101st Pushes Toward Baghdad

Leaf Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee/Ft. Campbell, Kentucky) ^ | March 27, 2003 | CHANTAL ESCOTO and TODD DEFEO

[dmcg_98]

SOMEWHERE IN IRAQ -- Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade set off in a blaze of loud rock music Monday from Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.

The 1st Brigade combat team on Wednesday was in a convoy of about 400 vehicles on its way north. Behind them is the 2nd Brigade. The 3rd Brigade left earlier and is farther along on a journey that many say will lead them all to Baghdad.

[YaYa123]

Thanks so much for local coverage of the 101st. Much appreciated!

[ladtx]

My son is amongst them. God speed boys.

[peeve23]

We Have a Rendezvous With Destiny! Air Assault, Sir!

There are so many ways to use this division that's it's simply wrong to say they'll do X or Y or Z. They could be doing anything at any given moment.

[Cagey]

My son is amongst them. God speed boys.

God speed, indeed.

[peeve23]

The 101st could be used to secure the Military Airport on the Northwest of Baghdad and the International Airport on the west southwest ONCE THE SEIGE RING TIGHTENS.

We could fly our OWN supplies in and stage our own weapons systems right under their noses. It would humiliate them.

[WhiskeyPapa]

The 101st patch traces its lineage to a regiment in the Iron Brigade and their mascot eagle named "Old Abe".

GET SOME, 101!

Walt

[aristeides]

First Brigade was the unit Sgt. Akbar tried to decapitate.

[peeve23]

Does this show the ease with which major supply routes ... roadway, rail, water... could be shut off throughout the country and well as leading into Baghdad?

[Starrgaizr]

If they blow the dams, it just slows things down a bit. I am sure that there are contingency plans. This would not be a total surprise.

[peeve23]

I was thinking more of OUR controlling any resupply coming to Baghdad. But blowing dam is a temporary thing. The water level goes down on a predictable basis.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I want to know exactly what loud music they were blaring. Was it "Bad boys, bad boys, what 'ya gonna do, what 'ya gonna do when they come for you?"

[nicko]

Do you still have your "Blue Book"? the song is in the back...(asked as Air Assault coin "drops" on the floor)

[IGOTMINE]

What is your defintion of "shut off"? Can convoys be ambushed by irregular troops...could we lose vehicles and personnel moving supplies up? Absolutely. Those lines of communication and supply go through some wicked ass terrain. The odd Iraqi unit may choose to pop up and sit on a road for a while, but they won't "shut off" supplies. They'll be a messy speed bump once discovered.

Perhaps you should take your negative waves back to DU?

[peeve23]

Read #6, #9, & #11 and rethink.

Who in the world right now thinks that Iraq has the ability to cut off supply routes for allied forces? Perhaps you do. I don't.

So....the point is how easily WE could CUT OFF SUPPLIES to Baghdad and force it to its knees.

[peeve23]

I definitely owe you a beer. My coin is in some drawer someplace....I'm sure I still got a couple of them. It's just that I couldn't grab them quickly.

[Grampa Dave]

May God protect him and his friends. God Bless you.

[IGOTMINE]

I think I misread your post. Apology offered.

For the sort of war Saddam is conducting, I suspect that he has supply caches all over the place for the Feyedeen. That will suffice, for a while, to run a guerilla/terror type campaign. The Republican Guard won't be consuming much in the way of supplies, since their static. Wait, I was wrong there, too. They'll be using body bags up at the cyclic rate because our air is gonna rip them apart.

[TLBSHOW]

As I said on another thread...

This is 2 deaths that never had to happen, but because Islam is Peace to the blind there was 2 deaths here and more to come. What will it take for the blinders to come off people?

[Starrgaizr]

What do you suppose will happen to all the chem weapons? I worry that post-Saddam, our military government and an Iraqi transition government will face chem attacks from Saddam irregulars. Also, those shells can be spirited away and off to who knows where.