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The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of 73 EASTING - 1991 - Mar. 10th, 2003
http://www.ciar.org/~ttk/mbt/mbt/mbt.at-desert-storm.bourque.ht ^ | Stephen A. Bourque

Posted on 03/10/2003 5:34:25 AM PST by SAMWolf

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To: SAMWolf
During annual training there is nothing funnier than witnessing a blue on blue engagement when they had the opfor between them somehow disappear...

During actual combat there is nothing more frustrating, senseless, and demoralizing than a blue on blue incident.

Not much can be done for it, unfortunately, except more training and expecting the worst.
41 posted on 03/10/2003 11:04:50 AM PST by Darksheare (<===The modern day French all have grandfathers that said "Frauleine" to their grandmothers.)
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To: Pippin
Howdy Ms Pippin. You caught me just before I have to bug out of the Foxhole and hit the books. Good to see you!
42 posted on 03/10/2003 11:05:02 AM PST by Jen (Rally for America - March 22-23 --- Support our Troops * Stand up to Terrorists * Liberate Iraq)
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To: AntiJen
Never watched any of the Survivor shows.
43 posted on 03/10/2003 11:12:34 AM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: Pippin
Hi Pippin!
44 posted on 03/10/2003 11:14:12 AM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: SAMWolf
The Republican Guard did put up a real fight. It's too bad that the reminder of the Iraqi mechanized forces got away to Basra. As you say, the RG will probably fight even harder this time because all their priviledges come from Saddam, and now the object is getting rid of Saddam and his tribe.
45 posted on 03/10/2003 11:19:22 AM PST by xJones
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To: SAMWolf; cavtrooper21
PING for the 2/1 Cav! Scouts Out!
Tnx, Cav!
46 posted on 03/10/2003 12:09:54 PM PST by Vic3O3 (Texan-to-be...at least there's CCW!)
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To: SAMWolf

47 posted on 03/10/2003 12:21:54 PM PST by JustPiper (US before UN- Un'move'ick is right)
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To the honorable United States Military Personnel who might read this thread today, be it known to you, both retired and actively engaged fellow citizens of America, we the people are with you. We support you. Let none of the naysaying so well publicized by the servile media trouble you. Our voices are not posted on television and in the print media, but we do support you. We know well that without your professional efforts, American children could be learning German, Japanese, or Russian as the language they would be commanded to speak, or forced to bow toward Mecca daily. That we have a choice is the blessing directly received by your brave work against the forces of evil. May God bless your efforts and keep you to return home, in defense of this nation so blessed under God.
48 posted on 03/10/2003 12:22:03 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: SAMWolf
I was with 502nd MI, 3rd Squadron, Lighting Troop during the ground campaign. A big Toujours Prets for any cav troopers out there!
49 posted on 03/10/2003 1:49:37 PM PST by ishmac
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To: ishmac
BTW, does anyone know how many stars L.D. Holder has now? Col. Holder was the embodiment of a soldier and a warrior. Hope he's involved in the coming war--our boys will be in good hands
50 posted on 03/10/2003 1:54:20 PM PST by ishmac
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To: ishmac
Last rank I can find for him is Lt. General.
51 posted on 03/10/2003 1:59:03 PM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: SAMWolf

Today's classic warship, USS Aloha (SP-317)

Aloha class steam yacht
Displacement. 659 t.
Lenght. 218'
Beam. 35'6"Draft. 18'
Complement. 86
Armament. 2 4", 2 3"

Aloha, a bark-rigged steam yacht, was built in 1910 at Quincy, Massachusetts. She cruised extensively in northern European and Mediterranean waters until the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 put an end to such pleasurable activities. When the United States entered the conflict in April 1917 she was leased to the U.S. Navy, which placed her in commission as USS Aloha (SP-317). She was commissioned on 5 June 1917, Lieutenant H. R. Swift, USNRF, in command.

She served for the rest of the war as flagship to the Inspector of Naval Districts, East Coast, Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow, supporting his extensive travels as he carried out his mission of ensuring the effectiveness of the Navy's shore facilities from Louisiana to New England.

USS Aloha was decommissioned in late January 1919 and returned to her owner. She voyaged around the World in 1921-1922 and visited Europe and the Mediterranean several times during 1925-1930. Following nearly three decades of peacetime pleasure cruising and wartime inspection duty, Aloha was scrapped in 1938.

52 posted on 03/10/2003 2:53:33 PM PST by aomagrat (IYAOYAS)
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To: aomagrat
I find it amazing that the US Navy was using a steam yacht in WWI.
53 posted on 03/10/2003 3:13:34 PM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: AntiJen
bump
54 posted on 03/10/2003 5:30:46 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: ishmac

The 65th Colonel of the Regiment L.D. Holder
55 posted on 03/10/2003 6:19:13 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
Evening PhilDragoo.


56 posted on 03/10/2003 6:20:35 PM PST by SAMWolf (The French are cordially invited to come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air)
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To: ishmac
RSOI - Its Purpose, Definition, and Challenges

"Today's leaders and planners must understand Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration (RSOI) as a part of deployment and employment. Contingency offensives will differ substantially. They will tend toward bare sufficiency because the Army will be smaller and have fewer "troops available." The need for speed and size constraints of strategic deployments will also affect the nature of force-projection offensives. RSOI will continue directly into the offensive in many cases. Commanders of attacking forces will, therefore, have to make hard decisions of timing and will be forced to weigh greater risks than those faced by the commanders of larger forward-deployed forces. Among those are the risks of attacking too soon before the full potential of the deploying force is developed and of waiting too long, thus allowing the original aggressor to solidify his defense. The bold, decisive, risktakers, idealized by Army doctrine, will have to get even bolder (wiser, too, in all likelihood) to effectively build and track combat power."

--LTG L. D. Holder, former Commander,

Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth

57 posted on 03/10/2003 6:25:31 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: SAMWolf
Apres Baghdad, Paris.


58 posted on 03/10/2003 6:28:36 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: SAMWolf

Veto this, eh?
59 posted on 03/10/2003 6:40:14 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: SAMWolf
Odd, how history repeats it's self.

5.56mm

60 posted on 03/10/2003 6:45:07 PM PST by M Kehoe
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