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2003-07-18 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-18 9:16:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Perhaps there was a secret memo from the Pentagon? "First units to achieve and maintain zero attacks against themselves will be replaced by National Guardsmen and rotated home."

Damn good incentive, if you ask me: Achieves everyone's goals and creates a climate less theatening to the N.G. units.

Posted by Ptah 2003-7-18 10:01:34 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-7-18 10:01:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Zero attacks is good, but if that number doesn't drop soon it will still be quagmire. [/sarcasm]

Posted by Dar 2003-7-18 10:14:25 AM|| 2003-7-18 10:14:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ptah, such a memo would be baaaaaad. Troops would manipulate the reporting [like the old Vietnam body count thing] so they could get the response they wanted. At the end of GW1 the troops in the depot in Saudi were told they couldn't get home till all the vehicles and equipment was load for shipping home. I can not describe in few words the pictures I saw at the off loading stateside and Germany on the condition the vehicles were literally crammed into the holds. They were off loading Iowa and Illinois NG trucks in the shipping back at Hamburg Germany. Got to be real careful on how you instruct Pvt. Snuffy, or be ready for some creative surprises.

Posted by Don 2003-7-18 10:19:06 AM|| 2003-7-18 10:19:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Don: It wasn't any better on the way out. We'd get a manifest from a division saying there were 30 Bradleys, 25 M-1's and 45 5-ton trucks on the Antares. The port load master would then send us a manifest saying that there were 19 Bradleys, 31 M-1's and 38 5-tons on the same ship. Finally, we'd get another manifest from the port of disembarkation stating that 26 Bradleys, 35 M-1 and 29 5-tons had been unloaded. Who was right? Who knows.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-18 1:34:10 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:34:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember just a week or two ago when attacks were INcreasing, according to the local newspaper.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-18 10:43:20 PM|| 2003-7-18 10:43:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is news to me. Great. Even in the Sunni triangle, we can snuff out opposition. The press sees only a debacle in the making, of course. But remember, the press defines a "crisis" over here as a decrease in the rate of increase for a favorite government program. When bullets are flying, mere "crisis" won't do--must escalate to "debacle" or the inevitable "Vietnam."

We won the war and we will win the post-war.

Posted by BJD (The Dignified Rant) 2003-7-18 10:58:33 PM|| [www.geocities.com/brianjamesdunn/TDRhome.html] 2003-7-18 10:58:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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