Posted on 04/08/2015 10:41:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve this summer.
About 500 paratroopers from the division headquarters will leave in June for a nine-month deployment, Fort Bragg said in a news release.
Paratroopers will have a contingent in Iraq. Other paratroopers will be based outside Iraq in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.
The division will serve as the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command-Iraq and provide command and control of coalition troops who are training, advising and assisting Iraqi Security Forces. The 1st Infantry Division of Fort Riley, Kansas, is in command. It has been there since October.
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Gee. the media told me it sure is a good thing Obama got us out of Iraq....
But they will where sneakers, so there will be no “boots on the ground. “Operation Inherent Resolve” where do they get these names?
I guess they don’t wear boots
I think 0bama should send one of his tranny divisions.
That’s not possible. U.S. troops are not allowed to be in Iraq any more.
Under this president, I’m not in favor of any of our people going into harms way. Yes, we’re better off doing nothing for the next 2 years.
“U.S. troops are not allowed to be in Iraq any more.”
Sounds like most of them will be based at some other command post in the region, like Kuwait, Jordan or Qatar - hell, maybe even Saudi Arabia the way things are going. Some number (probably a small fraction, to be liaison officers) will be in Iraq.
We have been running a command element out of northern Jordan, looking at the Syrian effort to overthrow the Iranian-backed Assad regime. In Iraq, we will be supporting the other side of the Sunni/Shia proxy war, which will be touchy for all involved.
If we start putting hundreds of more troops into Iraq, the logistics footprint is going to have to grow with them - food service, guard forces, medical - and re-buying all the stuff that was abandoned when Obama ordered that hasty march to the border.
What a joke after cutting and running in Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Yemen.
More like:
Operation Vanishing Red-Line
Ender of wars, he is.
Seems he wants to murder some more Americans.
Enemy islamist bastard!
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