Posted on 02/12/2015 6:30:58 PM PST by rey
This is a story with various reports flying from multiple directions and it’s hard to get a grasp on exactly what’s happening. What we know at the moment is that ISIS is claiming it has seized control of the al-Asad air base in the Ramadi area of Iraq. According to multiple twitter feeds the Iraqi army has lost contact with its people inside the base. From what we can tell the 300 Marines are on location to train Iraqi military. The Pentagon is pushing back on these initial reports about al-Asad. According to the Pentagon ISIS is initiating attacks against the base, but the heaviest fighting is happening approximately 5-10 miles away in al-Baghdadi. - See more at: http://www.libertynews.com/2015/02/breaking-reports-claim-isis-just-captured-al-asad-air-base-where-300-u-s-marines-are-now-trapped/#sthash.jv3OOUUA.dpuf
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The US military of every stripe has an SOP, TM, FM, TB, Regulation, OPLAN, etc. to cover nearly every potentiality that can possibly be anticipated. This includes the destruction of weapons of every kind, from the nukes on down. They don’t take a dump without a specified sequence or a five-paragraph ops order.
Thanks for the info C. I never dreamed that our Marines would have in place, and possibly be forced to observe, a procedure that directed them to bash their own personal carry rifles to pieces with sledgehammers. (I can see some ‘retreating’ type SOP’s for ‘em if that situation became a prudent call yeah, but NOT the bashing of their own weapons to pieces. Damn!!!)
Praying!!!!
If they have the weapons and ammo, knowing Obastard he sent them in with nothing.
OO-RAH!!!!!!!!!!
Like in Yemen...where they supposedly destroyed their weapons and left the mangled parts at the airport....
Seems to that's just some good high tensile steel to use in IED's by the enemy.
I hate conflicting information...but theres some here
they say the base hasnt been attacked
Dear Lord—that was my first, gut reaction as well. My second, remembering Jefferson felt “Marines” needed to fight radical islam (Barbary Pirates) on the high seas, that THOSE young men are trained for “this” let’s hope their CiC, and the pathetic ROE have NOT disarmed or inadequately supplied them in any way.
#SemperFi
Amen!
Umm. As much I probably hate to ask, what’s the story on the photo?
Not only a mistake, but the last mistake those camel f#ckers will ever make. Unless my guys have been completely disarmed by Obastard; in that case nail studded 2x4s, pieces of pipe, and any other sharp pointy object.
Jars filled with JP-4 or gasoline and a zippo.
Not sure; I apparently got a image that wasn’t Amb. Stevens when using google’s image search.
“In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.”
Chris Kyle, American Sniper
You just could not be more wrong. No matter who orders it, 300 Marines will not surrender to ISIS. It’ll never happen. Take it to the bank.
Yuppers
Cannot stand down if you cannot “receive” ValJar’s stand down order
Tet II
or it might be the case that the friendlies, well trained in IED manufacture, simply build IEDs for the same ISIS friendly bastards to encounter on their own, after the Marines have left.....
No, not Tet. Tonkin.
Just remember; WE won the Tet offensive.
Walter Cronkite and the citizens back home lost it for us.
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