To: mdittmar
Sorry folks. Total BULL SHIT! (sorry ladies and moderator), but that is what this is. First, there ARE NOT 39 soldiers in a PLATOON. There are normally 4 squads in a platoon. From 8 to 12 can be in a platoon. Captains do not command platoons. Lieutenants lead platoons, with normally a sergeant first class as platoon sergeant. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BREAK UP A PLATOON and send part to one country and part to another. This makes absolutely NO SENSE to me at all. Hell, we did not even do things that stupid back in Vietnam and I can tell you there was some pretty dumb crap done back then. This is all Stalin Obama’s pure bull shit. I WANT TO SEE YOUR FACTS OSAMA! Not your bull shit. (again sorry ladies)
2 posted on
02/22/2008 5:45:20 PM PST by
RetiredArmy
(Obama: NOT the next JFK. He is the NEXT STALIN!!!! Wake up America!!!)
To: RetiredArmy
I think you meant that from 8 to 12 can be in a SQUAD.
Otherwise, good post.
Hooh-ah.
6 posted on
02/22/2008 5:50:31 PM PST by
PalmettoMason
( I am a footsoldier in the ANYBODY BUT McCAIN REVOLUTION!)
To: RetiredArmy
Well ABC says the Captain in question had been promoted, but was reporting on the condition of the platoon he had commanded when a Lieutenant.
Of course the story is BS—thanks for confirming my intuition (based on no military experience whatsoever) that the notion of dividing a platoon to deploy part to one theater and part to another was absolute rot.
8 posted on
02/22/2008 5:52:47 PM PST by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: RetiredArmy
Calling the Pajamahadeen!!!! Pick-up the white courtesy phone...
10 posted on
02/22/2008 5:59:57 PM PST by
Anti-Hillary
(Lest anyone forgot, WE ARE AT WAR!!!!! NOW IS NOT THE TIME IN HISTORY TO TEACH THE PARTY A LESSON!!)
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