Give ya a hint, it wasn’t all flag officers and politicians Every day, NCOs in Humvees, junior officers from Captain on down were dealing with the local police and Iraqi army units one on one. The Staff Sergeants, Gunnys, and corpsmen went face to face with local people and called them out. They coached, encouraged, and shamed when necessary. They went into dangerous areas not | Read More »
My unit mobilized for Iraq in Feb 2003, and de-mobed in Sept the same year fortunate that all came home. There were some injuries, a few earned an early ride home but all in all we were blessed. One fellow Seabee apparently didn’t feel she did enough and volunteered to go back yet again barely two years later. Her name was MS1 Regina Clark, her | Read More »
One thing holding the US up from an Iraq pullout is the fact that we destroyed their armored forces. Appears the US is about to rectify that; http://tinyurl.com/3gknah quote: On July 31/08, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced [PDF] Iraq’s formal request to buy M1 Abrams tanks, well as the associated vehicles, equipment and services required to keep these tanks in the field. It | Read More »
quote: “Since they’ve done such a bang up job, I’ll be using the database over at the Center For Public Integrity a lot. It is fully researched and sourced.” http://tinyurl.com/565p3y Yup, definitely a lot of information there, and while there is a bibliography it’s not really sourced so checking context on various “Key False Statements” is an exercise in Google research. For example; quote: In | Read More »
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