Posted on 01/27/2015 6:50:36 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The 82nd Airborne, and more specifically its 3rd Brigade Combat Team, are no strangers to Iraq.
Since 2003, parts of the brigade have deployed in support of U.S. efforts there on at least three occasions.
Now, more than three years after the U.S. military presence in Iraq was thought over, about a quarter of the Panther Brigade will return with a new mission to help train Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State.
About 1,000 paratroopers from the brigade will deploy this week as part of the Operation Inherent Resolve mission.
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Seppuku then would be appropriate.
They’re being set up to be killed. It’s what ø does.
I wonder if OZero even ordered this. Could this is another example of the military doing what IT thinks is right and telling the pResident to STFU?
Former 82nd 504 RCT. Wanted to get specifics on unit identification. Link to Fayetteville paper goes to S&S which doesn’t open
H-Minus The Panther Brigade. Great Unit, wish I was 40 years younger!http://www.bragg.army.mil/82nd/3bct/Pages/3bctregimentalhistory.aspx
They should only be sent in after the neutron radiation has subsided.
How about out the back of a C-130 from about 12,000 with only his B.S. and Rhetoric???
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