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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Are you sure? I thought the PoS obama was out golfing again, there was another military member getting married that he wanted to interrupt
What's up brother..I feel this sentiment. I was 11th MEU/SOC with the 5th MEB. ISIS doesn't have a clue what they might be poking here; but they will if they are stupid enough.
Cannot stand down if you cannot “receive” ValJar’s stand down order
Well Mr. Obama there are boots on the ground now, whether you like it or not......
Prayers up!
It’s really not that complicated.
For the election, Obama needed to show that he could be tough on Islam.
He and Hillary planned to have the Ambassador kidnapped and then Obama would get tough on the terrorists and they would give the Ambassador back. Maybe he would bomb an aspirin or baby milk factory. Obama a hero, election in the bag.
Hillary stripped away all the security to make the kidnapping easy. Problem was that some Navy Seals showed up and started kicking some Muslim butt. Terrorists figured they were set up and the real plan was to wipe them out. They thought that Obama was trying to be the hero by defending the Ambassador.
Things spin out of control, Ambassador dies and is abused Muslim style. Obama and Hillary have to go into lie mode. A video? Really?
It seems to me that the facts of what happened seem to fit well into this scenario.
Does anyone know the real situation over there at this time?
“That’s when the adults walk in and have the serious grown up talk with the boy king.”
No that is when the federal marshals walk in, and the boy king is led out in a strait jacket. Time to exercise Amendment 25, Section 4. Or, just whatever it takes... I’ll take Biden over this pr!ck any day of the week right now.
prayer chains contacted
I thought the US evacuated?
I was thinking of a different dusty hot place I guess
Two words you dread to hear.
‘Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.”
Chris Kyle, American Sniper’
And unfortunately this is not true. Case in point is General Jones, USMC, BHO’s first national Security Adviser. A man who never saw an opportunity to surrender that he didn't like.
Hello, Obama armed ISIS, so now you want him to attack them, good luck with that one.
Well done Bobalu
MURDERERS.
This was a rare man indeed!
Hero who led last major U.S. bayonet charge dies
WASHINGTON (Nov. 19, 2009) -- Retired Col. Lewis L. Millett, who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading what was reportedly the last major American bayonet charge, died Nov 14.
Millett, 88, died in Loma Linda, Calif., last weekend after serving for more than 15 years as the honorary colonel of the 27th Infantry Regiment Association.
Millet received the Medal of Honor for his actions Feb. 7, 1951. He led Company E, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, in a bayonet charge up Hill 180 near Soam-Ni, Korea.
A captain at the time, Millet was leading his company in an attack against a strongly held position when he noticed that a platoon was pinned down by small-arms, automatic, and antitank fire.
Millett placed himself at the head of two other platoons, ordered fixed bayonets, and led an assault up the fire-swept hill. In the fierce charge, Millett bayoneted two enemy soldiers and continued on, throwing grenades, clubbing and bayoneting the enemy, while urging his men forward by shouting encouragement, according to his Medal of Honor citation.
"Despite vicious opposing fire, the whirlwind hand-to-hand assault carried to the crest of the hill," the citation states. "His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder."
During the attack, Millett was wounded by grenade fragments but refused evacuation until the objective was firmly secured. He recovered, and after the war went to attend Ranger School.
In the 1960s he ran the 101st Airborne Division Recondo School, for reconnaissance-commando training, at Fort Campbell, Ky. Then he served in a number of special operations advisory assignments in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He founded the Royal Thai Army Ranger School with help of the 46th Special Forces Company. This unit is reportedly the only one in the U.S.Army to ever simultaneously be designated as both Ranger and Special Forces.
Millet was born in Maine and first enlisted in 1940 in the Army Air Corps and served as a gunner. Soon after, when it appeared that the U.S. would not enter World War II, he left and joined the Canadian Army.
In 1942, while Millet was serving in London, the United States entered the war. Millet turned himself into the U.S. Embassy there. He was eventually assigned to the 1st Armored Division. As an antitank gunner in Tunisia, Millet earned the Silver Star after he jumped into a burning halftrack filled with ammunition, drove it away from allied soldiers and jumped to safety just before the vehicle exploded. He later shot down a German fighter plane with a vehicle-mounted machine gun.
As a sergeant serving in Italy during the war, his desertion to join the Canadian forces caught up to him. He was court-martialed, fined $52 and denied leave. A few weeks later he was awarded a battlefield commission. After the war, he joined the 103rd Infantry of the Maine National Guard, and attended college, until he was called back to active duty in 1949.
In addition to the Medal of Honor, Millett earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, two Legions of Merit and four Purple Hearts during his 35-year military career. After his retirement, he remained active in both national and local veterans groups from his Idyllwild, Calif., home.
His son, Staff Sgt John Morton Millett, was a member of the 101st Airborne Division returning from duty in the Sinai Dec. 12, 1985, when a charter plane crashed upon takeoff after stopping at Gander, Newfoundland. He was one of 256 Soldiers killed in the crash.
On Feb. 7, 1994, retired Col. Millet was honored with a ceremony on Hill 180, now located on Osan Air Base, South Korea. The ceremony became an annual one and the road running up the hill was named "Millet Road."
In June 2000, Millet returned to Seoul, South Korea, and served as keynote speaker at the Army's 225th Birthday Ball at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. All eight of the then-living Korean War Medal of Honor recipients attended the event.
This year, Millet served as the grand marshal of a Salute to Veterans parade, April 21 in Riverside, Calif. He died Nov. 14 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., of congestive heart failure.
Zero will be celebrating Valentines Day golfing in Palm Springs with Bobby Titcomb and friends, while Michelle goes on a ski trip. True.
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