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2020-04-22 Iraq

Lt. Col. (Ms) Staci Coleman, Al Assad Base Commander and Her Troops Who Braved Iraninan Missile Attack

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Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-04-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1 "But I tried to prepare myself with every announcement of an incoming missile. I had to. We all had to."

MSgt. "prepares self, self, self, self."

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-22 01:20|| 2020-04-22 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I came into this wanting to believe,
but Ah'm left empty.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-22 01:42|| 2020-04-22 01:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, the Master Sargents I know aren't really into 'Me, Me, Me'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-04-22 10:06|| 2020-04-22 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I wasn't ready to die

You are in a hostile theater. People want to kill you. The second you step on the plan to go there you had better be fucking ready.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-22 10:10|| 2020-04-22 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 plan=plane

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-22 10:11|| 2020-04-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 1) The U.S. Air Force Central Command (AFCENT) compiled a men36-page dossier of firsthand accounts from around 80 air who stayed behind on the night of Jan. 8.

They were told to provide first hand accounts which most always includes personal feelings. We don't send mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters out to die hoping for grief and a lifetime of loss for their families.

But lazy, fat assed, elderly keyboard colonels who have nothing to loose.

The base commander came out of an attack of a dozen ballistic Iranian missiles raining down on her position with no KIA, much to the disgust of leftist dead beats here who clearly hate our young people in uniform.

Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-04-22 14:16|| 2020-04-22 14:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe we aren't Zoomies, Farts.
Maybe you came into this as an agitator with a hard-on.
Maybe USNews pitched the softside for it's readership. We won't know until it's out.

For certain, in some experience, this is not how senior enlisted act under fire, nor Base Commanders.

Maybe a project manager running an airport would ask for a grooming list. A battlefield commander has and has exercised action plans which are explicit in roles, duty stations and timing.

No KIA, GREAT!
Bet they closed the field because everybody had concussion headaches and dirty shorts.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-22 14:50|| 2020-04-22 14:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Dang Skid, your comment is almost as long as the 10 line long Titles of your articles...

Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-04-22 16:42|| 2020-04-22 16:42|| Front Page Top

#9 An intelligence warning gave base leaders only several hours to prepare

Enough time for a preemptive strike?

Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-22 19:09|| 2020-04-22 19:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Want me to parse them for you Farts?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-22 19:10|| 2020-04-22 19:10|| Front Page Top

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