Posted on 09/26/2014 4:35:45 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Edited on 09/26/2014 4:39:30 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Roughly 500 soldiers from the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division headquarters are headed to the Middle East, with 200 of them to end up in Iraq.
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It’s probably a classified thing... but I really do wonder what percentage of all of the armed forces are deployed in other countries instead of the U.S. and its territories?
But no Boots on the ground, Odunga said so.
I wonder what type of foot gear these Big Red One soldiers will be wearing: flip-flops, bedroom slippers, tennis shoes, sneakers, or perhaps bare footed.
It is obvious from our president who never lies that they will not be wearing boots of any type.
Brilliant!
There would be peace they said.
My son is at Ft. Riley and probably will be one of these barefoot guys. I wonder if any of the female soldiers will be barefoot and pg. Pray for our unclad troops.
My Bro-in-law was 1st ID at Ft. Riley recently and served in Afghanistan.
Very Good — I had not thought of golf shoes.
When does he return his Peace Prize.
BarryO is known world wide as the Liar-in-Chief.
except for America’s media, they’ll twist it somehow or not report it at all.
With a functioning command and control on the ground, the US could air drop one division, and have a heavy division on the seas and rolling in country pretty quickly.
Finding an ISIS decisive moment now, though, is likely to be impossible. We attacked their grouped forces from the air, so now they’ve dispersed.
Any follow on combat forces should have immediately followed the softening up offered by the air campaign. They’re supposed to work in concert. Air/artillery support and then a peshmerga unit should rush into the area and take advantage of the chaos.
That’s not happening, so the next idea is to have US troops be the follow on forces. If that doesn’t happen, then they simply aren’t serious about this battle. They’re just putting on a show leading up to the election.
And golf clubs instead of guns.
I’ll buy a pair of boots myself, and send them to Iraq if I have to...
Our assault ships can get a battalion at a time to the beach in pretty jig time. There are at least nearby. We still have a staging area in Kuwait but it’s a thousand miles up the river to the fight. I wonder if Erdogan is willing to let us use his railroad yet? That would be an overnighter to get a trainload of our guys to where the Kurds could use the help? It would indeed be entertaining to see Odumbo explain to Erdogan that he needs to have a train ready at his dock first thing in the morning.
makes you wonder how many no boots on the ground are there now
If we went after ISIS in Syria first, though, it would be a landing on the Med coast near Aleppo, an air drop in the same vicinity to secure the landing, and a forced march on one of the strongholds of ISIS.
Will they be wearing boots?
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