>News Limited papers reported that Dutch pilots refused to drop below their "safe" height of 5000m to rescue Australian SAS and US forces caught in an ambush in September 2008.
Former SAS sniper Rob Maylor, wounded during the battle, said the Australians had pleaded with the Dutch: "We're in an absolute doozy of a shitfight. We need your assistance as we're taking casualties."
But the Dutch helicopter pilots refused to offer covering fire for the Australian, US and Afghan troops in the ambush. A US soldier was killed and seven SAS soldiers and two sappers were wounded. Trooper Mark Donaldson was awarded the Victoria Cross for his role in the battle.
The role of the Dutch in the battle has been described by Maylor in his book SAS Sniper to be released next week. He writes that during the battle the Australians saw two Dutch Apache helicopters escorting a Chinook and radioed the pilots to fire their Hellfire laser-guided missiles and 30mm cannons on the Taliban.
But the Dutch pilots refused to drop below 5000m, despite the Apaches being capable of operating at low levels under heavy fire.
"They wouldn't open up on the Taliban for fear they might draw some fire themselves," Maylor said.
In the end the soldier on the ground responsible for guiding air support told the Dutch: "If you're not going to engage then you might as well f . . k off." And they did, Maylor writes.
>former operator talking bullshit
time for another seal team six accident?
Inbred wooden shoe wearing retards detected.
What a fun pic, just a few happy lads drinking and chilling, with nothing to worry about :^)
Good. Eat shit for Sebrenica (international community) and shitposting in comfy PrepHole threads (aussies).
Sadly it all sounds like bs since I've never seen an Apache flying higher then 500m. Fucking Harley fagsnof the sky ruining my peace and quiet.
The d*tch are a bunch of monumental fags. Manage to combine the arrogance of the brits with the autism of the krauts.
>Bong Arrogance
Seethinf
>German Autism
Double seething
Trying to sow discord here, pidorashka?
You will never be a real woman elliot.
What's with kacaps and trannies anyway? They're completely infatuated.
And that easily OP outs himself as dennis or boris.
The many ways in which the Dutch pissed off Australians in A-tan.
Most heinous of course being spam salad for dinner.
>In the end the soldier on the ground responsible for guiding air support told the Dutch: "If you're not going to engage then you might as well f . . k off." And they did, Maylor writes.
lol
Based
Don't want to be there, just keeping up appearances
Taliban didn't send enough troops to ensure the other SAS get killed
Dutch women are extremely fearless and capable of anything.
Good to hear that agent Хoлaндијa is still doing their mission, truly the most valuable unit of the army of republika srpska
It was all for nothing and we lost to goat herders anyway. Good on the Dutch in this case.
>News Limited papers reported that Dutch pilots refused to drop below their "safe" height of 5000m to rescue Australian SAS and US forces caught in an ambush in September 2008.
Based
didn't something similar happen with the D*tch and a bunch of serbs? why are they like this?
No in that case the dutch forces requested air support from America and was denied because it was a UN mandate mission.
They were denied air support because they didn't fight and so were taken hostage. The Dutch would not have needed air support if they did their fucking jobs instead of hiding. Nordbat 2 basically proves that Dutchbat incompetence and cowardicd was entirely to blame for Srebenica.The multitude of damning stories from US and Australian forces in Afghanistan just proves that the Dutch never reformed, probably because they can't.
(Nordbat 2 for newfags who don't know why it's a cult phenomenon much beloved by PrepHole: https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/9/20/trigger-happy-autonomous-and-disobedient-nordbat-2-and-mission-command-in-bosnia)
>We're in an absolute doozy of a shitfight.
>If you're not going to engage then you might as well f . . k off.
Yeah definitely aussie
dutch are drug taking gays, most drugs move through dutch in europe
>ooh look at me we can take drugs like shrooms and other shit while banging whores in red light district
fucking wood shoes wearing gays
>"If you're not going to engage then you might as well f . . k off."
>And they did, Maylor writes
kek, the dutch have been cunts in war since the napoleonic times. I'm genuinely surprised nobody has done us the favor of completely knocking them out of the game yet.
The kind of veteran who shit talks coalition forces isn't worth listening to. Escort chpppers had their own mission and couldn't just engage ground targets on a whim, ground forces not being able to accurately designate their own targets might have been a strong factor as well.
An apache could have accidentally wiped out an entire friendly unit
What the fuck are you talking about? Retasking birds for TIC was standard in Afghanistan. The fucking Dutch were operating from the same base as the Australians, had the same TOC and had the same set of uniform control measures. Throwing the extra cope that an SF JTAC couldn't adequately put a bird on target is the icing on the cake, since Holland has zero people who have been through the JTAC program, do not have any program for forward terminal attack control that even approaches the level of JTAC and have a long history of being absolutely fucking useless when it comes to doing their job (ie fighting) on operations.
A US AWT would have dropped everything for the TIC. Why? Because that was the ISAF priority of fires - right at the top in bold "TIC with casualties" - and unlike the Dutch, Americans are willing to fight on operations. TIC with casualties was a fucking drop everything for any air tasking purposes.
Fuck off neverserved. The Dutch were fucking awful to work with. They were so averse to doing their job that they created informal truces with the Taliban, where the Dutch ceded control of large swathes of Uruzgan to them to avoid patrolling and ending up in a fight; the Taliban reciprocated. It wasn't until the Dutch relinquished command of the region that patrols to reestablish ISAF and government control over the areas recommenced, and faced stiff resistance because of the years of shelter the Dutch had afforded the Taliban.
Many people were wounded and died because of the incredible incompetence and cowardice of the Dutch in both Uruzgan and Srebrenica.
>fail so hard your high end troops lose to goat herders
>no back up plan
>all you can do is making desperate requests to combat units assigend to a different role
>mad when they dont join you in your self imposed turmoil
maybe plan accordingly next time
What kind of a gunship operator wouldn't want to fire his weapons. No excuses for this gay retardation.
>Modern Dutch army
>Competent, well-prepared, with equipment that is actually useful
Pick one.
t. Clog
Jesus Chirst, I honestly thought the shame from Srebrenica would put some backbone into these gays.
Unbelievable cowardice.