Posted on 10/14/2016 10:17:30 AM PDT by mainestategop
K is a Nazi.
Fortunately, Israel is stronger now and doesn’t have to cooperate with Nazi or IslamoNazi plans to destroy her.
“The Egyptians are carrying suitcases.”
Suitcases that turned out to be anti tank missiles.
“The Valley Of Tears” is well named.
The Syrian Soldiers in that war have been labeled as being inept, but they kept on coming even though the vehicles around them were going up in flames.
The story of Avigdor Kahalani is engrossing.
I think he was seriously wounded in the Sinai in the 1967 war.
The timeline here is fascinating to me as I saw events which indicate that the U.S. knew war was coming and was aiding Israel well beforehand.
I graduated Troy University in June 1973, Months before the war. Sometime a few months before that, our class had taken a three day field trip to Mobile, Alabama.
We spent most of our time interviewing businesses in downtown Mobile, also visiting a large Mall and the closed Air Force Base whose name I have a mental block right now.
We also visited the Alabama State Docks. When we got there, we saw an incredible sight. Literally hundreds of tanks and other armored vehicles all around the port. It might even have been in the thousands.
Our professor sent me and Barry Diamond, to ask a crew member of one of the ships where the tanks were going. He told us they were being shipped to Israel. BTW, Barry is now a comedian and has been on Seinfeld.
It did strike me as fascinating that so much military goods were going to a single country.
What it all meant, I still don’t know. I do know it happened tho.
The timeline here is fascinating to me as I saw events which indicate that the U.S. knew war was coming and was aiding Israel well beforehand.
I graduated Troy University in June 1973, Months before the war. Sometime a few months before that, our class had taken a three day field trip to Mobile, Alabama.
We spent most of our time interviewing businesses in downtown Mobile, also visiting a large Mall and the closed Air Force Base whose name I have a mental block right now.
We also visited the Alabama State Docks. When we got there, we saw an incredible sight. Literally hundreds of tanks and other armored vehicles all around the port. It might even have been in the thousands.
Our professor sent me and Barry Diamond, to ask a crew member of one of the ships where the tanks were going. He told us they were being shipped to Israel. BTW, Barry is now a comedian and has been on Seinfeld.
It did strike me as fascinating that so much military goods were going to a single country.
What it all meant, I still don’t know. I do know it happened tho.
Kissinger did request that Israel not launch a preemptive attack which was a bad thing, but Nixon mobilized the American military logistics system with an order to his Generals ,” There is no time. You know what they will need so start to pull anything and everything they could possibly need and send it now- even if they have not requested it”
The aid was mobilized and got there just in time even with Nixon's order, but it got there.
This is as per Menachm Begin long after Nixon was gone in disgrace.
In Begins words, “God bless Richard Nixon, he saved the State of Israel”
The timeline here is fascinating to me as I saw events which indicate that the U.S. knew war was coming and was aiding Israel well beforehand.
I graduated Troy University in June 1973, Months before the war. Sometime a few months before that, our class had taken a three day field trip to Mobile, Alabama.
We spent most of our time interviewing businesses in downtown Mobile, also visiting a large Mall and the closed Air Force Base whose name I have a mental block right now.
We also visited the Alabama State Docks. When we got there, we saw an incredible sight. Literally hundreds of tanks and other armored vehicles all around the port. It might even have been in the thousands.
Our professor sent me and Barry Diamond, to ask a crew member of one of the ships where the tanks were going. He told us they were being shipped to Israel. BTW, Barry is now a comedian and has been on Seinfeld.
It did strike me as fascinating that so much military goods were going to a single country.
What it all meant, I still don’t know. I do know it happened tho.
This is a very strange triple post.
I only hit post once but got a server 401 error or something like that. I hit the back button, copied my post just in case it had not posted then just scanned the thread.
Not only did the post get posted, it did so 3 times.
The Soviet Union threatened to intervene with special forces but the 6th fleet was ordered to interdict and the Soviets backed down before the cease fire went into effect.
Kissinger is a Jewish Nazi?
Who knew?
Without reading I’m guessing this is a lets polish up the Golda Mier mythology at Henry’s expense sort of work
I’ll pass
Nixon built and air-bridge to Israel from Europe which was fed by and air-bridge from USA to Europe. Naval assets were flowing toward Israel. On and on...
I went on leave from my submarine in the Mediterranean on October 6, 1973. There was extra security at the Rome Airport, but I really didn’t think anything of it. When I got to New York to change planes for Groton, CT, I called my wife, and the first thing she asked me was when I had to go back! That was the first time I heard of the war.
After my two weeks of leave, the Squadron sent me back to Submarine Group Eight in Naples, because, while we “weren’t responding to the war,” TREPANG had left port early. It turned out that the skipper of the first submarine I had ever ridden on was the US Chief of Staff at SUBGRU8 and he handed me two weeks of message traffic and told me to write that Mission Report for SUBGRU8. Shortly before it was over, I was sent out to be the submarine liaison officer to CTF 69 INDEPENDENCE (CV-62) for a week or so.
This account matches my recollection of what was going on.
My best Jewish friend ever fought in a tank squad as a demolition guy in the Syrian theatre
He said the Syrians were hapless and caved quick and preferred surrender to IDF over retreating to Big Assad
He said they were not prepared to handle so many prisoners
Typical Arabs frankly.....sorry T.E.
There was no Hezbollah then
The disaster was entirely on the Israeli leadership - primarily Golda Meir, Def Min. Moshe Dyan, IDF David Elazar and Mossad’sl Zvi Zamir.
The attack was no surprise, the Israeli leadership just refused to prepare even the most basic steps to mobilize until it was far too late.
This guy completely ignores Operation Nickel Grass.
Whenever I think of that war, I think of this guy.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/greengold.html
Balls the size of Minnesota.
Despite many hit movies, Special Forces in a highly dynamic mechanized desert war aren’t much use.
I was stationed at Pope AFB working long hours supporting the airlift side of the equation.
Suggested reading for all interested:Arab-Israeli Wars by Chaim Herzog.
The ROP called The Ramadan War. What did Israel have to atone for in calling it the Yom Kippur war?
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