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An Afghan boy looks at a British Royal Marine with Lima Company, 42 Commando, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, December of 2009.

Source:  John Scott Rafoss of the United States of America.

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Afghanistan News: अफगानिस्तान में एक बड़ा सड़क हादसा सामने आया है। समाचार एजेंसी एपी के मुताबिक, अफगानिस्तान में हुए सड़क हादसे में 21 लोगों की मौत हो गई और 38 घायल हो गए। हेलमंद प्रांत में स्थित गेराश्क जिले में हुआ हादसा प्रांतीय यातायात विभाग के अनुसार, ये सड़क हादसा दक्षिणी अफगानिस्तान के हेलमंद प्रांत में स्थित गेराश्क जिले में हुआ है। विभाग की ओर से जारी एक बयान में कहा गया है कि दक्षिणी…

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U.S. Marines from Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines Regiment, engage in a shootout with Taliban fighters in Karez-e-Sayyidi on the outskirts of Marjah District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on May 15, 2010.

(Photo by: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)

The Telegraph:

The Princess of Wales is set to hire a war hero who served as Elizabeth II’s equerry as her new private secretary.

Lt Col Tom White, a war hero who helped foil Taliban bomb plot in Helmand, served Elizabeth II until her death.

The Princess, who has been without her own private secretary for more than a year, has invited Lt Col Tom White to join her at a public engagement to see what the job entails at close quarters.

He was spotted at the Princess of Wales’s early years symposium at the Design Museum in London last week, where the Princess delivered a speech.

Lt Col White, has already worked at the centre of the institution, at the late Queen’s side until her death in September last year.

Before that, the Royal Marines officer served in Afghanistan in 2009 as a member of 42 Commando.

As a 22-year-old lieutenant serving as 7 Troop’s commander, he helped avert tragedy in Helmand after the Taliban placed a booby trap bomb in a school. However, wires under the school room door were spotted before detonation.

The rumoured choice of Lt Col White as the Princess’s private secretary would see something of a return to tradition for the household, reflecting the Royal family’s close ties to the military and a link with her late grandmother-in-law.

It is understood that no appointment has yet been made but a source said that Lt Col White was “likely” to be offered the job.

Lt Col White was a loyal equerry to the late Queen and was one of the few people to see her in her final days at Balmoral.

The 36-year-old father would be the first man in the position, in a restructured Kensington Palace office overseen by a yet-to-be-appointed chief executive.

A Kensington Palace spokesman said that they did not comment on staffing matters.

Lt Col White:

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Harrier GR9 aircraft from 1(F) Squadron takes off from Kandahar Airfield, Helmand, Afghanistan.

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BBC Panorama analysed hundreds of pages of SAS operational accounts, including reports covering more than a dozen "kill or capture" raids carried out by one SAS squadron in Helmand in 2010/11.

Individuals who served with the SAS squadron on that deployment told the BBC they witnessed the SAS operatives kill unarmed people during night raids.

They also said they saw the operatives using so-called "drop weapons" - AK-47s planted at a scene to justify the killing of an unarmed person.

Several people who served with special forces said that SAS squadrons were competing with each other to get the most kills, and that the squadron scrutinised by the BBC was trying to achieve a higher body count than the one it had replaced.

The Siege of Tremaine, Part 1

By the 4th year of the Unification Wars, the Imperial Third Fleet had been savagely mauled, first by the Disaster at Koroa, and then the subsequent years of hit and run attacks in support of Imperial efforts in its home region. After near continuous combat operations since the outbreak of the conflict, the Fleet would finally be granted permission to return to its home port for full repairs.

The Igorian domask Fayatan seized on this moment to achieve one of his primary goals of the war: the final humiliation of the celebrated Third Fleet. Gathering the 7 Crusades under his command, Fayatan began planning for his assault on Third Fleet’s headquarters world, Tremaine. To do this, he would need complete surprise, extreme precision, and uncompromisingly overwhelming force, otherwise what was left of the Third, some 63 capital ships all told, would escape to haunt the Igorians still.

The last part of Fayatan’s plan was the easiest to attain. The domask had long enjoyed the support of the Igorian Republic’s Central Committee and especially its Strategic Operations Center, who controlled when and where the various Igorian Crusades were deployed. Giving his word that he would involve the rising star of the SOC, domask Cavamath To-Toroan Eldasil, in the operation, the SOC granted him the support of an additional 8 Crusades. Overwhelming force achieved, next for the domask was surprise. With his forces assembled, he contacted the information broker Naratan Nal’no’Toa, and negotiated for Tremaine’s system-wide security codes. With these, he would be able to disable 3rd Fleet’s early warning system. They would still be in orbital drydock when his crusades descended on them.

Lastly, he focused on precision. For this, he baited the allied Aberinian Ferathtz Clan War Chief Efkus into attacking Tremaine. While Efkus’ paltry forces were obliterated, the Igorian scoutship Vorsus El-Ekth recorded Imperial deployment points, system patrol routes, and which Imperial ships were capable of engaging and which remained moored over Tremaine. Fayatan had his plan.

On April 11th, 2675, Fayatan’s 3rd, 11th, 15th, and 26th Crusades jumped in system, provoking an immediate Imperial response. The superdreadnough IHNV For Whom The Bell Tolls and her battlegroup were the first deployed ships to engage the Igorians, successfully holding the advance force at bay. This was when Fayatan crashed Tremaine’s security network. Almost immediately, multiple Imperial systems, including fleetwide communications, IFF, and fire control were disabled. The Bell and her escorts were defeated in detail, and the Igorians shut down Tremaine’s long range broadcast beacons, isolating it from the Imperial communications system. With their beachhead secured, the 18th, 42nd, and 91st Crusades arrived in system, and began the ground invasion of Cyprii, one of the Tremaine system’s outer planets, and an important fuel depot for the 3rd Fleet. Within days, the token 2011th Legion garrison is annihilated.

The remaining 8 crusades assigned to Fayatan now arrived in system. In less than a week, the Imperials had been forced into a fighting retreat from the system’s edge, surrendering the moons Herodor, Thetii, Asculum, and Suebi, and the colony of Cygnus. By April 19th, they will be forced back to Tremaine itself, with every other world and moon in the system under Igorian control.

High Admiral Oppius Galens will attempt multiple sorties from Tremaine’s orbital ring, but each would be repulsed by the hundreds of Igorian ships in system. Finally, on April 23rd, he gathers what remains of 3rd Fleet’s active combat vessels and punches through the Igorian blockade, officially surrendering control of all space in the Tremaine system. A day later, the ground invasion of Tremaine begins. Left behind to hold the world is Legatus Primus Helmand Oratio Nino and the troops of the 19th Army. The 11th Legio Ferrata Dux, 244th Drop Assault, 91st Stellar Siege Legion, 419th Heavy Marine, and 996th Legio Armageddon, together numbering just over a million Imperial legionaries, will face the full might of the Igorian Army and every single soldier they can bring to bear, and they will do it on their own with no known hope of support. Thus, the Siege of Tremaine has begun.

DM: Veterans Call Out H's HOI Lies by u/Common_Echo6265

DM: Veterans Call Out H's HOI Lies Key excerpts from DM (https://ift.tt/0RwDTbe, https://ift.tt/ZR81hTB Former Royal Marine Ben McBean, 36, lost an arm and a leg to a landmine blast in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2008, aged just 20 and reportedly inspired the Prince's Invictus Games for disabled servicemen.But taking Twitter, Ben hit out at the Prince's claim the UK press had overlooked wounded troops and wrote: 'Still love Harry but again I have to disagree. Not sure what media he's on about but I know the British media did cover veterans for years.'The news comes as other commanders and senior veterans rounded on the prince over his comments, with SAS hero Andy McNab saying: 'To claim media outlets weren’t fighting for our injured servicemen is offensive and rubbish.'Ex-forces commander Lord Richard Dannatt echoed the late Queen, saying: 'Recollections may vary.' The 72-year-old veteran was Chief of the General Staff when Harry served and brokered the news blackout deal which enabled his tour to go ahead.Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, said the prince's constant media sniping of his family was turning servicemen and women against him. 'Unfortunately he has blown most of that away now. A combination of him turning on his own family, the Royal Family, which means such a lot to the armed forces, and his attempt to exploit his own service for his own publicity purposes. We only need to think back about what he said about how he killed so many Taliban members a short while ago in his memoir Spare.... What [Harry] was doing was fighting a very, very remote distance, not the kind of thing in my view that would result in in serious stress and PTSD.' post link: https://ift.tt/qTUfEXL author: Common_Echo6265 submitted: August 31, 2023 at 08:24PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

Kanto. This wasn’t his usual area of business. In fact—he rarely did any cases outside of Johto or Unova. For some reason, though, it was decided that he had to be the one to do this case. A woman with psychic abilities—of course he had heard of Sabrina before; who hadn’t? Apollo couldn’t believe it, really. Out of all of the lawyers they could have asked for…

Why him?

Fingers flickered through pages of the case file that he was able to obtain for this, brown eyes scanning text on paper, a deep sigh leaving his nostrils as brows knitted together in thought. At first it seemed as though there was a lot of information here—but the more he got into it and scanned all of the text, he realized quickly that there wasn’t much here after all.

“Someone disappeared…fifteen years ago? And they think she did it…yeah…that tracks.”

Psyker’s and Espers always seemed to have a bad reputation…There was a reason he kept his ability so subtle, and pretty much under lock and key except for a couple of people he knew he could trust. Though, he was never anything like Sabrina—No, his emotional senses were quite minor in comparison to her abilities

Thank god no one could really notice when he used it.

First thing was first, though. He had to meet the client and get as much information from her as possible in order to plead her case. With another deep breath Apollo nods to himself before walking into the room, sitting down with nothing but a pane of glass separating the two of them.

“Hello, Ms.Natsume. My name is Apollo Justice, and I’m here to represent you in court.” He’s doing his best to be professional—he still seems to get a little nervous, though. He sits, setting his suitcase down next to him so he can sit across from her. Helmand resting on his lap and fingers idly toying with the gold bracelet on his wrist.

“First and foremost, I need to hear your side of the story if I’m going to prove your innocence. The information they gave me was…minimal. What can you tell me?”

// @prestochange | closed starter.

U.S. Marines from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, Lance Corporal Chris Sanderson (rear) and Sergeant Travis Dawson (front) protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in the town of Marjah, in Nad Ali district of Helmand province, February 2010.

(Photo by Goran Tomasevic/REUTERS)