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Army teams going to Africa as terror threat grows (35 new wars!)
AP, via Stras & Stripes ^ | December 24, 2012 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 12/24/2012 4:41:27 PM PST by Timber Rattler

A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the U.S. military emerge.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africa; army; terror; usarmy
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Of course nothing could possibly go wrong with this latest scheme...
1 posted on 12/24/2012 4:41:37 PM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Hey, that’s great!

I’m sure we will lose 35 of them.


2 posted on 12/24/2012 4:45:42 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Nothing is worse than African wars. Even the mideast is a cakewalk compared to what our soldiers will see in Africa.


3 posted on 12/24/2012 4:45:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Yaaay...!

After building GIRLS schools in Afghanistan, and trying to start FEMINISM there, NOW for the topper we will —what?— jump over the moon? NOPE..!

Think bigger..!

We’ll SAVE AFRICA FROM **SOMETHING**..!!!

Ya want YOUR kid fighting there? Huh...? For anything...?

THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT..!!!


4 posted on 12/24/2012 4:49:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Timber Rattler
Slash military funding and send 'em off to fight even more wars.. the progressive New Normal run the country like it's make-believe on a 1960s college campus. Don't you just love them?


5 posted on 12/24/2012 4:52:24 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: cripplecreek
Did you catch THIS part?

McKenna acknowledged the challenge, but said the military has to tap its conventional fighting forces for this task because there aren't enough special operations forces to meet the global training needs.

(snip)

The brigade will be carved up into different teams designed to meet the specific needs of each African nation. As the year goes on, the teams will travel from Fort Riley to those nations - all while trying to avoid any appearance of a large U.S. military footprint.

No Green Berets...just regular Army grunts trying to teach the African militias while supposedly staying incognito.

6 posted on 12/24/2012 4:52:50 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Yeah, good to know we won’t be wasting any of our diminished defense budget on unnecessary stuff like, you know, defending our own country.


7 posted on 12/24/2012 5:00:31 PM PST by Argus
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To: Timber Rattler

That’s right, the “fiscal cliff” is real relevent isn’t it, as U.S. military contractor fascism no problem ever, marches on.


8 posted on 12/24/2012 5:03:40 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Avoiding the appearance of a large military footprint” :

1. Somalia

2. Bengazi

GRAB THE “OH SH&T.!” HANDLES..!


9 posted on 12/24/2012 5:07:24 PM PST by gaijin
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Playing at being an American administration, Obama Jivethon's Lying Circus..

"Gotta help my people enough already helping whites all the time.. let's see.. not enough regulars.. bingo! I can get a two fer. I'll send National Guard to Africa that will open jobs for the millions of unemployed here!"

10 posted on 12/24/2012 5:09:42 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Timber Rattler
Bungle in the Jungle... BOHICA!!!
11 posted on 12/24/2012 5:12:24 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Timber Rattler

Obama’s adventures in intervention are the 21st century version of what was known to the English as “the white man’s burden.”


12 posted on 12/24/2012 5:15:15 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Timber Rattler

Chief Kenyan is up to something.


13 posted on 12/24/2012 5:18:17 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Timber Rattler

I still believe a “hidden power” is telling him what to do. In fact, this power is telling all the politicians what to do. Bilderberger?

This will spread our defenses even more. After Jan 20th he will announce he’s sign an EO eliminating all nukes. And I doubt one general will have the balls to even protest.


14 posted on 12/24/2012 5:21:47 PM PST by Terry Mross (I'm here for the entertainment....and I know there are people I don't like who are reading my posts.)
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My first thought was that the “political unreliables” will be the first to be deployed.

My second thought was “When are these poor guys going to be allowed to be deployed at home for a full tour?”


15 posted on 12/24/2012 5:32:16 PM PST by The Working Man
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No Green Berets...just regular Army grunts trying to teach the African militias while supposedly staying incognito.

I'm sure THAT will turn out well -- NOT.

Using Special Forces would make at least SOME sense, because their primary mission involves working with, and training, local forces. It would be good experience for SF team members.

Sending people with no training in the subject? Not so much.

16 posted on 12/24/2012 5:32:44 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Time to protest!


17 posted on 12/24/2012 5:33:25 PM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: huldah1776
I have a nephew, gets sent to Afghan for 4-5 months every year. Last time he came home, was up for a visit, hunting trip, and he said we ain't leaving Afghanistan (be there 50 years like Korea), just transitioning from reg army units to more specialized units that suffer less casualties; highly trained/skilled killers and such. Said that we were building all kinds of infrastructure (roads, FOB's ect) to hold what was necessary to keep the Taliban in check in the future.

About 1 1/2 years back, he said they had a big future mission in the horn of Africa, (terrorism and such) in a year or two. I said Big "O" might get re-elected and he won't send Americans. He told me that decisions like this are made by people above the President,no joke. He said they have this all planned out years in advance. I bet what he was telling me was the complete truth and probably for the greater good of America in the end anyway.

18 posted on 12/24/2012 5:42:35 PM PST by Eska
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To: Terry Mross

With Valerie Jarrett in his ear constantly, I have no doubt.

I don’t know how we can take another 4 years.


19 posted on 12/24/2012 5:46:13 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Timber Rattler
This administration is not afraid of screwing up real big.
We don't know if this will work at all, so let's try it in 35 different hellholes with untrained soldiers. Good idea.
Will they be allowed to use bullets?

20 posted on 12/24/2012 5:49:52 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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