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2006-10-12 Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2006-10-12 06:22|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Water-borne infantry is the Marines' function; are they going to let the Army onto their turf (so to speak)?

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-10-12 08:14|| 2006-10-12 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Somehow I think we should be able to provide them with something better, lol, such as the Zodiacs that the Port Security guys tools around in here stateside.

I think Shipman retired that boat a decade ago - when he got that new-fangled fish sonar thingy, heh.

Posted by .com 2006-10-12 08:31|| 2006-10-12 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 The Army has riverboats. The Navy doesn't like to get its white coats dirty in rivers.

Posted by gromky 2006-10-12 09:19|| 2006-10-12 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 It's an institutional-bias thing. For decades it wasn't 'career enhancing' to be in riverine units and other oddball/small commands. One had to get experience in ASW platforms; fire support and gator-freighters are necessary evils.

The Navy leadership was against small/cheap/littoral, because 1)the enemy was the Soviets on the open oceans, and 2) you go with small and cheap, Congress is gonna want to fund only that.

Hopefully the attitude is changing.

Posted by Pappy 2006-10-12 09:59|| 2006-10-12 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if they fish with grenades.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2006-10-12 10:53|| 2006-10-12 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Wonder if they'll end up stocking the lake with bass. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2006-10-12 11:13|| 2006-10-12 11:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Why do I suspect that very shortly that Iraqi lake is going to be populated with bass?

At least judging from some of the military bases down in the US south, there are a goodly number of followers of the religion of bass fishing in the ranks. And they regard a large body devoid of bass as being not entirely right.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-12 11:27|| 2006-10-12 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 The religion of bass fishing is the real ROP.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-12 11:43|| 2006-10-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 I go fishing a lot, I just don't go catching very often.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2006-10-12 12:15|| 2006-10-12 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 There is a very fine line between fishing and just being drunk on a boat (or on the banks). And I speak from experience: that line is repeatedly crossed on any good fishing trip.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-10-12 14:08|| 2006-10-12 14:08|| Front Page Top

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