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To: SirLinksalot
Thanks for the post. Bookmarked.
27 posted on
01/31/2006 12:39:44 PM PST by
G.Mason
(Iwo Jima ... 6,825 American's died in the 36 days of that battle. We did not quit John Murtha!)
To: SirLinksalot
Interestingly, our soldiers appear to better understand the incremental nature of this war than many reporters, pundits, and politicians. Americans seem to kind of want this McDonalds war, where you drive up, you order it, you pay for it, you go to the next window and get a democracy. Thats not the way it works, cautioned Army reservist Scott Southworth recently. It takes a lot of effort; it takes a lot of time.BTTT!
29 posted on
01/31/2006 3:03:02 PM PST by
ScreamingFist
( Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. NRA)
To: SirLinksalot
37 posted on
01/31/2006 11:25:47 PM PST by
Left2Right
("Democracy isn't perfect, but other governments are so much worse")
To: ducks1944; Ragtime Cowgirl; Alamo-Girl; TrueBeliever9; maestro; TEXOKIE; My back yard; djreece; ...
The proof of the pudding: Individuals who have actually served in Iraq and Afghanistan are signing up again at record rates. Re-enlistment totals in the active Army over the last three years are more than 6 percent above targets. Over a third of Army re-enlistments now take place in combat zones. Todays supposed hemorrhaging in military manpower is mostly a fiction manufactured by the media. Moderate shortfalls in recruiting new bodies have hit reserve and National Guard units. The latest Army Reserve recruiting class, for instance, totaled only 96 percent of the goal.
All active duty branches, however, are exceeding their recruiting requirements in the latest monthly figures from the Department of Defense (released in December). The Army and Marine Corps (who are doing most of the hard service in Iraq) were each at 105 percent of their quotas. After a dip early in 2005, the Army has met or exceeded its goals for new recruits in every month since June. One source of pressure on the active-duty Army is the process of expanding from 482,000 soldiers to 512,000, as a dozen new combat brigades are added to the force.
38 posted on
02/01/2006 7:32:29 AM PST by
Calpernia
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To: SirLinksalot
Great article. I needed that right about now.
bitt, thanks for the ping.
40 posted on
02/01/2006 1:04:35 PM PST by
USMCPOP
To: SirLinksalot
Also on Christmas Day, a newly hired Iraqi interpreter pulled a gun on one of our soldiers who works with sensitive intelligence. The Iraqi spy made Specialist Steven Clark bring him to his work space so he could look at his computer work station. The interpreter briefly turned his back to Clark and our guy immediately pulled his 9mm pistol and emptied his magazine into the Iraqi. The interpreter also got six shots off, one of which hit the soldier in his left breast pocket, but a notebook and ID card stopped the bullet. I love a happy ending. But what was the spy using, a .25 ACP?. I suppose a 9mm Kurz (.380) is more likely , and almost as likely to be stopped by a notebook and ID card. (If it's a modern Common Access Card, it's the size and thickness of a credit card, but with both a magnetic strip and a "chip".
41 posted on
02/01/2006 4:31:25 PM PST by
El Gato
(The Second Amendment is the Reset Button of the U.S. Constitution)
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42 posted on
03/31/2006 12:03:15 AM PST by
malia
(The Democrats .... Retreat and Defeat!! The Media ....no reporting just commentary)
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