26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deploys more Marines to Iraq
The Marine Corps Times reports that the 26th MEU is deploying more Marines to Iraq from the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group in the wake of the rocket attack near Makhmur, Iraq where Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin was killed the other day;
Makhmur is also where the Nineveh Operations Center is located. It is a primary base from which the U.S. can support Iraqi forces when they eventually try to retake Mosul, which fell to the Islamic State in June 2014. Iraqi military leaders plan to deploy about 4,500 troops to the area for the upcoming operation.
Hundreds of Marines have been quietly deploying to Iraq over the past 16 months to assist Iraqis fighting to retake territory from ISIS militants.
Ain’t it funny how that mission just creeps up on you. No matter how hard you try not to fight a war, eventually, you have to fight it the way you should have fought it in the first-damn-place
Category: Marine Corps, Terror War
I thought we were pulling out of this place. What did I miss?
Precisely what I thought, then I had to go back and find this article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/12/obama-boots-on-the-ground/418635/
That is a hole lot of kick ass with shitty ROE’s, so as we say in the bodybuilding world all show and no go.
What’s past is prologue. Did Kerry okay this before he didn’t okay this? Is this oBaMa’s plan to erase ISIS before he leaves office? Here’s a thought. Some number of Marines will die and others will suffer non-fatal wounds. The American public will remain largely ignorant of it unless Wide Load (now in debt to oBaMa for no indictment) throws caution to the wind and badmouths the escalation. It’s political football season again and the American military is being punted all over the damn place.
You left out the part about cutbacks in logistics and stuff like that, Air Cav.
I don’t think anyone has used the words “peace dividend” yet, either.
So, who is going to set off the next nuke? Iran or Norkiland? We already know Norkiland has had two successful underground tests that rattled seismometers at 2.5M, and I think there are published photos of Iran’s test tunnel.
My odds are on Norkiland, because they’re also throwing rockets or something at the South.
Anyone want odds on Iran?
A third Party Proxy that one of the two if not both will give them to set off. The third Party Probaley starts an I it and a L at the end. Just an observation.
Chief, that’s too close to real for comfort.
Hope you aren’t using “M” above to mean “megaton”, Ex-PH2.
Per widely published reports, North Korea has conducted 4 weapons tests – 2006, 2009, 2013, and 2016. Best public estimate of yields were approx 1kT, 2-4kT, 6-9kT, and 7-9kT, respectively.
While North Korea claimed the last test was “thermonuclear”, the yield of the last test says “no damn way”. That one was doubtless yet another fission test.
Massing a bunch of US troops in a war zone with no mission to be sitting ducks for the enemy.
What could go wrong……
Libtard warfare.