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US forces now on the ground in Ukraine
American Military News ^ | 11/1/22 | Ryan Morgan

Posted on 11/02/2022 6:48:14 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

U.S. military personnel are now on the ground in Ukraine, keeping track of and inspecting weapons the U.S. has shipped to Ukrainian forces, a senior defense official announced during a Pentagon background briefing on Monday. These U.S. personnel are some of the first the Pentagon has acknowledged have entered Ukraine since Russia launched its large scale invasion of the country in February.

The senior defense official who spoke on background during an official Pentagon event, said, “U.S. personnel have recently resumed on-site inspections to assess weapon stocks in country whenever and wherever the security conditions allow.” The official said “the return of our defense attaché and Office of Defense Cooperation personnel in country has allowed us to resume this critical function.”

The U.S. Defense attaché for Ukraine is U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Garrick Harmon.

The Biden administration ordered U.S. troops out of Ukraine in February just days before Russia launched its invasion. The Associated Press reported the administration did return some troops to provide security at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv earlier this year.

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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Sounds to me like another Pedo Joe fustercluck . . .


21 posted on 11/02/2022 7:01:10 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Everyone at Pentagon should be fired.


22 posted on 11/02/2022 7:01:17 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Blue Highway

Well that too

But Im talking about the daily count of our dead in Iraq etc during the Bush years which disappeared when Obama was in the WH ...

Remember that ???


23 posted on 11/02/2022 7:06:39 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: freeandfreezing
Even CBS added the weapons were being diverted.

From Breitbart:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/14/western-weapons-in-ukraine-being-sold-on-via-encrypted-messaging-app-report/

Miliary-grade weaponry in Ukraine is allegedly being sold on to international buyers on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, including some hardware made in the United States.

Weapons that have been allegedly collected in Ukraine during the country’s ongoing war with Russia have been put up for sale on Telegram channels, including various kinds of automatic rifles and small arms.

Weapons said to be for sale include not just Ukrainian-origin arms such as old Soviet-era AK-47 rifles, but also American-made rifles like the M16 and the M4, along with other NATO member-origin firearms like the ARX 160 A1 manufactured by the Italian weapons company Beretta, newspaper Il Giornale reports.

Is there any screwup that Biden regime has committed that you won't defend?

24 posted on 11/02/2022 7:09:30 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
NO!!!!
25 posted on 11/02/2022 7:09:50 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Kennedy sent ‘advisors’ to Vietnam in 1961 ..


26 posted on 11/02/2022 7:10:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Where will this end? Not sure I can face the answer.


27 posted on 11/02/2022 7:13:17 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: granite

There arent any Rules of Engagement

Theyre whatever Joe says day to day

and its a moving feast for the Democrats ...

Heads they win Tails we lose ...

You know the game ...


28 posted on 11/02/2022 7:13:39 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

When the weapons started arriving pro Russian FReepers went bananas demanding inventory audits of all the hardware and complained endlessly about the black market. Well now they got what they wanted.


29 posted on 11/02/2022 7:14:49 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Churchillspirit

It’s not good for anybody on this forum, regardless of where the “truth” lies.


30 posted on 11/02/2022 7:15:50 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Kennedy sent ‘advisors’ to Vietnam in 1961 ..”

Slava Ukraini!

“On to Crimea, we need our land back!”(Sarcasm)


31 posted on 11/02/2022 7:16:35 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What a crock, don’t you read FR?

Elements of the 101st replaced elements of the 82nd Airborne at V Corps European headquarters and some of them are currently in Romania, and elements of the 101st have been to Europe a number of times since WWII, the 1976 reforger for instance.


32 posted on 11/02/2022 7:17:15 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Rummyfan

Vietnam thoughts come to mind - slow build up then too .

O’Biden wants a war with Russia - dead serious stuff happening on the world stage.


33 posted on 11/02/2022 7:18:11 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: EvilCapitalist
I don’t care how many wars the Rats get us involved in, I’m voting against them.

Anyone no the score in this regard, Rats vs neocon RINOS.

I am guess that the rats are way ahead since warmongering has only come lately to the Republicans who used to mostly try to stay out of wars.

34 posted on 11/02/2022 7:19:15 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: unclebankster

President Truman, President Eisenhower, and President Kennedy all had advisors in Vietnam, it took 13 years (1950-1963) before JFK suddenly sent in 16,000 troops in 1963.


35 posted on 11/02/2022 7:19:44 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I am an oldster. My parents survived WW1; WW11; the cold war; recessions.

I can only hope that future generations will conquer their own challenges.

Too many friends with grandchildren to think otherwise.

36 posted on 11/02/2022 7:22:13 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

American advisors are only there in a noncombat role.

Sorry that was a headline from 1961.


37 posted on 11/02/2022 7:25:14 PM PDT by Tupelo (Don't under estimate the Republicans ability to f*** things up)
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To: katie didit

See this Katie?


38 posted on 11/02/2022 7:27:26 PM PDT by sport
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To: granite

“What are the ROE?”

Who cares?

We must protect our Ukrainian ally.(See the US Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership)

The Russian orks must be driven out of the Ukrainian Shire....back to Russian Morder.....they go.

After that we dismember Russian Morder into little tiny pieces, so they don’t attack their neighbors again.(Sarcasm)


39 posted on 11/02/2022 7:27:51 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The U.S. does not control the airspace and it is a stupid move to put these good folks in such a situation. I fear missile attacks; perhaps hypersonic.


40 posted on 11/02/2022 7:28:11 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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