Paratroopers to Iraq
The Army Times reports that about 250 paratroopers from the 1/505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82d Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq for “security operations”;
They will deploy for nine months to the Central Command area of responsibility to conduct security operations.
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The soldiers are not part of the 1,500-troop increase authorized Nov. 7 by President Obama.
The article says that they’ll be deploying in late December. So, I guess my prediction of a brigade from the 82d deploying to Iraq by Christmas was more than a little off – 250 troops is barely more than two companies.
Category: Terror War
In my younger days I breached for 2/505 PIR Under LTC Austin. A damn fine leader. He has been promoted a few times since then. I feel so old.
Jonn, It’s only December First. They may try and slip them in a company or battallion at a time without a whole lot of fanfair. If 2 companies are going you now the rest of the Brigade is on standby
Here’s hoping…we want enough guys to cover each others’ backs as shit goes to shit…
….and in the other part of the Army, due to there not being any wars to fight, the drawdown is still rolling along.
At least let them drop into southern Iraq somewhere close enough to get a combat jump out of it! After all, it is “Inherent Resolve” a declared action/operation of destruction against ISIS. Not to be included in the 1500 increase announced…I think that’s called “mission creep”…again. Good luck and God bless troopers. The “security operations” will probably entail securing Iraqis from the “weapons free, hard to find, Iraqi Army members” and reteaching them…again, how to field disassemble, clean and reassemble the upper/lower receivers of their M-4s or M-16s. They forget easy ya know. Army life in theater is hard…it’s harder when your “allies” are stupid and cowards. Remember, at the end of our formations they shout, “Platoon…Fall Out!” In the Iraqi Army they shout, “Platoon…Surrender…I meant Fall Out, Yea That’s Right…Fall Out! (Until the Americans aren’t watching us anyway.)
“Mission creep,” anyone?
Hey I got an idea. Why don’t they just tell the world how many are going, what their capabilities are, what the hell provide the local security diagram online. WTF is wrong with these people. This kind of bullshit just puts people in more harms way than necessary. If they cant shut the fuck up don’t send anyone.
I consider myself fairly intelligent but I have yet to figure out what the plan or end state is supposed to be. The emperor truly has no clothes.
There is no plan.
Well, we aren’t talking about ebola any more, the noise and destruction in Ferguson have quieted down, and the internet being hacked doesn’t seem to be stirring any controversy, so why not give us something to distract us from reality?
Seems to me if paratroopers are sent there, something’s building, but what?
Oh, did you guys know that one of Hitler’s nastier beasts of prey spent the remainder of his vile life in Syria, teaching Hassad the Hitlerian methods of torture?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eichmanns-best-man-lived-and-died-in-syria/ar-BBgcJjf
There’s a link to the Atlantic article embedded in the MSN story.
Oh, there’s another thing: the Saudis have said publicly that they’re comfortable with a much lower price of crude oil. This current drop in price may continue, and if it does, their oil minister has already said they will sell into the drop.
It sounds great, doesn’t it? Lower gas prices are appearing at the gas pumps already, and going lower. But this move is to undercut the competition from US oil shale production, which has dropped to $67++, and may go lower still. And they’re losing money to ISIL’s stolen oil production, which goes on despite being bombed.
Can you say ‘oil wars’ and not wince?
Things are going to be dicey for a while, then it will settle out to something more ‘normal’… whatever THAT is.
I saw that story on the dead nazi. Good fucking riddance. May that sack of shit find himself in one of the really horrific Chinese versions of hell that they talked about in “Big Trouble In Little China.” Somehow, even the fate of the ex-SS prick in that old “Twilight Zone” episode doesn’t seem nearly harsh enough for the cocksucker. Fuck him, fuck his family, fuck his hometown, and fuck Syria.
I saw that this morning too.
So I put up a post on Biker or Not.com about it as bait for the antisemite moron over there.
She calls me a Jooooo !!!
Well, considering how many of them are great warriors I consider that a compliment !!!
But, my warrior days are pretty much over…
Now I am only a keyboard commando…
But, I still piss off a ton of lib’s every day !!!
A few “security” troops here, a few “headquarters” troops there….next thing you know you have some actual combat boots on the ground.
Stop fucking around, either get them in and do the fucking job or get them out of harm’s way….stop playing politics and exposing troops piecemeal to enemy fire.
The Marines went ashore at Da Nang in ’65 just to protect the airfield from Viet Cong attacks…