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| Iraq |
| Operation Marne Thunderbolt (Caddyshack Iraq) |
| 2008-01-09 |
| BAGHDAD – Coalition Force events in support of Operation Marne Thunderbolt continued to reduce the ability of al-Qaeda in Iraq operating in areas south of Baghdad Jan. 5 and 6. On the morning of Jan. 6, a structure rigged with explosives was reported to Soldiers from 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, currently attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Inf. Div. An air strike by a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet destroyed the structure with a 500-pound GBU-38 bomb. Quicker and more spectacular than the old iron ball swinging from a crane (safer for the operator too.) Later the same day, an air weapons team from the Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Inf. Div., observed a group of haystacks with an opening leading to an underground tunnel used by extremists. The helicopters destroyed the tunnel, making the tunnel system inoperable. Is Bill Murray busy? All these tunnels being found lately are just begging for the Carl Spackler touch. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #10 Maybe use something like ethylene oxide in the tunnel. It has a flammability limit of between 3% and 100%, so it brings enough oxygen with it to the party. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-01-09 23:19 |
| #9 Send libs in the tunnel. This way they don't scream. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-01-09 16:43 |
| #8 If you start putting kerosene, gasoline vapors, or propane down the tunnels, so that the fuel is dispersed--it works--the terrs will start taking civilians down the tunnels, as their buds did in VN. So, we switch to tear gas, run the folks out, separate the civilians from the terrs, and the libs start screaming about "chemical warfare". Happened in VN. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2008-01-09 16:10 |
| #7 Amen, and amen Patriot. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-01-09 13:59 |
| #6 Pump it full of kerosene and toss in a burning cigarette. Look for smoke coming up from other areas nearby. Listen for screams. Cruel? Yes. War is cruel. Fighting it any other way is only giving the advantage to the enemy. I know (or have known) several tunnel rats, plus a few "gray ghosts" - the guys that went into Laos to keep watch on the Ho Chi Minh superhighway network. VERY brave men! This country seems to still produce them in plentiful supply. Our only worry is to keep the liberals from denying them the opportunity to do what HAS to be done. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-01-09 13:57 |
| #5 I have to laugh... |
| Posted by: Carl 2008-01-09 13:40 |
| #4 But tunnels in Iraq would be much more primitive than those built in Vietnam. The post-2003 invasion tunnels, yes, Anonymoose. But not the ones built for Saddam Hussein, and I seem to recall he built an awful lot of tunnels. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-01-09 12:12 |
| #3 I actually got to meet an (at the time), senior US Army Major, who in his youth had been a tunnel rat. Tunnel rats are only needed for elaborate underground sites. That is, they not only have multiple entrances, but are designed in such a way that a large explosion on an entrance will just close it, not damage the contents of the cave. Since air dropped munitions of the time were inaccurate, cave entrances were often destroyed with ground charges of conventional explosives. But tunnels in Iraq would be much more primitive than those built in Vietnam. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-09 08:40 |
| #2 propane/oxy and a match |
| Posted by: desert eagle 2008-01-09 06:42 |
| #1 Operation Marne Thunderbolt (Caddyshack Iraq) Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Inf. Div., observed a group of haystacks with an opening leading to an underground tunnel used by extremists. Sounds like a job for Tunnel Rats, In order to fit down into the small narrow tunnels these soldiers were chosen from a pool of willing men who were small in stature. But let everyone know that each and every soldier and Marine Tunnel Rat who went down into those black enemy tunnels had gigantic weavos inorder to do the job. RVN. I can honestly say It is not a job I would ever volunteer for. "Let's Use TNT Sarge", would be my suggestion. LOL! |
| Posted by: RD 2008-01-09 01:38 |