OBAMA: You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq.
OBAMA: And as a consequence, they didn’t have enough ammunition, they didn’t have enough humvees. They were actually capturing Taliban weapons, because it was easier to get Taliban weapons than it was for them to get properly equipped by our current commander in chief.
OBAMA: Now, that’s a consequence of bad judgment. And you know, the question is, on the critical issues that we face right now, who’s going to show the judgment to lead? And I think that on every critical issue that we’ve seen in foreign policy over the last several years — going into Iraq originally, I didn’t just oppose it for the sake of opposing it. I said this is going to distract us from Afghanistan; this is going to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment; it’s going to cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives and overstretch our military. And I was right.
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Was the captain referring to the past when he was a lieutenant in charge of the platoon? It would still be unusual for a platoon to split up unless it wasn’t an infantry platoon.
I heard that and wondered if he was more upset at our lack of equipment or at the fact that they are taking equipment from the Taliban.
I thought it was kind of weird how he worded his statement.
I’m not military, but aren’t you supposed to take their weapons whenever possible?
Makes sense to me.
There is good reason why our soldiers might be purposely armed with AKs. The sound signature of the M16 and AKs are different and sometimes you want to fool the enemy. Special ops might do this, so might platoons going deep. It confuses the enemy, they think it’s friendlies, not our guys who are trained in operating as a team, regardless the weapons.
Many times our guys have gone embed status with other friendly troops, would only make sense to use the weapon type and ammo from their supply chain, unless of course they need a B-52 to help out.
Plenty of times on TV over the years Special Ops guys would have AKs ... you could easily tell if you knew what to look for — Which liberals don’t, so the lies work with them. Our soldiers are weapons trained with AKs for emergencies and for missions.
Obama is just a typical Democrat liar trying to act like he knows something. Democrats do this all the time.
Obama ... it’s YOUR job as a Senator that our military are funded and equiped. What legislation have you submitted?
Didn’t Obama vote against funding the troops? Genuine question, not sarcasm.
A good question for this bozo is to describe the structure of an Army corp from the top down to see how fit he is to be CIC on ‘day one’.
“I’ve heard from an Army captain”
Obama has access to the New York Times unnamed sources too??
Ill equiped Obama, resorts to using worn out Soviet commentary.
Maybe Obama was talking to a al Quaeda Army Captain.
Obama Oexcreta. he wouldn’t know a rifle platoon from a tobacco spitoon.
Here is what Obama advisor David Axlerod had to say:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Mjc4MDlhY2VjNmJiOWU1MDg5NTk4ZDZmODg0NTM5YjM=
AXELROD: “That was a discussion that a captain in the military had with our staff, and he asked that that be passed along to Senator Obama.”
Rush is on it now. Bo Snerdly just gave a great commentary asking Obama to prove it.
U.S. soldiers are chopping off heads now?
When did Obama join the 911 Truthers?
Silly me for asking a question - how, Sir, did the intrepid Army Captain in question capture said Taliban weapons if he was, as you say, not properly equipped for the mission?
And another silly question. When we capture enemy materials - if it is in servicable condition - should we not put said equipment and weaponry into the hands of OUR forces? Just because we re-use captured equipment and weapons does not necessarily mean we have a shortage of our own. Additionally, and I hate to admit it, but I know more than one red blooded Amrican soldier who, given the choice, will carry an AK over the M-16.
Last bit - and maybe times have changed - but as I recall Captains are generally a company grade officer, and platoon commanders are 1LT/2LT. Am I mistaken? I caught this detail and my BS radar went off.
Assuming this is true, who’s been blocking troop funding?
Democrats...
Thank God for the Internet. You guys exposed this BS for what it is. It shows both Hillary! and O’Bambi for the ignoramuses they are. God help us all.