Posted on 08/15/2007 7:48:56 PM PDT by HAL9000
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, Aug 16 (Reuters) - U.S. forces launched an airborne assault on a desert compound south of Baghdad on Thursday, the first air strike in a major new offensive.A company of airborne infantry struck villas in search of Sunni Arab militants. The assault was a first part of operation Marne Husky, itself part of a countrywide push announced this week against both Sunni Arab and Shi'ite militants.
Major-General Rick Lynch, commander of U.S. forces south of Baghdad, told Reuters on Wednesday that about 4,000 of his men would be involved in the operation and would use air strikes and air-mobile infantry units to attack insurgents in the Tigris River valley south of the Iraqi capital.
Pointing on a map to the palm groves south of Baghdad in an area known as Arab Jabour, he said his troops had already pushed out many Sunni Arab militants in the past month and now planned to strike those who escaped southwards.
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An air assault is alot different than an airborne assault. Doubt that they did a airborne (parachute) assault. Since the MSM used both terms in the same article, they clearly don’t know the difference.
May the Force be with them.
Killing more civilians again, I see. /Barack Obama
Obama, the big eared, unqualified democratic candidate.
Remind me not to vote for this shallow and uninformed so called candidate.
Also, nudge me if I ever think of pulling the lever for the illicit, yet, wed wife of the pervert of the nation.
And we are telling Reuters all our plans because?
Hopefully, because we are lying through our teeth and want the traitors at Reuters to help mislead the enemy.
A couple of weeks ago, the Commando Brigade (2-10 Mountain) did it’s 100th Air Assault this deployment.
There have been Air Assaults in Iraq at a rate of ~2/day (0-4) since Jan...
Six replies, 200 views and not in breaking news. Over 500 dead in a mass terror attack in the country we are protecting. There is something wrong here.
OOps, wrong thread. :)
Roger, and only 3 airborne assaults, none since 2003.
But not likely.
I’ll have to check with my son the next time he is online. Reuters had photos up yesterday but now I cant find them
They have been parachuting supplies to some of the more out-of-the-way border posts (DBE).
But no airborne assaults in recent history.
Airborne brigades currently in Iraq are 1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigades/82nd ABD and 4th Brigade/25th ID. (Never have understood why people would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane...)
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