Did ISIS get airdropped arms?
The Associated Press reports that ISIS claims that the air-dropped weapons and supplies intended for the Kurds landed in ISIS’ laps instead;
The cache of weapons included hand grenades, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, according to a video uploaded by a media group loyal to the Islamic State group.
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On Tuesday, IS loyalists on social media posted sarcastic thank you notes to the United States, including one image that said “Team USA.”
I don’t put a lot of stock in what ISIS say – They’re like the Triad of Bernath, Wickre and Wittgenfeld – whenever they get slapped down, they call it a great victory. Did you see those grenades? Those things are older than Islam. Is it possible? Sure. Airdrops are imprecise, especially with no controllers on the ground and in the fluid battle situation that exists in Kobani/Kobane.
The Pentagon admits that they lost control of one bundle of stuff, but they claim that the rest made it into Kurds’ hands.
Category: Terror War
I’m pretty sure hand grenades aren’t just thrown in a box for air drops. Just a thought…
Fuzes?
Looks like a box of paperweights to me.
It’s hogwash.**
I saw that story and my first thought was that those things look like they’re left over from something else.
I can stand next to a Picasso and claim that I painted it, but that doesn’t make me Picasso, either.
**Hogwash is an appropriate term when used as a disclaimer for jihadi stories. No hogs were hurt by my use of hogwash.
I wonder if they also got that pallet of pork-patty MREs that drifted their way?
That brings back memories; dehydrated pork patty and dehydrated beef patty. God those were awful.
Really? Those two were my favorite. I was quite the MRE chef during Desert Storm.
Smash the patty up, crumble the crackers into the mix, add appropriate seasoning, a little water, and let it sit on the heater vent of your HMMWV for 20 minutes.
God I loved those.
And for dessert … a brick of dehydrated strawberries crumbled up, add the cocoa mix, a little water, heat the same way.
YUM
3E9, I hate to sound like one of those old farts holding down a bar stool at the VFW who always has a better war story than the younger guys, but seriously, if you never had the experience of being down to your last can of C-rations and it’s a can of Pork Sausage Patties, you haven’t experienced true dietary disgust and revulsion.
Early in the Vietnam War, 65-66, we were eating C-rats packed during WWII as evidenced by the cigarette packaging such as Lucky Strike Greens. Even so, most of the rations were edible, except for pork sausage patties.
Upon opening a can of pork patties, you had to dig through a thick layer of grease that had been congealed for probably twenty years. And it went downhill from there if you had the courage (or hunger) to eat the contents.
Initially we could trade them to the Vietnamese but within a few months even they wouldn’t touch them.
I’ve heard some pretty bad things about C-Rats, and I don’t doubt that those sausages were absolutely terrible and that most MREs are probably five star cuisine by comparison to most C-rats. That being said, you were lucky to get out several decades before the Army, in its infinite wisdom, graced us with the Country Captain Chicken MRE. It looked and tasted like someone had their period all over a dried out chicken cutlet and then blew their nose on it.
There needs to be a box made of the worst of the worst Army food. C-Rats, T-Rats, and MREs. I have no doubt that CCC would be in there.
A lot of old vets would want to put Beef and Rocks into that box.
Don’t listen to them. They’re crazy.
The Beef patties with potato slices (aka, Beef and Rocks), was the only C-Rat entre that was actually a meal in a can.
Hella good meal in a can too if you knew how to pressure cook it. Hella good.
Beef n’ Shrapnel
Beans n’ MotherF***ers
Screaming Yellow Death
Nothing in MREs can compare
Loved me some John Wayne Bars
Unless you didn’t pay attention to the C-Rat stove. And burnt them trying to get the beefies and fecces above room temperature. The lid from the cracker can worked as a fry pan if you had time.
I miss chopped ham and eggs.
Warmed properly they were most excellent.
Burnt, you couldn’t stomach the smell of an open can for awhile.
I get the pork angle but I can tell you, they could also use some Chicken Ala King, Tuna with Noodles or even the Cheese and Vegetable Omelet.
Weapons of Ass Destruction.
UGH!! I hated the Chicken ala King. Nastiest stuff they ever put into a foil packet.
Chicken Ala Food Poisoning…
Yep.
Don’t forget the 4 (5?) fingers of death aka hot dogs
Frankfurters with Beans…..simulated meat component. I think that disappeared in 1987
Sounds like MREs are right up there with C-rats and such culinary sensations as Ham and Motherfuckers. There could be a throw down over a can of pound cake though.
The Chocolate Choke Roll wasn’t bad either if there was time to steam it in its own can.
Eaten raw though… vaguely chocolate flavored chunk of talcum powder.
But yeah. Pound cake, cans of sliced peaches…
Ima gonna go to the store and get me some cans of sliced peaches. I’d forgotten all about those yummy little darlin’s.
If it was me, I’d booby trap a box of grenades and call it an airstrike.
Well, back in September an Iraqi pilot dropped arms and supplies by accident to ISIS in Anbar province, so wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.
That place is a soup sandwich, what a joke.
The thing to do is take a few hand grenades, short the fuses so they detonate immediately upon release of the handle, mix them in with a few boxes of duds that have the explosive replaced with inert ballast, and drop those “accidentally” in amongst IS.
Reminiscent of the Project Elder Son from Vietnam. Might be worth a try.
Thanks for the name of the program. I went and read up on it. Properly devious. 🙂
First thing I thought when I saw this article yesterday was “they need to resurrect Eldest Son”.
Oh, YEAH! I LOVE that!
I’m just a stupid squid who knows nothing about this ground pounder stuff, but the first thing that popped into my mind was, “Hmmm, the last time I saw grenades like that was in a World War Two movie.”
Are those type of grenades still being used?
Looks like left-overs from an OfficeMax paperweight sale.
I laughed.
Not by the U.S. … they were phased out in the ’70s.
Yea that was my thought as well. Those are old MK IIs that haven’t been used since the early 70s.
I suppose we could have an old inventory of them or something but it looks more likely that the ISIL propaganda machine is starting to slip a bit.
Now, I can’t get the image of two guys on Guadalcanal, one saying, “Ey, Brooklyn! Whyncha trow me a coupla dem pineapples?”
It would be really awful if we were to airdrop another load to ISIS, and they were to gather around to break down the load and it suddenly blew up, or a lurking aircraft dropped a bomb. Really bad
I like the way you think.
Pineapple grenades? We haven’t used those since God was a Lance Corporal.
Anyone for Linebacker III, Middle East Style??!?!?
Somewhere there, in a small goat herding village, the folks are saying, “What’s this stuff used for? Where’s the food? Hey, Abdul, pull that round pin thingee out of this kabob and see if it makes a sauce or something!”
The Pentagon confirmed it:
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20141022/NEWS05/310220057
Two bundles “went astray”, one was destroyed by the US, the other fell into enemy hands.
I could certainly see the IS swine thinking those supply drops were meant for them, given all the weapons and ammo that the Glorious Leader already gave them for free back when they were still only playing in Syria. Past precedent and all that…