Division adjusts to hit Iraq from south

Washington Times ^ | 3/26/03 | Guy Taylor

[kattracks]

FORT HOOD, Texas

[FreedomPoster]

If they're out of Ft. Hood, they may be infantry, but they're a heavy Mech Inf division. Heavy on the M1's and Bradleys.

[doodad]

And desert trained. My Dad got bit by a brown recluse at Ft. Hood on manuevers training to take the Saudi oil fields back in the '70s.

[xkaydet65]

This is crying over spilled milk, but i repeat that the moment Turkey hinted at denial of passage the 4ID should have immediately been routed to Kuwait.Playing these diplomatic games has cost time and it may cost lives.1st MEF is as fine a light infantry division as exists, but to ask it to do the same job as 3ID is very poor strategy.Perhaps it would have been better to exchange 1st MEF with the Brits. Add the 82nd's brigade to the Brits as extra infantry and that would have put two heavy divisions in line aon the road to Baghdad. Or give 1st MEF some Challengers to augment their limited Abrams units.. This is armchair posturing, but I find it frustrating tosee us go to war living on the edge.

While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam? We have no attack zones, no attack locations etc. Didn't we learn anything from the days we risked planes and crew to attack truck parks while ships unloaded military supplies in Haiphong without so much as an air raid warning.?

[Larry Lucido]

And desert trained. My Dad got bit by a brown recluse at Ft. Hood

But, I thought the media told us that U.S. troops were unprepared for hot deserts, extremely cold winters, high mountains, etc., etc., etc. After all, we don't have any of that in this country.

/sarcasm

[Coop]

While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam?

Not even remotely. Quit your whining.

[KantianBurke]

don't mind Coop. He's a mindless shill. As for your comment, I wish I could dismiss it as easily as the drone did. Straightjacking the airforce target list, putting military strategy under PC guidlines and trying to play liberator when the only reason we should be there is to eliminate WMD, all that makes me a bit uneasy.

[cyncooper]

While I'm venting does anyon else have a sense of deja vu to LBJ' micromanaging of the air campaign in Nam?

What color is the sky in your world?

[RugerM77]

>>>This is crying over spilled milk, but i repeat that the moment Turkey hinted at denial of passage the 4ID should have immediately been routed to Kuwait<<<<

I agree 100%-To carry it a little further-As the 4th was being moved for the South-Another Unit, possibly either of the 2 divisions from Europe could have been gotten ready for a Turkey front in case it became available.

[aBootes]

The interesting thing is the line about being the Army's only "fully digitized" division. It will be interesting to see how they perform.