The FReeper Foxhole - Military Related News in Review - July 14th, 2003

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[SAMWolf]

Yeah, Oregon just buried another one too. Seems we've been losing one a day for a while.

[SAMWolf]

No way! I wore Snippy the flatlander out. Had a full day but pushing Snippy up hills is too much like work. Been having a great time, we keep trying to see who can wear the other one out first. I won today. :-)

[Pukin Dog]

Thanks you guys. I'll stop by in the morning before I shove off. If I see a Frenchman over there, I'll pop him in the mouth for you.

[Soaring Feather]

Snippy did you see what SAM called you? Flatlander? Well, if I were you I would not wash another cooking pot!!! LOL

Glad you two are having a wonderful time. :-)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hey Sam, glad to know you are OK.

Good to see ya.

[SAMWolf]

Deal! If you only see one hit him twice, once from each of us. Otherwise try and find two. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Yep! Flatlanders make great pot washers!

We're really enjoying our time together. We've been doing 15 hour days so far and there's still so much to see and do.

Plans for tomorrow are the Evergreen Aircraft Museum in the morning and then just hanging out here the rest of the day, unless we get another case of wanderlust and decide to do something else on the spur of the moment.

[SAMWolf]

A little tired but not as tired as Snippy. :-)

I think she's trying to figure out how to get even for the "mountain climbing" we did today.

[SAMWolf]

SAM's in great shape!

Really, he had to push me up most of the steep grades. lol. Or drag me along. haha. I'm used to flat ground, not all this uphill climbing. And of course he had his Army boots on and I had tennis shoes so the rocks get slippery under the waterfalls but he made sure I didn't fall.

You don't have to worry about him!

I'll be in great shape by the time I get home.

[PhilDragoo]

"I call on the liberal media to get with the program and support our troops!"

"And that means you three, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw!"

"Who, us?"

"Damn straight, maggots! Who did you think I'm talking to!"

Staff Sgt. Terry L. Brown, with the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion places confiscated money into stacks after a house raid in Baghdad, Iraq, July 7, 2003. The 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion found the money as well as a small weapons cache during a raid to recover stolen artifacts from the Baghdad Museum. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Jacob H. Smith) (Released)

Note: The 25,000 liters of anthrax would fit in an eight-foot-ceilinged room ten by eleven feet--one shipping container, one truck, one buried septic tank!

Spc. Rivera with the 3rd Infantry Division and his platoon patrol the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, helping to maintain security and public safety, July 6, 2003. DoD photo by Spc. Derek Gaines, U.S. Army. (Released)

This is a man; this is what a man does for his country and his family.

This is a weasel. This is what a weasel does.

Sgt. Sondra Volles of the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, plays basketball with young girls during physical education class at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 5, 2003. Members of Coalition Joint Civil Military Operations Task Force deployed to Kabul, went to the school to teach the kids some fundementals on basketball and have a good time playing with the energetic youngsters. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Jeremy Colvin) (Released)

These are America's finest, making a better world, now, when it counts.

030213-N-0000N-002 New Orleans, La. (Feb. 13, 2003) -- The amphibious transport dock ship San Antonio (LPD 17) is under construction at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Avondale in New Orleans. San Antonio is scheduled for launching in July of this year and should be commissioned in 2005. U.S. Navy photo. (RELEASED) For more on the San Antonia-class LPDs, see our Fact File at www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-lpd.html

Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor siezed power in Liberia in a ruthless civil war that left an estimated 250,000 Liberians dead and thousands more serioudly wounded. Once in power Taylor has plundered the country's diamonds and timber resources, to the extent that the UN has imposed a total embargo on Liberian diamonds and timber. Taylor is also infamous for providing aid to RUF leader Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone, for which the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone has indicted him.

Jesse Jackson was Charles Taylor's paid lobbyist with Bill Clinton's blessing. Be very clear: we are hereby cleaning up another Clinton mess. Despite Democrats shrieking like so many fairies in Act-Up t-shirts in San Francisco, it's their mess. And Bush has established we won't be "blue-helmeted".

Bush, Annan: Possible American troops in Liberia not to be under U.N. control

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2003 – Any large-scale deployment of American troops to Liberia would not be under U.N. control, President George W. Bush said at the White House today.

"We would not be blue-helmeted," he said after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Instead, Bush continued, "we would be there to facilitate (an international force's entry) and then to leave."

Bush said American involvement would be in the form of assistance to the Economic Community of West African States. "It may require troops, but we don't know how many yet," he said.

The U.S. European Command deployed a Humanitarian Assistance Support Team of 35 military members to Liberia July 7 to assess military and humanitarian support requirements.

A Pentagon spokesman explained this team is comprised of experts in civil affairs, medical treatment, preventive medicine, contracting, civil engineering, public affairs, logistics and water purification. The HAST also includes 15 Marines for security.

[snippy_about_it]

OOPs. I was posting under SAM's sign on, forgot to switch to mine.


The above post of course is from me. :)

[snippy_about_it]

Pukin Dog, don't waste too much time chasing down frenchy to pop him one. lol. I'm sure he'd be running the other way!

Have a good time.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you for your post of news and comment today. I felt bad because I was slacking while on vacation but you made my day posting very appropriate news and comment.

[SAMWolf]

Evening PhilDragoo.

Excellent post today Phil. Loved your opening.

We would not be blue-helmeted

That would be the last straw for me. After signing CFR, tax "refunds" for people who don't pay taxes and doing nada on immigration putting US troops under UN command would be the killer.

[Darksheare]

It was in the article, turns out she 'probably' doesn't know him.
Sounds horrible to say it, but I am relieved it's no-one I know, and no-one she knows.

[snippy_about_it]

That's good. I understand the emotion though and it's normal for sure, you feel good that they are not someone you know but realizing that, you know they are still one of ours and it still hurts.

[Darksheare]

True, but still.
It sounds bad to say it like that.
But how the heck do you say something like that?