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& where exactly is the news in this?

The Pentagon has confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in the northern Iraqi city of Falluja. "It was used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants," spokesman Lt Col Barry Venable told the BBC.

Of course, comments like this wont stop the finger pointing & salacious accusations from the al-Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation. Please correct me if I am wrong here but if my memory serves me correctly, your humble correspondent recalls whistling up a spot of artillery fire – sometimes using high explosive & oh, sometimes using white phosphorus. Nicknamed in the forces, Willie Peter, it is generally felt by those that have used it to be jolly good stuff – which is why those that have used it know that “Willie Peter makes you a believer” - thus perfect for using on true believers.

& the problem with that is exactly what?

(Footnote - White Phos grenades are even more fun)

Comments

White Phos is a bitch - I'm frightened shitless of it, but if it is to be used (and I strongly advocate its use on THEM (the enemy)), let someone else do the distribution. And I speak as a corporal in the Ex-SA Army.

but as a forward oberservation officer, its the the perfect arrangment - cosy & warm in your OP, brew on the go & you get to drop the naughty stuff on the bad guys heads .... but its down to the 'drop shorts' to handle the delivery

Could I please have my naplam back too??

Latest from the stan. Using alot of 155mm, 105mm, B52s, and A10s on the bad guys. BDA results are coming back positive.

Red Leg Red Leg, this is OP1, Adjust fire Over

nowt wrong with phos. managed to burn the roof and carpets of a mosque in irag with one. Unlike bowman at least it works. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK FELLAS.

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