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Home » Afghan Update » “Hell’s Angels: Lithuanian Style”

“Hell’s Angels: Lithuanian Style”

Speaking of Afghanistan — here’s a phe­nom­e­nal report from my friend Michael Yon. Seems that the Lithuanians are insti­tut­ing their own unique form of Eastern European badassery out in the Zabul Province…
Lithuanian death bikes.jpg

Zabul Province give high marks to the Lithuanian Special Forces, who like to ride these cap­tured Taliban motor­bikes to sneak up on, and chase Taliban fight­ers. The LithSof are on their way to becom­ing liv­ing leg­ends: Both Afghans and Americans report that the Taliban are afraid of the Lithuanians. Stories about them are filled with dan­ger­ous escapades and humor.
Americans say that the Lithuanians are sort of a weaponized ver­sion of Borat, who think noth­ing of saun­ter­ing around a base in noth­ing but flip-​​flops and under­wear. They look like moun­tain men. They never shave, some­times dont bathe, and often roll out the gate wear­ing noth­ing but body armor and weapons. Not even a t-​​shirt, an American sol­dier told me. The Lithuanians may be a lit­tle bit nuts, but the Americans love to have them around because Lithuanians love to fight, and when you need backup, you can count on them. That con­trasts starkly with many of the NATO part­ners. Maybe when your coun­try spends almost a half-​​century with the Soviet boot on its neck, its first gen­er­a­tion of free sol­diers know what free­dom is worth and that you some­times have to fight for it.

–John Noonan

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  1. freedomisnot4free says:
    December 17, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    Glorious soilder’s of the great nation of Lithuaniana love to make a sexy time with tal­iban terrorist’s mothers,daughters and wifes.
    LOL Its good to hear that at least some of our allies are truly bring­ing the fight to the enemy.

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  2. Vstress says:
    December 17, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Something to point out, since my fam­ily roots are Latvian (neigh­bour­ing coun­try to Lithuania), is that these coun­tries (the baltic coun­tries) have gen­er­ally never fought their own wars, but have always fought incre­di­a­bly well in other peo­ples wars.
    An exam­ple is that those mem­bers of the (con­scripted) SS units in east­ern europe… where the baltic coun­tries were the few con­scripted SS units that always did fight well, instead of the rest of them.

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  3. Mark Polites says:
    December 17, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Does my Lithuanian heart proud. Actually I am only half Lithuanian. My fam­ily refers to it as being “Half Lit”.
    GO TEAM!

    Reply
  4. tontochoc says:
    December 17, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    Mad Max comes to Afghanistan

    Reply
  5. Brian says:
    December 17, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    “Very nice… how much?”

    Reply
  6. Wembley says:
    December 17, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Great stereo­typ­ing, not sure what the Lithuanians would think of it.
    Of course they’re old hands at this…except last time they were in this part of the world they were wear­ing Red Army uni­forms, Ironic, no?

    Reply
  7. Ptsfp says:
    December 17, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    That is just too cool. God bless them. My brother just got back from Afghanistan and he was less than impressed by the “help” of some of the “big” name NATO nations.
    He said many just sat in their bases and took up space…

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  8. Sam says:
    December 17, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    I’m of Polish/​Lithuanian descent myself. Nice to see this report. I trust the Poles have acquited them­selves well too. Both are good allies of America now.

    Reply
  9. Alexander says:
    December 17, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    On bikes? Just amazing.

    Reply
  10. kert says:
    December 18, 2008 at 1:29 am

    “these coun­tries (the baltic coun­tries) have gen­er­ally never fought their own wars“
    Um, as an Estonian i can say yes we have fought and won our own wars. 1918–1920 against Soviets for instance, which got us our first free­dom period after cen­turies.
    Go lithua­ni­ans btw, my GF is part lithuan­ian ;)

    Reply
  11. Thomas L. Nielsen says:
    December 18, 2008 at 3:20 am

    It rather reminds me of the way I once had the Gurkha described (by a — non-​​Gurkha — mem­ber of the British armed forces): Act nuts! Make sure a lot of bad-​​a** sto­ries about you are in cir­cu­la­tion. Because if your enemy is scared sh*tless of you, then you’ve won at least half the bat­tle.
    What was it Sun Tsu said: Make sure you’ve won before the actual fight­ing starts, or words to that effect ?
    Keep up the good work :-)
    Thomas L. Nielsen
    Denmark

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  12. dave says:
    December 18, 2008 at 3:45 am

    If you think this has any­thing to do with Borat, your geog­ra­phy is as f*cked as Iraq. And I sec­ond the note that the SS were quite fond of their lit­tle Baltic bud­dies in the ‘40s, too.

    Reply
  13. Paul D says:
    December 18, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Hey, dont rag on the Aussies to much. The guys want action. Just our gov does not.

    Reply
  14. canucklehed says:
    December 18, 2008 at 6:49 am

    on kind of an oppo­site note when I was in a-​​stan what always impressed me about the roman­ian guys was how they could defuze a sit­u­a­tion. they would way rather hand out smokes and drink tea with locals than fight (me too if all I had was a btr.) don’t know how many tal­iban they killed but they didn’t make any new ones.

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  15. Wiccanwolf says:
    December 18, 2008 at 9:30 am

    Well I can say the Lithuanians have a his­tory of being fight­ers. Yes at one time they were taken over by the Sweedes, then the Poles, but they always have fought bravely. Remember tht even thought they were under the heel of the Soviets, they were treated a bit bet­ter than other “states” because the Soviets knew they were fight­ers.
    Now since they are giv­ing the Taliban sheer night­mares all I have to say is “Make them fear their prayer rugs!”.

    Reply
  16. dbnodurf says:
    December 18, 2008 at 9:31 am

    part lithuan­ian? which part

    Reply
  17. stephen russell says:
    December 18, 2008 at 9:45 am

    Radical, send some to the US Mex bor­der.
    More PR on these LitSof guys.
    Neat.
    I can see a movie from this?
    TV show?
    Graphic novel.
    Have some come to US?

    Reply
  18. Justin says:
    December 18, 2008 at 10:18 am

    “weaponized ver­sion of Borat“
    great­est dis­crp­tion ever.

    Reply
  19. marinegold says:
    December 18, 2008 at 11:00 am

    Being a full blooded Lithuanian and for­mer Marine I can believe they are the way they are, keep up the good work fel­low patri­ots, god bless and “Semper Fi”.

    Reply
  20. 99th_BW says:
    December 18, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    My wife is Lithuanian; I can vouch!

    Reply
  21. Vstress says:
    December 19, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Kert… please read the state­ment you just quoted “these coun­tries (the baltic coun­tries) have gen­er­ally never fought their own wars“
    The word “gen­er­ally” comes from the word “gen­eral”, which is an adjec­tive — I quote the oxford dic­tio­nary (http://​www​.askox​ford​.com/​c​o​n​c​i​s​e​_​o​e​d​/​g​e​n​e​r​a​l​?​v​i​e​w​=uk)
    “adjec­tive 1 affect­ing or con­cern­ing all or most peo­ple or things; not spe­cial­ized or lim­ited. 2 involv­ing only the main fea­tures or ele­ments and dis­re­gard­ing excep­tions; over­all. 3 chief or prin­ci­pal: the gen­eral manager.”

    Reply
  22. kondor says:
    December 19, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Look up the bat­tle of Tannenberg in which the Lithuanians beat the crap out of the Teutonic Knights.
    Not a sur­prise to some of us…

    Reply
  23. nata says:
    December 20, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    For all writ­ers about wars of Lithuania -
    This is not truth; Lithuania had very long wars and won many of them. Please do not write at list if you dont know his­tor­i­cal facts.

    Reply
  24. rico says:
    December 20, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    Lithuanian spa­cial forces do kick butt. very lit­tle high tech used dur­ing mis­sions its all about com­mon sense and back to basics and believe me , the results are and have been the best. hoooaaaah­hhh. been there with them done that. never take free­dom for granted like the major­ity of us amer­i­cans do. It can be taken away in a heartbeat

    Reply
  25. Beargain MacErick says:
    December 22, 2008 at 11:21 am

    I did not know that illit­er­acy ran so ram­pant dur­ing the Viet Nam war as it seems

    Reply
  26. JOSEPH I. S. says:
    December 22, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    LITHUANIANS ARE REALY ESTONIANS ON STEROIDS! THEIR FEABLE MINDS ARE FURTHER AMPLIFIED BY A LACK OF EDUCATION AND,THEIR PHYSIQUE IS VERY WELL SUITED FOR PLOWING FIELDS​.IT IS EVEDENT THAT THE COMBINATION OF ANABOLIC STEROIDS AND LIMITED BRAIN CAPACITY RESULTS IN DELUSIONS OF GRANDURE!IF YOU LOOK BACK TO HISTORY THE LITHUANIANS HAVE BEEN TRAITORS SINCE KING MINDIGAUS WHO SOLD OUT TO POLAND​.IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY TO AID NAZI GERMANY IN THEIR ETHNIC CLEANSING ATTEMPTS BY FROMING THE GREEN BROTHERHOOD.AFTER REALIZING THE QUICK DEMISE OF THEIR ASPIRATIONS, THEY QUICKLY SURRENDERED THEIR INSIGNIFICANT PLOT OF LAND TO THE RED FORCES OF THE SOVIET ARMY.THEY MARCHED UNDER THE SOVIET FLAG FOR THE REMAINDER OF THAT CENTURY. AFTER THE BREAK UP OF THE SOVIET UNION, MASSES OF LITHUANIAN CRIMINALS FLED WEST YOU CAN NOW SEE MANY OF THEM WORKING IN CONSTRUCTION IN MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS LIKE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK!

    Reply
  27. JOSEPH I. S. says:
    December 22, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    LITHUANIANS ARE REALY ESTONIANS ON STEROIDS! THEIR FEABLE MINDS ARE FURTHER AMPLIFIED BY A LACK OF EDUCATION AND,THEIR PHYSIQUE IS VERY WELL SUITED FOR PLOWING FIELDS​.IT IS EVEDENT THAT THE COMBINATION OF ANABOLIC STEROIDS AND LIMITED BRAIN CAPACITY RESULTS IN DELUSIONS OF GRANDURE!IF YOU LOOK BACK TO HISTORY THE LITHUANIANS HAVE BEEN TRAITORS SINCE KING MINDIGAUS WHO SOLD OUT TO POLAND​.IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY TO AID NAZI GERMANY IN THEIR ETHNIC CLEANSING ATTEMPTS BY FROMING THE GREEN BROTHERHOOD.AFTER REALIZING THE QUICK DEMISE OF THEIR ASPIRATIONS, THEY QUICKLY SURRENDERED THEIR INSIGNIFICANT PLOT OF LAND TO THE RED FORCES OF THE SOVIET ARMY.THEY MARCHED UNDER THE SOVIET FLAG FOR THE REMAINDER OF THAT CENTURY. AFTER THE BREAK UP OF THE SOVIET UNION, MASSES OF LITHUANIAN CRIMINALS FLED WEST YOU CAN NOW SEE MANY OF THEM WORKING IN CONSTRUCTION IN MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS LIKE CHICAGO AND NEW YORK!

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  28. Vladimir I L says:
    December 22, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Remember that if it was not for the glo­ri­ous train­ing by Soviet Army, Lithuania would have noth­ing but a sec­ond tier bas­ket­ball team. It was a wise deci­sion for the Lithuanians to embrace warm friend­ship of their big­ger and smarter big Russian brother. They would be stock being a small province of Germany or Poland right now which would be some sort of ben­e­fit as well. Instead, they are kind of free coun­try with some sort of “free” econ­omy, gigan­tic default and eco­nomic cri­sis. Hej, did I men­tion their sol­diers are good?

    Reply
  29. Donatas U says:
    December 22, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    I have to say that 2 gen­tle­men before my com­ment are absolutely cor­rect. I am from Lithuania and I know it first­hand. The are right.

    Reply
  30. Odysseus Rex says:
    December 22, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    ANY ass-​​kicking troops in Afghanistan is a GOOD thing. There are ENOUGH “coali­tion” wee­nies clut­ter­ing up the base camps around Kabul, sup­pos­edly “advis­ing” Afghans…about NATO logis­tics and per­son­nel sys­tems, and stuff totally alien to these “FOURTH WORLD” Afghans. IF NATO AND OTHER “COALITION” ALLIES WANT A PIECE OF AFGHANISTAN, send TRIGGER PULLERS, NOT more damn REMFs!!!

    Reply
  31. Donatas U says:
    December 22, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    this is Donatas again. Did I men­tion that those 2 guys were right?

    Reply
  32. Alvidas Mozhaikis says:
    December 22, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Alvidas here.
    Donatas is right being right about those two guys

    Reply
  33. Kestas says:
    December 22, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Kestas here.
    Alvydas & Donatas, those two com­ments were meant for you. If you admit that you are such like described by them, then fine! Good for you :) But don’t iclude me and other nor­mal lithua­ni­ans, ok?

    Reply
  34. Falling_brick_blues says:
    May 3, 2009 at 6:36 am

    Lithuanians aren’t all nuts, but their way of think­ing might make oth­ers think of them as such. Contrary to what Mr. Parody-​​of-​​Lenin (and the two exten­sions of his name: Donatas and Alvydas) said Lithuanians never “wel­comed” the sovi­ets and never “embraced” their doc­trine. It’s both strange and funny to read the words “Glorious Red Army train­ing” know­ing that the soviet union glo­ri­ously fell apart on it’s own. The same “Red Army” train­ing did noth­ing to enhance the fight­ing spirit and men­tal­ity of the Lithuanians, except maybe harden them in bat­tle, since our par­ti­sans fought soviet occu­pa­tion for six more years (15000 farm­ers in camo against the might of the soviet army… what are the odds?). Needless to say, LithSOF are quite well trained in asym­met­ric war­fare, so kudos to our big smart soviet broth­ers, for train­ing us so thor­oughly.
    And about Lithuanians who par­tic­i­pated in the nazi holo­caust — there have always been crim­i­nals and mur­der­ers, in every coun­try. Lithuania is no excep­tion.
    The soviet regime turned Lithuanians into a dis­trust­ful and narrow-​​minded folk. That is true. But if they are directed to a right path and pushed for­ward with enough force — you can’t stop them.
    Thank you for your time and luck in life,
    FBB

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