https://www.funker530.com/airborne-amphibious-syria/
>A combat operation that legends are made of just occurred under the cover of darkness on March 21-22 as US Special Operations troops and elite Kurdish special forces parachuted deep into deep into ISIS-held ground while other US-backed SDF troops made an amphibious assault that succeeded in retaking the Tabqa Dam from the Islamic State who were caught by surprise.
>Some of the following information is unconfirmed but comes from our trusted sources and will give a more in depth look at what happened beyond the “official” CJTF-OIR statement.
The airborne troops jumped from at least a half dozen rotary-wing aircraft into at least two different drop zones onto a peninsula west of Raqqa near Abu Asi. There are even rumors of a high altitude jump taking place. The Syrian democratic Forces (SDF) have proven to be the top indigenous fighting force in the region, without a doubt. Yet, a very very small population within the ranks of the SDF is airborne qualified, and there were indeed Kurdish troops on the jump. This means that the Kurdish Counter Terror Group (CTG) from northern Iraq was definitely there leading the way. It’s also possible, and even likely, that the CTG’s Syrian counterpart, the Syrian Kurdish Anti-Terror Forces Command (HAT) were also in on the Airborne operation, considering the high echelon of their training. The key strategic ground now held on the Western flank cuts off the main ISIS supply route flowing from Aleppo to Raqqa.
>...The following video shows SDF troops prepping for the amphibious assault as well as the follow-on bridging operations to reinforce and resupply the newly held ground.
What does /k/ make of this?
>>33416228
It makes me hard.
Most of the Kurds are good people. They deserve their own nation to be perfectly honest.
>inb4 900 American Sniper tier fictional retellings of "D-day against ISIS" even though the landing was unopposed
>>33416228
I thought it was a cheeseburger. I'm hungry.
>>33416257
These weren't seals.
>>33416228
Fuck yeah Army green, tired of fucking matines shitting up this board.
>>33416262
that patty looks like thin frozen shit
>>33416253
I agree and this is kinda green berets bread and butter, working with native friendlies
>>33416257
This operation? Not so much.
Kobani? Maybe.
>The airborne troops jumped from at least a half dozen rotary-wing aircraft
>jumping out of helicopters
but why
>>33416277
No the seals would have a book out about it already.
>>33416334
>No suitable DZ
>Fast rope might take too long
Either that or they jumped outta Ospreys.
>>33416334
they're airborne, they have to jump out of something at some point in the mission.
>>33416359
Eh. Airborne is not so much involving helicopters, that's more air assault/airmobile operations. You wouldn't even call a HALO jump, which was ((probably)) done here an airborne op as that is far more complicated.
>>33416334
Are good old fashioned parachute jumps even a thing anymore?
>>33416228
>people actually believe this horseshit
>>33416426
Nah. And if it ever happens in a conventional war it's gon be a slaughter.
>>33416443
Why so?
>you will never jump out of a rotary platform with your Kurd bros to stealthily remove Sunni inbred sentries guarding a dam
Guess I'm a baby back bitch.
>>33416426
10th Mountain, 173rd and some Rangers jumped into northern Iraq during the invasion.
>>33416460
10th Mountain jumps? Never knew.
>>33416446
Modern AA. And Airborne ops by themselves have never turned out too good when opposed by a conventional force with a static defense capability.
>>33416492
Drop pods when?
>>33416228
>The SDF’s Kurdish YPG and Syrian Arab Coalition fighters led by Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC)
>Green Berets
>>33418779
MARSOC led the river crossing but they obv weren't involved with the airborne operations or HALO jump, you blockhead.
>>33419012
Says who? MARSOC is Airborne qualified
>>33419020
>MARSOC is Airborne qualified
Something in my gut tells me it wasn't them, and their name was only mentioned to ensure a continued relevancy.
(the amphibious op was unopposed btw)
>>33416492
Not the whole division, but they have several LRS companies that maintain jump status (including one capable of both HALO and HAHO).
>>33419020
*some* of MARSOC is airborne qualified, and ~80% of them are static-line only.
Iraq should have been partitioned and balkanized back when it fell in 2003. Could've avoided the entire civil war and ISIS. Iraq is an imaginary country made up of local tribes that hate each other.
>>33416228
The Op should already be canned.
>>33416228
>US Special Operations
>The Syrian democratic Forces (SDF)
>the Kurdish Counter Terror Group (CTG)
>the Syrian Kurdish Anti-Terror Forces Command (HAT)
That's a lot of different groups doing one operation together. Sounds like bullshit.
>>33416228
Wait, so you mean ISIS isn't going to blow this dam up and cause a new deluge? Boring. Trump should tell the Green Berets to blow it up anyway. It would get great ratings.
>>33416253
Kurds are uncivilized communists. They mutilate the genitals of their daughters, just like africans. Turks, Persians and Arabs don't do that shit, just Africans and Kurds. Pro Kurd is pleddit tier. Saddam did nothing wrong when he gassed them.
>>33419695
Why?
>>33419737
>They mutilate the genitals of their daughters, just like africans.
Really? I never knew that.
>>33416228
The bigger question is why are we pretending this is some sort of big feat?
Why would you see a US backed operation as some sort of great accomplishment? Against arabs of all people?
Back during the siege of Kobane, Kurds were getting rekt by ISIS until coalition forces saved their asses. I don't give credit to kurds for succeeding while being backed by US forces.
>>33419746
It's almost exclusively an African and Kurdish phenomena. It's practically unheard of among their neighbors. They're also hardcore Marxists, but they're smart enough to play a good PR angle for Americans. I don't buy it, fuck em. I'm glad that entire region is a meat grinder because the people there truly deserve the conditions they live in.
>>33419754
I'm sure there is some political angle here for Trump, what with his "I won't tell you what I'm going to do, but my plans are yuge" talking points, but I'm too tired and insufficiently motivated to figure it out.
>>33419746
He conveniently forgot to mention the outlawing and work they do against FGM though.
>>33419756
>It's almost exclusively an African and Kurdish phenomena
FGM happens in almost every single Muslim majority nation, the only difference is how much mutilation. FGM can go from just knicking the clitoris to full blown labia removal
>>33416253
Kurds are communist shitters. I'd prefer isis over them desu. SAA>ISIS>FSA>Kurds
So who was it? Just Green Berets and MARSOC?
Do you think Rangers or SEALs had any take in this?
>>33419806
ISIS over Kurds, wtf are you smoking?
>>33416253
>Literal communists
>Deserve their own nation
Ok putin
>>33419835
Not communism famalam
>>33419844
You're fighting ghosts of days past. Commies are the good old enemies and quite fucking irrelevant. Islamoterrorists are the current annoying ones. I'd take a commie over an islamofascist every fucking time.
>>33419852
T. Comrade Letstryitonemoretime
Fuck off Lenin
>>33419852
>ghosts of days past
You mean the current communist insurgency toppling a civilization? Again?
I hate you so much
>>33419852
My question is, was it the Obama administration literally paying for a middle eastern communist revolution or was it just commies in the state department?
>>33416334
They didn't.
>>33419844
The 80's called, they want you nutjob to go back to the basement.
Do the Green Berets use something like pic rel?
>>33419844
>>33419838
>the year of the lord MMXVII
>being butthurt about kurdish commies
turkey please go
>>33419878
Obama is part of a muslim cult
Ofc he was supporting this islamist shit
Kurds are fucking commies & islamists, no idea why people support them other than the default "They are minorities therefore lets suck their dicks"
>>33416449
Kurds are primarily Sunni dumbass.
>>33420119
The crazy thing is this could just as easily be a persons genuine thoughts as much as it could be a person pretending to be a window licking paint sniffer
>>33420156
>REKT
>>33416309
i know guys in a fighter squadron that helped turn the tide at Kobani... what are you trying to say here?
>>33419504
Lmao, yeah that was never going to happen. The tribes may hate each other, but they all want each other's oil
>>33420390
Uh, nothing? You could easily misconstrue Kobani as a second Stalingrad and make a movie out of that as opposed to this thing, which is really just an example of a militia force actually showing it is capable of operations (pretty rare event desu).
>>33416353
This
>>33416443
We jumped into Grenada and Panama...both were rapidly executed conventional conflicts
>>33416334
>helicopter hovers 3 feet off the ground
>"""""""""Airborne"""""""""" jump out and complete their ISIS D-Day combat jumps
The whole region is going to implode after the shenanigans with ISIS and Assad are over; the Kurds aren't going to give up the territory they now hold and will try to set up an independent Kurdistan. That's when the Middle East goes apeshit, yet again.
>>33420419
Niether of those countries had an air defense that was worth a shit.
>>33419787
Only the ones with a kurdish minority... I wonder why
>>33420419
Sorry airborne ranger, Panama wasn't in any way an actual threat.
it was an extremely well planned operation though, from what i understand
>>33420430
do they get a badge for that
>>33416253
I'd rather support ISIS than the Kurds.
>>33419844
>confusing communism with socialism
>thinking socialism is inherently bad
>thinking socialism isn't going to be necessary with the rise of artificial intelligence and the coming displacement of advanced job sectors decimating the supply-demand model necessary for a functioning free market capitalist economy
>thinking socialism is inherently worse than backwards bronze-age ideologue goatfuckers and pedos that compete for edgiest edgelord awards despite glaring conflicts within their own dogma
>2017
I hope AI takes your job come Monday.
>>33420714
found the socialist
>>33420684
So you support flooding the west with refugees? God dammit /pol/ is so fucking confused anymore.
>>33420716
No shit? You are the insightful and deductive type, aren't you?
>>33420721
Just don't take the refugees in.
>>33420725
Yeah only leftist are capable of being so condescending and self righteous at the same time
>>33420731
So they can then be collectively upset at the west and make ISIS 2: Electric Boogaloo with a legit axe to grind? Why do you hate America?
>>33416228
>rotary-wing aircraft
I'll never understand this gay urge you can only find in the armed forces and law firms to call something simple by a pompous name.
>>33420740
Don't let them in and if they try anything shoot them
Done
>>33420733
Only a geriatric fuck would still care about trying to prop up our dying late stage capitalist model despite all warning signs.
>>33420731
Kinda hard to do when the bleeding hearts won't have it any other way.
>>33420772
Bern, you lost, let it go.
>>33419737
Go to bed Saddam
>>33420721
>>33420740
the kurds are the same as ISIS idiot
There is nothing special about ISIS, everything they do has scriptural justification
>>33420828
t. retard
>>33419838
>>33419737
There's a difference between the Iraqi Kurds and Turkish Kurds. The Turkish Kurds are the feminist communists; iraqi Kurds are pro democracy.
>>33420873
t. no argument
>>33420898
>you have to make a cited fact based rebuttal to my sperging
>>33420916
t. still nothing
>>33419852
The only good communist is a dead communist.
i think kurds going to get nothing.
>>33420893
The only difference between Iraqi Kurds and Turkish Kurds is the PR tactics they employ. They're fighting for the same thing. They see no distinction between each other.
>>33420942
This, kids, is truth.
>>33420893
All middle easterners are inbred trash
>>33420939
Im not him but you're the one making the argument (Kurds=ISIS), you're the one that needs to come up with some sort of evidence for that claim. Just saying that you somehow won the argument does'nt make you right you know.
>>33421049
t. not even trying
Also I'm not >>33420828
>>33421049
There is no such thing as a good Muslim.
>>33420714
>implying socialism isn't the middle step to communism (even if it never works)
>implying you understand how economy works
Luddite pls, we have gone through industrialization, the complete decimation of the mode of living that was the norm for millenia and we ended up with better living conditions than ever.
>>33421049
It's not that "kurds = ISIS"
It's that muslims are muslims, just because the media tells you one is the good guys, and the other is the bad guys, doesn't mean they aren't all fucking muslims
>>33419746
Keep in mind most Western civilization mutilate the genitals of their sons at the bidding of jews.
>>33422874
Jews do it for religious reasons, but everyone else does it because male circumcision actually has some useful health benefits, like reducing the risk of countless hygiene related diseases to near zero and also reducing the virulence of STDs like AIDS.
Female circumcision does little to reduce the risk vaginal diseases, so it was never adopted in non-religious medicine.
My Green Beret cousin (not memeing) is teaching me to shoot among other things, what's some shit I should ask him? There's a lot he can't talk about.
>>33423392
ask him if you can try a soggy biscuit, its a snake eater delicacy
>>33416228
>Parachuted
Bullshit.
>>33419806
>I'd prefer isis
You're gonna get a bullet in the face as soon as someone finds you.
Anything to do with ISIS is less than human, and therefore not protected by laws or human rights.
>>33419737
>Turks, Persians, and Arabs don't do that shit
>don't
Yeah naw nigger, thats some Muslim basic entry shit. lot of the kurds are commies but there certainly the highlight of the region besides based Assad.
>>33420684
This is why your going to get Droned, you goat fucking pedo worshiper.
>>33416228
Why are US troops conducting operations in a foreign country where they weren't invited?
>>33423623
Shut your filthy communist piehole you filthy Russian. Get rekt real quick
>>33423651
Trump is probably going to be cucked by the neocons and will end up starting another illegal war fighting literal goat herders.
>>33423673
>illegal war
>illegal
>war
I want to punch fucking hippies like you real hard
>>33420119
>Commies & Islamists
Except the YPG and the Pesh for that matter aren't big on the whole dying for Allah thing. Haven't ever heard them Snackbar in their videos.
>>33420684
What the fuck is wrong with you? Did a Kurd rape your mother or something?
>>33420952
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about. The KRG and Rojava do things very, very differently. Hell the Iranian and Turkish branches do things differently as well. Do you know anything about Kurdish politics?
>>33423623
The YPG seemed more than happy to get help, and since Rojava is basically semi-autonomous/autonomous at this point its perfectly feasible to imagine that they were invited in.
>>33420561
>it was an extremely well planned operation though, from what i understand
it was also stylish as fuck
>[muffled Van Halen song plays]
>>33423755
We have a constitution, you insufferable fascist.
Fuck off with your never ending wars bombing people who don't have running water.
>>33416334
>>33420430
>>33420029
>>33416426
you realize parachuting out of helicopters is a thing, right?
>>33420828
>There is nothing special about ISIS, everything they do has scriptural justification
iconoclasm and mass ritual human sacrifice?
>>33423855
It's called Islam, bub.
>>33423371
>but everyone else does it because male circumcision actually has some useful health benefits, like reducing the risk of countless hygiene related diseases to near zero and also reducing the virulence of STDs like AIDS.
jewish lies
circumscision causes dry dick, and bad skin in such a sensitive area makes you more vulnerable to catching diceases due to friction, it's literally only puritan shame culture that makes men afraid of actually cleaning their dicks, balls and asshole that makes them a health problem.
there's literally no point to circumscision unless you want to punish boys for jerking off like monkeys, which is what the asshole responsible for spreading the practice, Kellogg, wanted.