Fullbore Friday
...just a bunch of reservists...
You’re the walking wounded.
You’re considered part of the “C-Team.”
You’re a part-timer, a reservist.
Many of those with you are not even in combat arms.
In the rear with the gear, you’re little more than a FOBBIT…at least that is what all of the “best” units and personnel tell you as they headed off to the “more important” front.
Huh.
You are about to face the best of the best; the enemy's elite soldiers. There are five of them for every one of you. Your closest reinforcements are hours away, but you don’t care.
It doesn’t matter. History is about to call you.
This is your land. Your city. Your mission. Your time.
The Hostomel 200. Fullbore
As we are in year three of the Russo-Ukrainian War, we have a lot more time to understand what I wrote about in real time with the 24 FEB 2022 D+0 Quicklook.
The Daily Mail’s “Battle Board” is exceptional. The host, Chris Pleasance, is simply superb.
Few others have presented the Hostomel 200 in context better.
FWIW, this sort of coup de main attack is the bread and butter job for SOF and Air Assault units. If we were doing it, we would have deployed a couple of SF A teams or Delta for a covert move combined with either a heli or airborne low level jump by the Ranger Regt. see Grenada invasion where the 75th jumped on the Point Salinas Airport (with follow-up runway landings of the 82nd C-130s) and the Pearl airport seized by SEALS and the 2/8th USMC by CH-46 , CH-53
PS: there is no such weapon as the ZSU-23-3 from the video. What is shown is the likely ZSU-23-2
Full bore indeed. And thanks for the video link, very well done indeed, I've subscribed.