, seldom see any combat that is not some pack of douchebag remainders of some sendero-like movement breaking through the Amazon border, etc.

ANYHOOS. There was this LTC (equivalent rank) in the Br Fuzileiros Navais (Marines) who was assigned a sector near Port-au-Prince IIRC, around Camp Jean. As they were guadring a venue to the camp, a gang of Haitian thugs decided to engage. Mind you, this is favela/slum groups, with foraged firearms, including revolvers and other such non-military firearms.

Now, if you have a handful of absolute baseline guys with assault rifles, you should be able to wipe the floor with such a ratag outfit of dumbfucks.

The event became a melee, firefight, and has become a REFERENCE for tactical ops in br military. Said LTC NEVER failed to bring it up, most of the time of his briefings , whatever the subject, dragged with a painfully extended account of his heroic deeds in Haiti, against douches in sandals and five-shooters.

Someone else, also in uniform br mil, who was chatting with us mentioned that, and knowing I was US Army, asked what I thought of that. I had the impression they were kinda star struck by someone who had seen "combat". I nodded, quipped "A dozen guys in sandals, packing old civ weapons, firing at soldiers? In the US Army, deployed, we call that Tuesday", then I finished my teeth-cracking-cold chopp pilsen tulip glass, non-chalantly.

In the audience, my buddy was rolling in his chair, the other guy was less impressed. I understand the anecdote made it to the ears of that (in)famous LTC.

It's always fun to keep douches in check, cut them to size.

/random

@garius best wishes for a speedy recovery and a great weekend! Military units have a history of adopting animals and Norwegian ones is no exceptions. We even adopted a poisonous horned wiper during the Balkan wars, just because we were told before deployment that there was no poisonous snakes there and this one of course found its way into our makeshift camp... #unprofor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipera_ammodytes For those who have further questions on Nils Olav, there is of course another wikipedia page 😂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav