Posted on 02/13/2015 7:57:40 AM PST by McGruff
We started yesterday when it was first revealed that ISIS had taken the town next to the air base.
We’re using Isaiah 54:17 - “No weapon formed against you shall prosper” .. and all our prayers obviously had a large effect: “Coalition force were several km from the attack and at no stage were they under direct threat from this action”, 8 suicide bombers .. 8 DEAD.
This was really a great training mission for the Iraqi troops .. it showed THE IRAQI’s HOW THEY can take out the enemy BEFORE IT GETS CLOSE ENOUGH TO HURT THEM.
Our Marines are just brilliant (as always) ..!!!!!!
Sounds like the Marines got some live target practice.
Bravo !
Just remember - there are no ground troops in Iraq.
It will not become a Khe Sanh but I worry about the muzzie troops that the marines are training.
How well can they be trusted, what connections do they have with ISIS.
The marines are training muzzies to fight muzzies. Which is which?
Pork Chop Hill................
Actually, I posted this earlier: “Coalition force were several km from the attack and at no stage were they under direct threat from this action”, 8 suicide bombers .. 8 DEAD.
This was really a great training mission for the Iraqi troops .. it showed THE IRAQI’s HOW THEY can take out the enemy BEFORE IT GETS CLOSE ENOUGH TO HURT THEM.
Our Marines are just brilliant (as always) ..!!!!!!
...And by the "enemy" you mean us conservatives.
I wonder if Obama set these Marines up? I wouldn’t doubt it.
With the way Benghazi played out, you can't trust this administration with anything like this, and of course, the enemedia who covers for them.
CGato
I heard yesterday that IS seized al-Baghdadi. This is the very focal point of IA and they lost it. Yet, the news is that all is well. These are primary IA objectives: Hit - Haditha, which is closely associated w/ Ramadi - Fallujah. If al-Baghadidi is lost, right next to the major airbase, then, well, it’s great that eight bombers attacked the base and were defeated, but...
set up? Well, If they had been ordered to abandon their vehicles and disable their weapons as with the Yemen embassy then you would have to be right. Someplace along the way our Marines are going to get sick of stupid orders-————Semper Fi
I might have to read a book about this man!
Heard stories but nothing in detail
I am using the derogatory name DAESH when they’re talking about the Islamic State in Iraq and as-Shām (commonly known as ISIS) because it pisses them off.
Please join me, everyone!
His courage, regard for his men and strong support for his NCOs made this retired Senior NCO a big fan!
> The Tet Offensive ...................
Tet is next week, February 19th.
Forget Khe Sanh. Not even close in any relationship.
KS was an interdiction and intelligence base the US put out in the area below the DMZ in So. Vietnam to attack NVA infiltration forces.
That the NVA thought they could take it and Giap admitted that is was one of his greatest military mistakes. He lost thousands of top troops and never got inside the actual base.
The base was defended by not only American forces but also top notch SVN soldiers who held part of the perimeter defense system.
And don’t believe that we lost dozens of planes resupplying the camp. Dan Rather and others, esp. CBS continually looped to one picture of a C-123 that got hit and crashed on the runway.
We did lose some helicopters and fighters, but it was never anything like what the leftist MSM tried to report.
Our men fought bravely and literally destroyed a whole NVA division in terms of killed and wounded. If you watch the famous B-52 rain of bombs (a literal curtain of raining bombs) from one of the raids, you will understand.
NVA soldiers died by the hundreds or thousands in their trenches and attack formations when hit by the B-52s, F-4’s etc.
The Iraqi base is out in the open, not in a densely vegetation populated jungle. In Iraq you have a clear field of fire, good weather for air strikes and B-52 or B-1 runs, as well as for the wonderful A-10s.
Plus we have laser sighting abilities that didn’t exist in Nam.
The greatest threat to this training base is Barack Obama, not ISIS.
You have to wonder if these dudes have more than one tactical plan. They started the offensive yesterday with suicide bombers blowing up the police station, today they tried it at the base.
Well, they succeeded in the suicide part...
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