Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 02/06/2011 9:08:11 AM PST by Fennie
A senior member of the US Marine corps is telling people "multiple platoons" are deploying to Egypt, a source tells us.
There is a system within the US Marines that alerts the immediate families of high-ranking marines when their marine will soon be deployed to an emergency situation where they will not be able to talk to their spouses or families.
That alert just went out, says our source.
This senior Marine told our source that the Pentagon will deploy "multiple platoons" to Egypt over the next few days and that the official reason will be 'to assist in the evacuation of US citizens."
Our source was told that "the chances they were going over there went from 70% yesterday to 100% today."
We're keeping these people anonymous because both would get in trouble for sharing this information with the press.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Loose lips sink ships?
That system seems to have a big hole in it....
Secrets....ain’t !
What will the Marines do, other than anger the people?
ping...
Obama acting unilaterally?!
What happened to the UN? NATO?
What has not been reported is that NASA was deployed there last week to assure the Egyptian populace that the Muslim Brotherhood is OK because they represent a long line of Muslim scientists and scholars.
Just a guess here....
Evacuate US citizens because the administration knows the MB is going to be in charge pretty darn soon?
It’s to assist with evacuation, just the same as other governments do with their citizens.
The hysteria sometimes is annoying.
Which people? The Egyptians, the MB, the DNC, or Code Pink?......
Either that or ensure that Obambi’s Muslem bro’hood friends have safe passage into power.
mot likely to secure the embassy, er...destroy as much as possible, if 1979 is repeated.
Protect the U.S. Consulate.
What hysteria?
However, if this ended up on Democratic Underground then we might as well post it here because the info is already out there. Kinda like someone posting Prince Harry's movements in Afghanistan.
I seem to remember the events that happened in Beirut.
Battalions are routinely designated as “ACB”s. This only means that those battalions, or parts of those battalions, are prepared to deploy very quickly for “emergency” situations such as Katrina, the oil spill, the Haiti earthquake, etc. They may also be used to secure airfields in the event of evacuations in hostile areas, and this may be what some Marine units will be doing.
The kinds of notifications noted in this story are normal, and so are the rumors from “the Lance Corporal underground” that follow. I have heard from a good source that in this case the rumors of actual deployment for some battalions, including some that have recently returned from Afghanistan, are legit.
Then it should be shared.
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