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At end of training, Marines say Mongols ready for duty in Iraq
estripes ^ | 9.28.03 | Fred Zimmerman,

Posted on 09/26/2003 8:21:45 AM PDT by swarthyguy

U.S. Marines put Mongolian Armed Forces to the test last week during the final training phase of Khaan Quest ’03 in Five Hills, Mongolia.

First Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment Marines set up a simulated logistics base for Mongolian forces to run from Sept. 13-15, according to a Marine Corps news release. They were also put through a mobility exercise to prepare for a February deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“We have specifically been showing the Mongolians how to do vehicle checkpoints and personnel checkpoints,” battalion operations chief Master Sgt. Robert Lowery said in the release. “We have shown them how to establish a checkpoint, set up a checkpoint and how to conduct a checkpoint.”

Mongolian forces were subsequently given a chance to demonstrate what they had learned during the three days of field practice.

“It was obvious that [the Mongolians] paid attention during the classroom portion,” Lowery said in the release. “They went from A to Z in a short period of time. And within that period of time, they excelled at what they did.

“Everything we taught them, they would practice on their own and the last day, when we had our exercises, they handled themselves very well. In my professional opinion, once they get on the ground [in Iraq], they will be able to conduct themselves as a professional army.”

In their training, Mongolian forces ran into roadblocks and ambushes, exercise officer-in-charge Maj. John Osborne Jr. said in the release. He added the challenges tested their ability to work as a team.

“The mobility exercise is meant to draw several of the training aspects together as far as command and control, and units supporting each other,” Osborne said in the release.

Mongolian troops also took an embarkation class as well as a C-130 familiarization flight.

Staff Sgt. Marylyn Sabol, 3rd Transportation Support Battalion, 3rd Force Service Support Group embarkation specialist, taught the class, which included general C-130 characteristics, the release said. She then showed Mongolian forces a generic load plan and demonstrated how to build an Air Force pallet for embarkation.

“The first group that went was very limited on the training they received,” she said in the release. “I was only able to train them as I was doing the embarking. This second group was able to get physical training, and they are picking it up so fast. They will be able to do it 100 percent without our help next time.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: genghiskhan; goodnews; jointexercises; marines; mongolia; rebuildingiraq
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To: swarthyguy
Holy moly the Mongols are coming!
21 posted on 09/26/2003 3:22:29 PM PDT by Dog (How is my posting? Call 1-888-ITS-GOOD)
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To: Norse
Are you joking?
They commited the first genocide of Christians
in 1914.
22 posted on 09/26/2003 3:53:47 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rush agrees with me 98.5 % of the time.)
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To: swarthyguy
Wild bunch. Last time the Mongols were in Baghdad they painted the town red.
23 posted on 09/26/2003 3:57:52 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: swarthyguy; Ragtime Cowgirl
"GENGHIS KHAN" - The Movie

Starring OMAR SHARIF & SOPHIA LOREN


"GENGHIS KHAN" - The Reality

Starring Mongolia SOLDIERS working for the Freedom of Others

Simply Amazing.

24 posted on 09/26/2003 4:10:19 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
25 posted on 09/26/2003 5:12:51 PM PDT by windchime
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To: swarthyguy
Where are the horses in all this?

How can there be Mongols without horses?

And bows and arrows, lots and lots of arrows.

26 posted on 09/26/2003 5:16:27 PM PDT by LibKill (Father Darwin has a sense of humor but no mercy whatsoever.)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; Black Agnes; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; DKNY; ...
ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

27 posted on 09/26/2003 5:23:20 PM PDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
28 posted on 09/26/2003 7:22:25 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
>Are you joking?
>They commited the first genocide of Christians
>in 1914.

Yes but that doesn't mean you can just disregard their successes over hundreds of years. The O.E. was a well oiled machine that worked very well, better than any other
29 posted on 09/26/2003 8:44:14 PM PDT by Norse
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To: RussianConservative
>Ottman? Haha, they loose all 5 war to Russia.

You're lucky you fought them at opportune times for Russia
30 posted on 09/26/2003 8:44:52 PM PDT by Norse
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; swarthyguy

A Mongolian servicemember closely observes the characteristics of the M-203 grenade launcher during the second phase static display portion of Khaan Quest '03, a bilateral and interoperability exercise between Marines and the Mongolian Armed Forces. (Photo by Cpl. Michael D. Darbouze).

Coalition dittos.

31 posted on 09/26/2003 8:54:19 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Cronos
The Xiongnu ...or the Huns as we call them.

Hungary gets it's name from them. IMO, they became the Hakka who migrated to Southern (Guongdong) China. Also, these people were the hardest hit by the SARS outbreak

32 posted on 09/26/2003 8:59:43 PM PDT by blam
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
A multi-cultural Coalition of the willing and able ~ Bump!
33 posted on 09/27/2003 6:49:44 AM PDT by blackie
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To: archy
Budding Gurkhas BUmp.
34 posted on 09/27/2003 9:24:00 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: LN2Campy
Baghdad NEVER really recovered from the last time it was visited by the Mongols.

Can't we just have them patrol Kirkuk instead???

"Very well. But it is far from Damascus..."

--T.E. Lawrence.

Next stop: Mecca!

-archy-/-

35 posted on 09/27/2003 9:27:52 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: swarthyguy
The New Sack of Baghad by the Crusaders and the Mongols!

And you thought you'd seen anger and rage in the Arab world.

*****

Budding Gurkhas BUmp.

The Afghanis were not real happy to learn that the infidel Gurkhas now working there include both Jainists who follow the way of their Nepalese forebears, as well as those exposed to the British who've joined the Church of England. But the muslums learned to be at least pretend real respect toward them. I expect the Iraqis will develop some similar sentiments.

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather to your bosom his wives and his daughters.

-- Temujin, the Genghis Khan, ca. 1226


36 posted on 09/27/2003 9:35:28 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Bedford Forrest
Has anyone told these Mongol types that we want Sodom Hussein alive, not all mushy in a leather sack? Talk about sending in the hard core!!!! To make it really sweet, how about a battalion of Ghurkas.

Ayo Gorkhali! Per the pic in #36, they're being used as a contract security force for essential US communication facilities and other interesting taskings. And they're busy with a counterinsurgency campaign against upstart Maoists at home, but aside from some Gurkhas serving with the initial British forces that helped remove Saddam Hussein from power, there are also some involved with the follow-on securing of the country and the nation rebuilding effort.

Very fun guys to work around, though serious when it's work time. And about as good as what they do anywhere in the world, or in their own neck of the woods. And the thought of playing bukashi with Saddam's head in a leather sack would be as great a sport for the Gurkhas as it is for the Afghani and Mongol horsemen. Some of those Gurkhas are pretty good riders, too.


37 posted on 09/27/2003 9:54:16 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: swarthyguy
And you thought you'd seen anger and rage in the Arab world.

Just wait until they find out what the muezzins in the mosques are going to be replaced with....


38 posted on 09/27/2003 11:16:05 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Norse
Smart general choose when fight. Also, seige of Viena lifted by Polish army, but third of Polish army Russian soldier.
39 posted on 09/27/2003 7:56:41 PM PDT by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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To: blam
Thanks for the link!
40 posted on 09/28/2003 5:25:08 AM PDT by Cronos (W2004)
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