RE: InterFET

OK, Armour currently is restricted to the Lav 25 APCs and Recon vehicles
you
see. Early on there was a photo of a leopard mine clearer. no gunships;
just
Blackhawks. 

The really interesting initial skirmish was the "ambush" of an
Australian
vehicle/s by some militia. Perhaps it was just the press that called it
an
ambush as only two Aussies were wounded and their counter-ambush drill
was
still effective enough to inflict two kills and force the remainder
(numbers
unknown) to withdraw!

Owen G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Los [mailto:los@cris.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 October 1999 3:21
> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: InterFET
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremy Sadler wrote:
> 
> > How much news about East Timor are people in the US, UK et 
> al seeing?  I'm
> > curious to see how this is viewed in other parts of the globe.
> >
> 
> In the US it's being reported matter of factly. We hear at 
> least a little
> something most every day on the news. I would love to see a 
> bit more footage
> though, particularly of the uniforms and equipment. (Has 
> InterFET deployed
> armor yet? Gunships?)  It's not that big a deal over here 
> since we ourselves
> are deployed all over the world in a bunch of places so 
> people kind of get used
> to it.
> 
> Of course where I live there are a lot of pork-chops 
> (portuguese) so East Timor
> is a big deal, heck they wanted the UN to invade the place 
> regardless of what
> Indonesia says since as you know ET was a Portuguese colony 
> until 1975,(plus I
> believe there are some Portuguese troops on IntertFET.
> 
> >
> > Did any news about the border skirmish between Aussie and 
> Indonesian troops
> > reach the world press?
> 
> Yeah we hear about that on the news over here. Good luck and 
> good job.  Glad to
> see someone else taking charge for once. Looks like the 
> Aussie troops will see
> a little bit more action than usual which translates to some valuable
> experience for the infantry. If you get any pertinent details 
> of tactical
> operations let us know.
> 
> Los
>