Posted on 11/30/2003 12:47:38 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
Nam Vet
I caught this at lunchtime, and darned near fell out of my seat laughing! SSG Jones just put the lie to the line that they killed any civilians. Long before the bullets start flying the civilians un-a$$ the AO and the only ones left are combatants. And the reporter just didn't catch it. Dolt.
MR. SENOR (Daniel Senor, Senior Advisor to CPA): And I will just add to that, what is definitely sophisticated is the success and implementation of the currency exchange. Twenty-seven 747 flights full of currency, 2,300 tons of currency, to 240 exchange points across the country; almost 1,000 Iraqi personnel trained for the mission, over 10,000 if you include banking personnel. Each of these exchange sites are being visited multiple times by convoys, of which there have been 600 convoys shooting across the country. This all in just a month and a half. This currency exchange was launched on October 15th. It's set for three months. And 75 percent of the currency is in circulation that we are exchanging.
Looks like January 15, 2004.
Good info in the briefing, this is the 5th or 6th such convoy of money into Samarrah, and they have taken fire every time. Only thing different about this one was the number of ambushers (nearly 100) and the fact that we reported the numbers of enemy dead. Briefing is linked here.
I have respect for the IDF. However, I don't think the USMC needs too much advice in how to deal with the enemy.
Meanwhile, the jihadists are still using Pickett's Charge tactics.
We had two flavors of canister for the 90mm gun of the M48 tank; one with a thousand half-inch roller bearings as per that traditional *grapeshot* load, known as *black can*, or *beehive" with the alternate being *green can,* loaded with 8500 nail-like flechettes.
The M551 Sheridan, with a 152mm main gun made an even better shotgun. The bigger, the better. I always figured thay should have had beehive rounds for the 8-inch and 175mm guns.
The Jihadists' synchronized raids on two seperate convoys is a little better than Pickett's charge against fixed positions, and recalls the Mexican cavalry raid on the French Foreign Legion pay train guarded by a Lieutenant Danjou and his men near the city of Puebla, at a wrecked chapel and graveyard that's been come to be known as the Fight at Camerone, 30 April, 1963. Should you require details, you can easily enough look it up, but it's better to hear the story directly from a Foreign Legionaire on the anniversary of that date.
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