LEAVE CLAY AIKEN ALONE! HE'S JUST A LITTLE FELLER!
Posted on 03/16/2006 7:34:19 AM PST by blu
50 aircraft,1500 Iraqui/ US Troops in Samra (n of baghdad) , largest air and land assult since we went in.
IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, COALITION LAUNCH OPERATION SWARMER
Release Date: 3/16/2006Release Number: 06-03-01P
TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces and their Coalition partners launched the largest air assault operation since Operation Iraqi Freedom I today in southern Salah Ad Din province to clear a suspected insurgent operating area northeast of Samarra.
Operation Swarmer began this morning with soldiers from the Iraqi Army’s 1st Brigade, 4th Division, the 101st Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade conducting a combined air and ground assault to isolate the objective area.
Attack and assault aircraft provided aerial weapons support for the operation and also delivered troops from the Iraq Army’s 4th Division, the Rakkasans from 1st and 3rd Battalions, 187th Infantry Regiment and the Hunters from 2nd Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment to multiple objectives. Forces from the 2nd Commando Brigade then completed a ground infiltration to secure numerous structures in the area.
More than 1,500 Iraqi and Coalition troops, over 200 tactical vehicles, and more than 50 aircraft participated in the operation.
Initial reports from the objective area indicate that a number of enemy weapons caches have been captured, containing artillery shells, explosives, IED-making materials, and military uniforms.
The operation is expected to continue for several days as a thorough search of the objective area is conducted.
Operation Swarmer follows closely the completion of a combined Iraqi – Coalition operation west of Samarra in early March that yielded substantial enemy weapons and equipment caches.
The name Swarmer was derived from the name given to the largest peacetime airborne maneuvers ever conducted, in spring 1950 in North Carolina. Soon after this exercise, the 187th Infantry was selected to deploy to Korea as an Airborne Regimental Combat Team to provide General MacArthur with an airborne capability.
Kimberly is the attractive brunette on Sat & Sun 9-10 EST. She's a former prosecutor and DA, too. To tell you the truth I liked Rita better.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182882,00.html
There is a 187th Infantry Regiment...
This is no exercise..
You are far off base. Your Fox baswhing is completely out of order.
HAHAHA....they managed to smoke it from the media. I love it!
It's nighttime here now...no movements at night unless it's critical. I can just see all the newsies shoving each other out of the way to get convoys and PSD runs to Samarra in the morning. LOL
Not its not....they will soon break away to cover the latest missing pretty white girl.....just watch.
Hunting high value targets based on intel.....Hmmmm.
Round em up, line up, shot em down! GO US KICK SOME TERRORIST A*S!
I don't want to watch car chases, et al on Fox to get info. :)
See also #241....."187".............
I bet we'll have guys moving in the dark.
Since you don't watch you have no basis for your bitch.
Geraldo + Shep + hysterical Hurricane Katrina reporting + 24/7/365 missing pretty girl du jour = so long, Fox News.
Those two are the absolute bottom of the barrel. Under the barrel is Jerry Springer. I did happen to catch the special they did on Iran and the bomb last weekend because I was visiting someone who was watching it. Rudi Bakhtiar is at Fox now, and the special was good. David Asman was the host.
Captures have taken place per FNC.............
Major Bob seems to be the only articulate military commentator on FOX. The rest appear to mumble and stumble. IMO
I don't post for the same reason. I survived my single newbie vanity and a whole lot of responses.
"You've posted a total of 1 thread and 23,166 replies."
I hear ya.
After I was carpet bombed with a load of bitchy, bioler plate
posts that me think being a Democrat might not be so bad, I stayed with replies.
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