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US deploys fighter jets to Poland, Lithuania (a massive force of 12 F-16s!!!)
AFP ^
| 3/9/2014
Posted on 03/09/2014 2:42:05 PM PDT by markomalley
The United States is sending a dozen F-16 fighter jets to Poland as a part of a training exercise, amid continuing tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the Polish defence ministry said on Sunday.
Three hundred US service personnel will also be sent to Poland as part of the exercise. The deployment will be completed by Thursday.
Chuck Hagel, the US Secretary of State for Defence, and his Polish counterpart Tomasz Siemoniak agreed the deployment during a phone call, according to a statement from the Polish ministry.
"The unit will be composed of 12 F-16 planes and will transport 300 soldiers," defence ministry spokesman Jacek Sonta told AFP.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimeacrisis; f16; lawndart; lithuania; poland; russia; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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To: Marguerite
“Stupid US gesticulation.”
Evil America, isn’t it ?
To: Timber Rattler
Do not diss or underestimate the F-16.
F-16 Mom
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posted on
03/09/2014 4:27:22 PM PDT
by
Himyar
To: markomalley
To: Forward the Light Brigade
Too late! Putin has already requested military and/or naval basing rights in Cuba, Nicaraugua, and Venezuela.
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posted on
03/09/2014 4:30:27 PM PDT
by
WhiskeyX
( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
To: markomalley; All
45
posted on
03/09/2014 4:44:05 PM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
To: markomalley
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posted on
03/09/2014 4:52:05 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Screw the farmers. I can get everything I need at the grocery store.)
To: ansel12
16001 guess who the odd ball is
47
posted on
03/09/2014 5:02:01 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
To: al baby
You? What were you doing, and what did you think about it all, and did you think it was headed for anything big?
48
posted on
03/09/2014 5:07:54 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
To: ansel12
49
posted on
03/09/2014 5:12:26 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
To: al baby
Oh, Kerry was there years after JFK’s 16,000 troops of 1963.
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posted on
03/09/2014 5:16:26 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
To: markomalley
That’s going to really make Putin quake in his boots.
But that’s the point. It’s not boots. It’s phony baloney aircraft exercises. Means nothing. The airplanes go home.
What’s needed is a serious military show of force. Like sending a NATO battalion into the Baltics. That is off script for the kenyan and the EU. Putin would soil his undies if that happened.
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posted on
03/09/2014 5:28:05 PM PDT
by
lodi90
To: Himyar
They’re 30-year old technology and there are only 12 of them. If Putin was so inclined, his hordes of MiG-29s and Su-27s would blow them out of the air through sheer numbers.
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posted on
03/09/2014 7:44:59 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: markomalley
That's going to really make Putin quake in his boots. The little man is stamping his foot.
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posted on
03/09/2014 7:54:24 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
To: DoodleDawg
To: Grzegorz 246
Why ? That's my question exactly. Why? Why are we sending a dozen jets to Poland?
To: DoodleDawg
Because it is a part of air force exercises scheduled a year or so ago ? What’s your problem with that ?
To: markomalley
Finished reading Tom Clancy's final novel, Command Authority, last night. Geez Louise, it is spooky how close his yarn is to the real thing, saving of course the contrast between the fictional POTUS Jack Ryan and the impostor/treasonous POTUS #44 BHO.
To: markomalley
I used to guard more fighters than that at a small Air Guard base.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:31:03 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: markomalley
They belong on OUR southern border.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:33:54 PM PDT
by
grania
To: cripplecreek
“Its a great way to spend lots of money we don’t have.”
I wonder how many jets Poland and Lithuania have for their own defence.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:35:04 PM PDT
by
Owl558
(Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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