Posted on 12/13/2019 4:58:39 PM PST by daniel1212
I was an infantry company commander in Germany. We had recently received the TOW missile system mounted on M113 armored vehicles. We loaded all of our missiles, our launchers, and our missile control boxes and delivered them to Ramstein Air Base. We weren’t told where they were going, but it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they were going to Israel.
In my opinion, saving Israel was Richard Nixon’s greatest accomplishment as president.
Wow, just wow.
I remember the war, but had no idea of such details.
Thanks for the education.
BKMRK.
Thank God for the ending!
The Persians would like to take on the sons of Abraham but they are weak and becoming weaker; their plans are frustrated by a wise president. Barack Obama sent them pallets of cash to try to appease them. This president, knowing their designs, puts sanctions to a fare-thee-well on their pitiful economy.
Thank you, Mr. President, for fulfilling your role in providence.
And a mom who is said to have prophesied his purpose in this case. Reminds me of,
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14)
In 1973 our class at Troy University took a field trip to Mobile. We did a lot of things but we also visited the state docks.
When we got there, we saw hundreds, maybe even thousands of tanks and armored vehicles being loaded on ships. Our professor sent me and a guy named Barry Diamond to ask at one of the ships what was going on. (Diamond later became a slightly well known comedian).
We found out they were going to Israel but decided to play a joke on our professor. We told him they were going to the Irish Republican Army. It was the stupidest thing we could think of. Our professor who was really intelligent, believed us.
Something doesn’t agree with the timeline tho as this was in the Spring of 1973, before that war but I sure do recall something going on over there at the time.
When I got to Germany in January 1975 my tanks were still painted in 3 color desert camo.
"it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they were going to Israel." Is that a pun?:) Thank you for your service, and thank God for America's part in Israel's hour of need.
What I sees as especially of note is that "tankers were ferrying factory-fresh Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft flying non-stop from the factory in St. Louis, Missouri to Ben Gurion Airport."
That is what you call fast shipping.
Note that "The Stratotankers had left Pease AFB, New Hampshire, the night of Saturday, 13 October (one of the bases El Al was using to re-supply the war effort)
That has been reduced to a Air National Guard Base
What a contrast. And the article also attests to the proxy war we still see going on. I believe we should have help Russia with humanitarian aid (the loved the Spam) but not so much that they became an advancing army, even getting to Berlin (and so many of the spoils) first. By shortening the war thusly the USA fostered decades of proxy wars which still cost us. Of course, Russia still would have recovered if they stayed in their borders in a stalemate war with Hitler until the West defeated him, but it would have been much slower. "Uncle Joe" was a monster.
Amen.
I know the adage about fighting yesterday’s wars, but does anyone believe that today’s America could move that much material in such a short time frame?
Which also deals with the character of today's force, and is a good question, as is how much is the contrast btwn today's military production capability and that of WW2, as detailed in the FR thread: How ridiculous was American production in World War 2
President Nixon had to overrule KissingNazi’s embargo on normal resupplies, which to RMN’s great credit he did and did promptly. Thank you President Nixon!
At least you did not say Costa Rica!
We first thought of the last thing they would import into Alabama and peanuts made sense. We then told him they were importing peanuts from Ireland in exchange for weapons.
The story was a little better than we realized as Ireland does grow peanuts which we did not know.
awesome AWESOME post ! thanks !
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