Cargo planes swarm north

New York Daily News ^ | 4/01/03 | GREG GITTRICH

[jrlc]

Much better off without Turkey.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #1

So how big will be the coalition presence in the N. Iraq ? An armored brigade ?

[Dog]

Northern Front bump...

[Just mythoughts]

This is wonderful news. The liberals and generals are about ready to eat some crow.

[Dog]

Do the math.... 10 planes every hour for 24 hours....maybe bigger than a brigade....my guess is this is the unit out of Germany..

[goldstategop]

We could put in a full equipped division within a few weeks, maybe a month.

[George W. Bush]

The Turk(ie)s slowed us but didn't stop us. We're going to finish the original war plan.

[libertylover]

He said his unit of about 30 men slept in muddy burrows on a hillside. Breakfast was tea and crusty bread. Lunch was rice and a single cucumber to share between two soldiers. There was no dinner. U.S. bombs had killed at least five of his comrades, and about the same number were wounded. "There is no medical help," he added. "They are left to die."

Hopefully, they won't have much fight left in them by the time we finish the build-up. I still think a lot of these guys just want to live long enough to surrender.

[MJY1288]

My guess is that this is the Division that was originally going to move in from Turkey, I believe it's the 4th Armored Division (High Tech)

Arse Whippin Time

[ChadGore]

Re:

The steady stream of planes included C-17 Globemasters, big enough to carry an Abrams tank, and C-130s.

Isn't a C-130 another transport plane? Can you get a C130 inside a C17 ? I doubt it!

[ChadGore]

7th corp ? kewl! They were "the fist" in Desert Storm 1

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #10

So what is the one disembarking on Kuwaiti shore ? A bogus 4th ID or some other division ?

[sit-rep]

He don't talk much...just posts the threads.

[dennisw]

This could be equipement recently offloaded at Kuwait City then flown to our new Northern airstrip.

[jimtorr]

my guess is this is the unit out of Germany..

Yes, this seems like about the right time for them. I recall the stories from Germany in late January and early February about how all of the Rhine River heavy freight barges had been hired to move heavy equipment north to the sea. There were also reports of trains moving north to the sea filled with tanks and heavy equipment. There was a lot of talk about maybe the heavy divisions never returning to Germany, like after Gulf War 1.

[libertylover]

The steady stream of planes included C-17 Globemasters, big enough to carry an Abrams tank, and C-130s.

Makes it sound like a C-17 can carry one Abrams tank and at least two C-130s at the same time. Now that is one big airplane!

[MJY1288]

I believe they are being flown to the North, Would make no sense to move the entire Division by land

[dennisw]

Screw U Turkey. Last night Ralph Peters said it was a blessing in disguise not to go through Turkey. The re-supply lines would have been over mountains...... Far dicer than what we have now.

 Plus maybe would have been sabotaged and protested against by Turkey's homegrown Jihadists and Muslomaniacs.

[Dog]

This is the 1st ID...see post 16 jimtorr has it right.