Obama to send approximately 350 additional military personnel to Iraq

Fox News ^ | Sept. 2,2014

[Hojczyk]

President Obama announced Tuesday he is sending approximately 350 additional military personnel to Iraq to protect U.S. diplomatic facilities and workers in Baghdad.

The White House said in a press release that the personnel will not serve a combat role, and are fulfilling a request from the State Department for more protection as the country fights an insurgency from the Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS or ISIL. The White House said the additional personnel will be able to provide a

[SoFloFreeper]

#NoStrategy

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[arthurus]

350. If it ia a battlefield nuke unit then maybe there is some use to it.

[GeronL]

They won’t get anywhere near occupied Ukraine

[GeronL]

lol

[hal ogen]

Clown Prince nobama is focusing on a strategy...a strategy to avoid being imprisoned for the rest of his worthless life.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[TaMoDee]

Their logistical slice is 3500+ for sure. (Granted not all are in Iraq.)

[Chgogal]

Hmm, we only need 25 more Americans to be beheaded before there are 10,000 boots on the ground.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Will they be wearing boots?

[Noob1999]

What a weak knee’ed POS!

It’s time to kill each and every cockroach in their hidee hole!

[Bratch]

[BwanaNdege]

...to protect U.S. diplomatic facilities and workers in Baghdad.

Let us hope that at least a dozen or more are Forward Air Controllers with plenty of Ground Laser Target Designators & spare batteries.

Keep a Global Hawk on station, a few Hellfire armed Predators loitering and an AC-130U Spooky on strip alert.

For starters...