Posted on 02/12/2015 11:30:31 AM PST by Timber Rattler
HEADQUARTERS MARINE CORPS, WASHINGTON — The Marine Security Force left the American embassy in Yemen for the movement to the airfield as part of the "ordered departure" with only personal weapons. All crew served weapons were destroyed at the embassy prior to movement. None of them were 'handed over' in any way to anyone. The destruction of weapons at the embassy and the airport was carried out in accordance with an approved destruction plan.
Upon arrival at the airfield, all personal weapons were rendered inoperable in accordance with advance planning. Specifically, each bolt was removed from its weapons body and rendered inoperable by smashing with sledgehammers. The weapons bodies, minus the bolts, were then separately smashed with sledgehammers. All of these destroyed components were left at the airport -- and components were scattered; no usable weapon was taken from any Marine at Sana'a airport.
To be clear: No Marine handed a weapon to a Houthi, or had one taken from him.
(Excerpt) Read more at marines.mil ...
Well jeepers Wally, that changes everything.
Maybe not......Yet by running away they did give them Yemen. So what is the count now? Iraq, Syria and Yemen? Fortunately Egypt had the balls to fight back.
Umm, I’ll wait for the pictures. With this government, you can never be sure. Regardless, why did this happen anyway? I have heard it was because they were taking civilian transport. Was that true? Has this disarmed evacuation happened before?
Wait I forgot the most important one. This country. he is giving that away as well.
... in accordance with advance planning.
WTF ???
Dunno, but the word from Pentagon reporters is that the CENTCOM brass is mighty pissed off about it.
Another “politically correct” mpve from a U.S. State Dept that has $hit for brains.
But why were they taking civilian transport? Why couldn’t we evacuate our own personnel? Area saturated in, oh, I don’t know... what could it be? Benghazi MANPADS, maybe?
So, we surrendered? Is that what happened?
This stinks.
5.56mm
Hanoi Boi “Swift Boated” the Marines with this fiasco.
“Who gave the order to disarm our Marines?”
SOS kerry would be the irresponsible party.
I looked up the DoD and USMC contact info today to call and give a bit of my nail-spitting anger to someone.
Then, I calmed down and prayed that a 4-star would make a nail-spitting memo more tolerable, after a few drafts of the PR spoxbot.
You forgot Libya. ( Ghadoofi begged Bush not to crush him and gave up his entire weapons program to).
Ha...high tensile IED's coming to a neighborhood near you.
“MANPADS, maybe?”
SOS kerry probably uses kneepads.
Everything in the military is done with an advance plan or contingency plan. Back in the 1930s, the US had a strategic plan for war against the UK. Wasn’t needed, wasn’t used, but the planning was done anyway.
When I was an artillery missile platoon leader, we had a plan and a technical manual and an Army Reg for destroying the nuclear warheads with a shaped charge explosive. There were specific reports required after having done it, too.
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