Posted on 03/06/2017 4:38:04 PM PST by gandalftb
After months of planning and deliberations, the 75th Ranger Regiment has been deployed to Syria to participate in the war against ISIS as the coalition closes in on the so-called caliphate’s capital city of Raqqa. Yesterday, the first images emerged of Stryker armored vehicles on their way to Manbij. This comes weeks after Rangers deployed to theater with their Strykers and elements of the 75th Ranger Regiment had been passing through Kurdistan.
By looking at the call sign tag on the back of the Stryker, it is evident that this is 3rd Ranger Battalion out of Fort Benning, Georgia,
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If we were sending 50,000 men, this might be so. But I’d remember, these are very small sized forces. 1,000, 2,500. Not that many.
Trump campaigned that he’d fight ISIS, anyone should have given their 2 cents back then.
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