TLR
31 August 2000, 15:04
In the news today I cut and pasted this little tid bit.
All I have to say is have fun!
U.S. SF BEGIN TRAINING COLOMBIAN TROOPS - U.S. Special Forces have begun training Colombian soldiers at a jungle base as part of a $1.3-billion U.S. aid initiative to help Colombia fight drugs and rebels gets under way. The 83 U.S. military personnel are working with members of a Colombian anti-narcotics battalion at Larandia military base in the Amazon River basin. It is only a two-hour drive from the main stronghold of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The U.S. troops are barred from accompanying Colombian soldiers into combat. Although FARC has declared it will fight the anti-drug offensive, it has not threatened to attack the U.S. soldiers directly. The troops will be flown into the jungle aboard U.S.-donated Blackhawk and Huey helicopters. Their mission: to seize coca plantations so that low-flying planes can spray them with herbicide without being shot down by the FARC.
All I have to say is have fun!
U.S. SF BEGIN TRAINING COLOMBIAN TROOPS - U.S. Special Forces have begun training Colombian soldiers at a jungle base as part of a $1.3-billion U.S. aid initiative to help Colombia fight drugs and rebels gets under way. The 83 U.S. military personnel are working with members of a Colombian anti-narcotics battalion at Larandia military base in the Amazon River basin. It is only a two-hour drive from the main stronghold of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The U.S. troops are barred from accompanying Colombian soldiers into combat. Although FARC has declared it will fight the anti-drug offensive, it has not threatened to attack the U.S. soldiers directly. The troops will be flown into the jungle aboard U.S.-donated Blackhawk and Huey helicopters. Their mission: to seize coca plantations so that low-flying planes can spray them with herbicide without being shot down by the FARC.