A thousand paratroopers headed for Iraq next month
OK, my timing was off a hair, but my prediction that the 82nd Airborne Division would send a brigade to Iraq is closer to realization, according to Stars & Stripes;
The soldiers from the 82nd’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., will begin to deploy in late January to train, advise and assist the ISF, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.
Their mission is part of the coalition effort to build up the Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga so that they can recapture territory from Islamic State militants.
The paratroopers are preparing for a nine-month deployment, according to a spokeswoman for the 82nd Airborne.
Back on December 1st we wrote about 250 paratroopers from the 1-505th PIR who were going to Iraq this month, so this must be the rest of that battalion and some support folks. If I’m not mistaken, the 505th Regiment is the majority of the 3rd Brigade troops.
Category: Terror War
This is my ‘surprised’ look.
No, really.
/sarc
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Mission Accomplished II, Islamic State Boogaloo
/really? they must be wearing Tan Bunny Slippers because I was told no Boots.
And you actually believed this
DC clown kreweAdministration when they told you that, ChipNASA?Well most of the time the folks *outside* the Beltway wonder what that smell is coming from *inside* the Beltway.
It ain’t Shineola.
“No boots on the ground…” Well except for the paratroopers, they can wear their boots, everyone else must wear tennis shoes…
God Speed! AATW!
They meant COMBAT boots – these guys will be wearing JUMP boots. Duh.
😀
Sounds to me like our whole freaking military has been turned into contractors.
Actually, what I meant to say was “turned into INTERNATIONAL HOUSEBOYS,” but I was trying to be polite.
Might as well be from how the government continually shafts us. And I don’t mean the typical nineties grunt shit, neither.
“Iraqi officials are reportedly eager to go on the offensive and retake places like Mosul, but the U.S. military believes the ISF aren’t ready.” Eager to go on the offensive? Yeah, sure, that’s a credible statement. I’m buying that. It’s a twofer. Also with it comes a bridge in Brooklyn, really cheap. As for the ISF not being ready, they never will be ready if they aren’t now. And this time around, I suggest that the ISF troops have their weapons superglued to their hands and be forced to wear lead boots. Seriously, I think Stalin’s WW II special order should be used here. Anybody attempting to run away is to be shot.
So much for the war being over. I guess the whole “no boots on the ground” thing was false too. I hate to say it, but it looks like we’ve been lied to. What a surprise /sarc/
Doesn’t count unless they jump in.
Who sends paratroopers to train the non trainable? Community Organizers that’s who.
“…the 505th Regiment is the majority of the 3rd Brigade troops.”
And the military has some special operators in that part of the country. They may be in cahoots, which is a technical term meaning they kick A together.
2/505 panthers
My grunts for five years.
Is this a case of ‘if you don’t know what to do, make it something stupid’? And lie your ass off while you’re at it?
What’s the total now? I’ve lost count – 5,000 or something?
GOD BE WITH THEM, I’m sure B. Hussein 0bama & Company aren’t.
Are they even getting Hostile Fire Pay, or are they scrooging on that to help pay for B. Hussein 0bama & Family’s latest lavish vacation?
I was a staff NCO in 2d Brigade, 82d Airborne in 1967 and cannot for the life of me remember which infantry battalions we had at the time. I’m thinking the 325th and the 504th but Old Fart’s Disease is blocking my memory. Anyone out there who can help?
2/505, 1/508, 321 art, 17 cav. spt. btn.
oppss sorry that was the 3rd. bgd. (Golden) that went to Nam, I served in both 2/505 and 1/508 as a 91B20 in 68 and 69.
Operation Airborne Sneakers Assault
3rd BCT is built around 1,2 and 3 battalions 505th PIR and their DS artillery and other troops. 1,000 is about right for a battalion task force (infantry battalion, FA battery, and other’slice’