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Post by Bonobo on Nov 11, 2010 1:11:23 GMT 1
A government official from the Foreign Office was caught with strings on his helmet while visiting Polish troops in Afghanistan. The photo, put by the guy on Facebook !!!, caused a little scandal and was judged as "assholish" or, politically correctly, pathetic.   |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 12, 2010 22:17:57 GMT 1
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Post by valpomike on Nov 12, 2010 23:15:23 GMT 1
Anders does not sound Polish to me, why is this, if it is a Polish tank.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 13, 2010 19:10:08 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 28, 2010 20:25:58 GMT 1
A colonel of the Polish army, Adam Bartnicki, developed a personal carrier robot.   |
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Post by pjotr on Nov 28, 2010 21:55:22 GMT 1
A government official from the Foreign Office was caught with strings on his helmet while visiting Polish troops in Afghanistan. The photo, put by the guy on Facebook !!!, caused a little scandal and was judged as "assholish" or, politically correctly, pathetic. I don't see the shocking thing, it looks quite funny! Soldiers humor! It happens in every army I think!  |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 28, 2010 22:12:14 GMT 1
I don't see the shocking thing, it looks quite funny! Soldiers humor! It happens in every army I think! Yes, I would agree with you if the guy had flown to West Germany to observe NATO manouvers or such. However, the guy flew to Afghanistan where Polish soldiers die and get injured every week. And he isn`t even a soldier. Only pretending to be one. Pjotr, I am far from being a wet blanket. Let people have fun. But at the right place and time. |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 19, 2010 0:52:06 GMT 1
Americans are disappointed with poor/insufficient Polish performance in Afghanistan.
It is partly true, say experts, but it is not really the Polish fault. The "Polish" province is too big and Poles are too few to cover it. Besides, soldiers are virtually paralysed to engage into combat because of fear of killing civilians and being prosecuted back in Poland in result (the spectacular case of 8 soldiers who mortar-shelled a village and massacred its inhabitants).
This is mostly due to lack of proper finance. Sad, but Poland is still too poor to be an equal partner to our allies. We can`t send more soldiers because the Polish army isn`t as big as in the past, and we can`t equip them with more advanced armament.
Polish troops in Afghanistan: ‘just hanging around’?
18.12.2010 10:07
Defence Minister Bogdan Klich has slated an article carried in Time magazine, in which anonymous US soldiers serving in Afghanistan describe their Polish compatriots as “just kind of hanging around”, as well as other complaints of the Polish contingent there.
Speaking to the Polish Press Agency, Saturday, Klich said that the “article is scandalous,” defending Polish soldiers in Afghanistan as being “well trained” and who are “brilliantly carrying out their duties.”
However, the article in the American weekly does not paint such a pretty picture of Polish forces, which are part of NATO’s ISAF mission in Afghanistan.
“U.S. officers say the Poles’ top-down approach to war-fighting is ill-suited to a counter-insurgency campaign that requires real-time decision-making by mid- and lower-level officers on the ground. They add that the Poles’ six-month deployments strain continuity, and that logistics snafus make them dependent on U.S. support,” the article in Time reads.
Other comments on Polish troops include complaints that they are not doing enough fighting, although the weekly acknowledges that “if the Polish are passive, that may be in part because a soldier faces the prospect of a civilian trial back home if he mistakenly kills a civilian, even in the heat of combat.”
The statement is a comment on the Nangar Khel killings, in which Polish troops were arrested for allegedly shooting a number of civilians there in 2007.
Meanwhile, Bogdan Klich slams the critique by stating that the Commander of the ISAF forces in Afghanistan, David Petraeus had in fact praised Polish forces there, likewise Major General John Campbell, head of Regional Command East is meant to have commended Polish efforts. “I have never met with critical remarks from them,” Klich said.
Poland’s Defence Minister told the Polish Press Agency that the seventh deployment of Polish soldiers in Ghazni, under the command of General Andrzej Przekwas, was to undertake its mission in Ghazni province in one of the most trying periods of the past few years.
“Since the US battalions arrived in Ghazni we have not heard of any conflicts between Polish and American soldiers. I know this not only from the commanding officers, but also from talks with politicians,” Klich states.
Currently, 2,600 Polish soldiers are serving in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 25, 2011 21:25:28 GMT 1
The coffins of two Poles killed in Afghanistan at the weekend will arrive at Warsaw’s Okecie Airport this afternoon.
The ceremony scheduled for 15.30 CET will take part with full military honours. The coffins will be greeted by military colleagues and family members.
Military policeman Lance Corporal Marcin Pastusiak (26) and civilian paramedic Marcin Knap (34) were killed in Afghanistan on 22 January in Ghazni province after an improvised explosive device detonated when troops were on routine patrol.
Two soldiers were also injured in the attack although their lives are not in danger.
Twenty three Polish soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan where 2,600 troops are stationed as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The number of foreign troops already killed this year has now risen to 27.
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Post by valpomike on Jan 26, 2011 18:33:11 GMT 1
This is the cost of war, that brings freedom for all, some day. We will pray for them.
Mike
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Post by uncltim on Jan 27, 2011 13:47:08 GMT 1
I am saddened to hear of the deaths of both of these soldiers. I currently have two nephews serving actively. One is an MP in the Army, and the other is in the field medical service(FMS) with the Navy, same MOS as these two. The cost of bringing any real change to a perpetually troubled area is high. The cost of doing nothing is even higher as the last 40 years have proven. I hope the families of the deceased take some comfort in knowing that.
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 12, 2011 20:32:27 GMT 1
Females make up only two percent of armed forces
09.03.2011 12:51
Only two percent of Poland’s armed forces are female – the smallest number in all NATO countries, it has been revealed.
Just over 2,000 females serve in Poland’s armed forces with only 200 women joining in 2010 – nearly fifty percent less than joined in the previous year.
Defense Ministry spokesperson, Commander Bozena Szubinska, announced the data Tuesday, saying that there are 1750 active females in the army and the rest are in training.
The majority of females serve in the military (800), with about 350 females serving in the Air Force and about 170 women in Poland’s navy.
“Still, we have the fewest females serving as compared to all NATO countries,” added Commander Szubinska, who attributes the decreasing enrollment rates to the process of professionalizing the army and lower overall recruitment figures.
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Post by valpomike on Mar 13, 2011 1:07:41 GMT 1
Let them stay home, and help make the men happy. And they can do this well.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 1, 2011 19:27:53 GMT 1
Seven Polish soldiers acquitted in Nangar Khel trial
01.06.2011
Seven Polish soldiers accused of war crimes in the Afghan village of Nangar Khel in August 2007 have been acquitted by a court in Warsaw due to “lack of evidence”.
The Circuit Military Court decided there was not enough evidence to sentence the soldiers and their commander.
Prosecutors had demanded between 5 and 12 years imprisonment for the men.
Six commandos serving in the 18th Stormtrooper Battalion from Biesko-Biala had been charged with manslaughter, with a seventh accused of “opening fire at an undefended object”.
The attack on what was actually a wedding party resulted in the deaths of six civilians, including a pregnant woman and three children, and seriously injured three other women.
The judge said today in his ruling that the court did not have access to proper documentation and was not able to establish precisely from where the shots had been fired, or the precise placement of witnesses.
The case had set a precedent in the history of the Polish armed forces, said Judge Colonel Miroslaw Jaroszewski.
The sentence can be appealed by prosecutors.
Hague Convention
The trial began on 2 February 2009, and is the first such case in the history of the Polish Army where soldiers have been accused of breaking the Hague Convention and the killing of civilians as a result of war activity.
During the final hearings in the case last week, Prosecutor Colonel Jakub Mytych judged the accused as guilty in the charges brought against them, and that the soldiers broke both the Geneva and Hague conventions, as well as Polish law.
“Stating that [the soldiers] were aiming at another target is merely a line of defence,” Colonel Mytych said.
On 16 August 2007, Polish military vehicles came under fire in the village of Nangar Khel, located in the Paktika province of Afghanistan.
In July last year, Wikileaks released documents on the incident with one confidential document declaring that, “[The Polish soldiers] fired a total of 26 rounds according to one report. They fired over and then short and then three rounds impacted within a compound. One impacted on the roof of the house, one impacted in the court yard, and the last went through the roof and detonated within the house. There was a wedding celebration going on in the house, which explains the high number of casualties.”
‘Fatal error’
During the case, Defence Minister Bogdan Klich stood by the accused soldiers, stating that they had performed a “fatal error” and as such should be judged as not guilty.
Klich made his point known back in December 2007 after meeting with US Army Colonel Martin Schuitzer, who was the Commanding Officer of Polish troops in Afghanistan at the time.
Colonel Schuitzer then conceded that American soldiers perform similar errors a few times a month, and that the Poles’ ‘accident’ in Nangar Khel was the first such incident to have taken place. (ek/jb/pg)  
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 8, 2022 19:38:11 GMT 1
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Post by Petal on Jan 14, 2022 9:52:38 GMT 1
Huge data leak from the Polish military about what the Polish army owns - from underwear to tanks:
wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/gigantyczny-wyciek-danych-z-wojska-ponad-17-mln-pozycji-w-internecie/1mknjtf
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 18, 2022 18:49:00 GMT 1
Huge data leak from the Polish military about what the Polish army owns - from underwear to tanks: wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/gigantyczny-wyciek-danych-z-wojska-ponad-17-mln-pozycji-w-internecie/1mknjtf Such fragile data leaks are a norm in Poland under rightist PiS. They got rid of old intelligence and counterintelligence services claiming they were infiltrated by communists. But they didn`t create anything professional and efficient instead. Therefore, like one general said, we are read by Russians like a book. Rightists are maniacs who are only able to destroy, not create. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 27, 2022 21:20:31 GMT 1
A film about Polish army 24 hour ration, made by a popular ration tester. According to her comments, it is one of the most complete and most delicious rations she has ever tested. Funny film.
Another film showing the military and police guarding the Eastern border against illegal migrants brought there by the Belarussian regime.
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