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2010-04-11 Afghanistan
US Military Running Short Of Food And Water
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Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 No -- its time to put a bootprint on the ass of the rookie politician that screwed this up by insisting what he wanted without any reference to reality or deference to the military professionals.

Park this one on Obama's desk.
Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-11 00:47||   2010-04-11 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Assumption 1: Troops need food and water.

Assumption 2: POTUS hasn't a frigging clue, but he and wife never miss HOTS. Pass the Lobster Thermidor please.

Ok Pentagon generals and planners and er huh White House security advisor General (Ret) USMC Pete pace...Afghan Log Plan-B, where the phuech is it?

A bit too late to argue the merits of a logistics-lite, Afghanistan surge, or the wisdom of a forward support base on a the soil of a FSU satellite. Let us hope and pray the closure of the Manas air base is not permanent. Early reportes indicated there were at least 1300 troops stranded there. The winter of 2010 may be very ugly.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-11 02:59||   2010-04-11 02:59|| Front Page Top

#3 In other news: Fort Hood terrorist and murderer Nidal Malik Hasan gets private prison suite and US Navy conducts costly retrofit of submarines to accomodate new, female submariners.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-11 03:22||   2010-04-11 03:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, the only credible threat to Baraq's transformation plans are USA millitary---getting them defeated & demoralized is therefore a must.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-04-11 03:27||   2010-04-11 03:27|| Front Page Top

#5 US Marines on the FEBA angry, hungry and dirty. Shocking news indeed.
Posted by Shipman 2010-04-11 04:09||   2010-04-11 04:09|| Front Page Top

#6 "there are no beds, no showers, no toilets and no electricity. Chickens and ducks roam the bare dirt yard amid scraps of trash and rotting animal dung. Fleas, flies and filth are the grunts' constant companions."

Sounds like my firebase in Nam. The Marines will improvise, adapt and overcome. We did.

This does not address the core problem, which is the arrogance and incompetence of the Commander in Chief. Obambi screwed up. I like OS's bootprint suggestion best. This turkey makes Carter look good.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-04-11 06:16||   2010-04-11 06:16|| Front Page Top

#7 No complaints about ammo? Things can't be too bad.

It really is time to get out. This will end like Elphinstone with Barry in charge.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-04-11 08:17||   2010-04-11 08:17|| Front Page Top

#8 This will end like Elphinstone with Barry in charge.

I think this was the plan from the beginning.
Posted by SR-71 2010-04-11 08:31||   2010-04-11 08:31|| Front Page Top

#9 No SR-71, Barry has no plan.
Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-11 08:33||   2010-04-11 08:33|| Front Page Top

#10 This is the most sorry assed thing I have read.

People need to get fired. FIRED.
Logheads should be on it with bells on all the time.
Now, I expect the executive office shares responsibility and I have no respect for him, but if you cannot do basics, you have no business deploying or keeping anyone overseas.

This needs to be watched very closely.

I am pissed.; I am for hire if they need help.
Fix it now Mr "President".
Posted by newc  2010-04-11 08:57||   2010-04-11 08:57|| Front Page Top

#11 They sleep with flees and chiggers and have very little food available to them. They say living like pioneers in the 1800s...

..at some godforsaken outpost, surrounded by hostiles, with duplicitous government agents from other agencies. Now where have we seen this before?
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-11 09:03||   2010-04-11 09:03|| Front Page Top

#12 The real question is how the ammo stocks are faring.
Posted by Pappy 2010-04-11 09:22||   2010-04-11 09:22|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by Mother Teresa 2010-04-11 09:37||   2010-04-11 09:37|| Front Page Top

#14 fleas, flies, feces, dung, urine, defecation, spitum

AKA "wash day" at the Justice Manor
Posted by Frank G 2010-04-11 09:55||   2010-04-11 09:55|| Front Page Top

#15 What's scary about this is, civilian control of the military in USA was always predicated on the assumption that while the civilian controllers might be incompetent or corrupt, they would not be actively hostile to the military. We're way far away from Clinton's half desguised assertion that he "loathed the military..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2010-04-11 10:22||   2010-04-11 10:22|| Front Page Top

#16 This puts the recent decision to shut down Burger King et. al. in a different and much more understandable light. Priorities.
Posted by rwv 2010-04-11 10:31||   2010-04-11 10:31|| Front Page Top

#17 US Military Running Short Of Food And Water

Time to leave Atlanta and march to the sea!
Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-11 11:33||   2010-04-11 11:33|| Front Page Top

#18 I would take this all with a grain of salt. The stars and Stripes is not a DOD paper. They are owned by some NY news group and have always been a little leftie. Times are tough at all firebases, always have been always will be. Do they think it shoud be like an FOB, have a burger king, PX, and massages?
On another note, a month ago when the command closed the pizzahut and burger kings because it was a strain on the logistics to support the troops, well, the same papers cried foul.
Posted by 49 Pan 2010-04-11 12:09||   2010-04-11 12:09|| Front Page Top

#19 NO, no, Justice. You have it wrong. Frank does not have a Jewish master, he IS a Jewish master. All the regulars here are.

Now get back to that mullah you sold your girlfriend to and report that we challenge him to a dogfight, F-15s at 10 km. What? He doesn't have an F-15? He can use one of the Chinese MiG-17 knockoffs from my personal junkyard. We don't mind.

Now begone before I order a black chopper load of flying monkeys to break into your trailer and reprogram your toaster to take control of you pet guinea pig and brainwash it to devour your secret stash of Eva Braun nudes.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-11 12:09||   2010-04-11 12:09|| Front Page Top

#20 Jeez, AC, don't hold back - tell him (it?) how we you really feel.

ROFL. :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-11 12:32||   2010-04-11 12:32|| Front Page Top

#21 Don't feed the trolls, Atomic Conspiracy. Angry responses are what they thrive on. Trolls that get no responses to their outrageous posts get bored and go away.
Posted by gromky 2010-04-11 12:34||   2010-04-11 12:34|| Front Page Top

#22 /sigh ...

Another confirmation that the world is going down hill: the quality of trolls here on the Burg is definitely declining.
Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-11 13:07||   2010-04-11 13:07|| Front Page Top

#23 It was our resident Saudi troll (at least the IP sed it was), so that's likely the reason.

Maybe he should've had his Indonesian houseboy do the trolling instead of just taking dictation. At least the quality would've been better.
Posted by Pappy 2010-04-11 13:29||   2010-04-11 13:29|| Front Page Top

#24 Maybe he should've had his Indonesian houseboy do the trolling instead of just taking dictation. At least the quality would've been better.

What? No compliance with ISO 66613 Troll Quality Standards??
Posted by badanov 2010-04-11 13:56|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2010-04-11 13:56|| Front Page Top

#25 Now begone before I order a black chopper load of flying monkeys to break into your trailer and reprogram your toaster to take control of you pet guinea pig and brainwash it to devour your secret stash of Eva Braun nudes.

Damn, Ima remember why I don't fuck with shiplords.
Posted by Shipman 2010-04-11 14:17||   2010-04-11 14:17|| Front Page Top

#26 Poor Mr. Justice has toned down considerably. He used to come out from Friday services at the mosque, find Rantburg, and go on about raping your wives in front of you while you cleaned his toilet after the world conquest of Islam. He was, for some reason, obsessed by the idea of my armpit hair, which along with the above says a great deal about his nature and nurture.

He seems to have given up on proclaiming both ideas after getting liberally bashed about the head for it, and is reduced to verbal spitballs... and even that got him bashed. One wonders how much it will cost his father to buy him even an imbecilic wife with a harelip, given what an unprepossessing specimen of future manhood he is.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-11 18:43||   2010-04-11 18:43|| Front Page Top

#27 TW delivers a zinger for all times. Bravo!
Posted by M. Murcek 2010-04-11 19:10||   2010-04-11 19:10|| Front Page Top

#28 tw, it wont cost a thing, and they will only have to walk down the hall.
Posted by Grunter 2010-04-11 19:34||   2010-04-11 19:34|| Front Page Top

#29 i would eat the chickens
Posted by chris 2010-04-11 21:32||   2010-04-11 21:32|| Front Page Top

#30 ION FREEREPUBLIC > US MILITARY WARNS DIP IN OIL OUTPUT MAY CAUSE MASSIVE OIL SHORATGES BY 2015.

* SAME > SUPER-FALKLANDS BASE IN THE GULF?
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-11 23:37||   2010-04-11 23:37|| Front Page Top

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