{"id":116728,"date":"2021-08-23T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116728"},"modified":"2021-08-22T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T01:28:55","slug":"has-the-82nd-abn-commander-told-the-sas-to-stop-making-the-us-look-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116728","title":{"rendered":"Has the 82nd ABN commander told the SAS to stop making the US look bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 82nd Airborne Division is the United State’s point until on securing and holding the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. As we know from multiple reports, the Brits, French, and even German military\/police units in Afghanistan are sending teams out from the airport, into Kabul, to secure the safe return of their citizens. The US, the world’s pre-eminent and most powerful military force in all of human history, is…not.<\/p>\n

The official US policy for several days now has either been “shelter in place” or good luck. As Biden said it just a few days ago, “Any American who wants to come home, we will get you home\u2026I cannot promise what the final outcome will be, or that it will be without risk of loss.” In other words, you might be dead, but we’ll bring you home.<\/p>\n

With the US sitting tight at the airport and “negotiating” with the Taliban for the safe passage of our citizens to the airport, the Brits, French, and Germans are making us look bad. We can all agree on this. Allegedly the commanding general of the 82nd voiced this concern to his SAS counterpart.<\/p>\n

From the Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue has told his British Army counterpart, a high-ranking field-grade officer of the British army’s 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, that British operations were embarrassing the United States military in the absence of similar U.S. military operations, according to multiple military sources. I understand that the British officer firmly rejected the request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope the SAS commander’s response was something like the response of then-Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe to the Germans at Bastogne. To paraphrase;<\/p>\n

To the American Commander.<\/em><\/p>\n

NUTS!<\/em><\/p>\n

The Special Air Service Commander.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

General Donahue, if you’re not familiar with him, has an impressive resume. He was commissioned infantry out of West Point in ’92, is a Ranger (both tab and scroll variety), attended Harvard University as a War College Fellow, and was selected for and served in the Army’s most elite unit, the Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment \u2013 Delta, popularly known as Delta Force. He’s deployed 17 times to all the usual shitholes over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

Here’s American Thinker’s piece on it.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Poetrooper for sending in the tips on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 82nd Airborne Division is the United State’s point until on securing and holding the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. As we know from multiple reports, the Brits, French, and even German military\/police units in Afghanistan are sending teams out from the airport, into Kabul, to secure the safe return of their citizens. The US, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,301,359,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-afghanistan","category-army","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-umI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}