Posted on 05/19/2004 10:25:07 PM PDT by Jewels1091
Nice cache catch! BUMP!
I got dibs on the HK...
The source is Stars & Stripes.. wonder how long ago this actually occured.
Bump^ tx for the ping!
"The source is Stars & Stripes.. wonder how long ago this actually occured"
Stars and Stripes is a daily paper over there. For awhile there was a delay in us getting recent copies in Iraq. But they've actually started printing the edition we got in baghdad, at a facility in Kuwait, so we were getting them the day they were printed. My guess is that it had to have happened in the last few days.
Thanks for the update to modernity!
Thomas Sowell yesterday in IBD:
"Since the whole purpose of terrorism is to maximize fear from whatever acts they can get away with, the media are making themselves accomplices of our enemies."
In case you don't know, the artillery is called the "King of Battle" for a specific reason. It is based of the fact that the infantry is "The Queen of Battle". The King is always willing to place the balls where the Queen wants them.
"I am just remembering the 'Stars & Lies' from my years in WESTPac, and that was looooooooooong ago."
Well about 3-4 years ago Stars and Striles was taken over again by DoD.
Unfortuneately Army Times and the other "Times" papers are owned by Gannett News (USA Today) and they aren't as military friendly in some of their articles as their names would claim indicate.
Yes I'm aware of that part. But it also irks the Infantry becasue of the "Follow Me" part. They seem to think that everyone else supports them! LOL!
Now wonder the editorials are like they are. Sheesh...
It means "back to the top" or "bump to the top" because anytime a post is made to a thread, the thread is "bumped" to the top of the list of articles on the main page (News/Activism...or whatever main page you're looking at) until, of course, someone makes another post to another thread. Then that thread is on the top of the list. etc...
Not bad for a military that was supposed to be decimated by the brutal Afghan winter, and rendered completely helpless by a big sandstorm on the way to Baghdad.
I hope all these are found to be positive. Since the left has been allowed to move the goal posts to "stockpiles" well 155 shells sounds like a stockpile of WMD to me.
Check this article out by Timmerman:
"Saddams WMD have been found"
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=670120
"I am the Infantry. SWALLOW ME"
I was also lead to believe that, but many a time, the EOD folks were sent into the areas the infantry was leaving. I never quite understood that, because according to the Army, due to my poor eyesight, I was not combat qualified.
When I commanded the EOD detachment in Korea in 68/69 we use to work the DMZ quite a bit, and it was quite hot in there at that time. I, too, gave the command to my men, always trying to set the example, of "Follow Me". Of course I was always facing south when I uttered those words.
Bumping for a later read. Thanks.
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1st Cav's Opening Days of the Vietnam War:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm (Set #1 Photos)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm (Photo Collection)
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Not shells, remote pesticide delivery systems. Strictly for agricultural use.
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