Posted on 01/08/2017 8:39:55 PM PST by Lorianne
It's official: Marines are headed back to the Taliban hotbed of Helmand province, Afghanistan, the Marine Corps announced Friday.
The deployment of 300 Marines from II Marine Expeditionary Force will return to the southwestern province that was the site of the Corps' major battles within the country as advisers and trainers for the Afghan National Army and police, officials said in a release.
The deployment comes at the request of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Forces Afghanistan in support of the ongoing NATO-led Resolute Support mission, which began after most combat forces pulled out at the end of 2014.
The Marine detachment will be called Task Force South West and will be led by Brig. Gen. Roger Turner Jr., most recently the director of capabilities at Marine Corps Combat Development Command. It will be tasked with training the Helmand-based Afghan National Army 215th Corps and the 505th Afghan National Police command, according to the release.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Hopefully there are new ROEs coming.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP TELLING OUR ENEMY THAT WE’RE COMING ..????????
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.
Much of the idiocy of our ROE has been because of the idiot treaties our ‘allies’ have all signed.
If we want to allow our ‘allies’ to pretend they matter and have them tag along to add their own siphon to our log train, then we also have to follow the idiocies of those treaties otherwise we place our ‘allies’ in serious legal jeopardy in their own home and international* courts.
*another concept that should be burned to the ground and the ground salted with granulated plutonium.
Semper Fi brothers.
Kill them all. Let God sort it out.
L
McCain and Graham are very happy.
This could lead to WW3.
Another stupid Obama move, announcing the size, timing and location of a troop movement.
If it’s necessary for 300, send in 30,000.
Here we go again. I know a few Marines who are very familiar with Helmand.
Semiper Fi, brothers and sisters.
TC
We apparently have been telling them everything for years. The people are the last to know. All you have to do is “hack” the emails of a few folks and viola!
“WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP TELLING OUR ENEMY THAT WE’RE COMING ..????????”
January 20, 2017 at about noon time.
Everything I know about Helmand Province I know from Restrepo.
We must not waste more lives in conflicts that our leaders have no intention of winning.
Yep. This is more BS.
Oh, that's right, we are still in those wars, only now we're losing them. This little JV team known as ISIS has sprung up, and there are wars in Crimea, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan... Obama, what a POS.
Making things worse—then making things worser!
Only 300 ?
Is that enough to have the right mix of all the possible combinations of race, gender and ethnicity? Are any of those new female infantry grunts included?
still going after those elusive hearts and minds
Haven’t we “helped” enough?
300 is a blood sacrifice IMHO. If we need to go back in, we go back in big. Hopefully Mattis will weigh in on this. Otherwise it's just an invitation for more green-on-blue attacks.
Yes, training the ANA seems to be a wasted effort.
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