Posted on 01/27/2015 6:50:36 AM PST by Timber Rattler
The 82nd Airborne, and more specifically its 3rd Brigade Combat Team, are no strangers to Iraq.
Since 2003, parts of the brigade have deployed in support of U.S. efforts there on at least three occasions.
Now, more than three years after the U.S. military presence in Iraq was thought over, about a quarter of the Panther Brigade will return with a new mission to help train Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State.
About 1,000 paratroopers from the brigade will deploy this week as part of the Operation Inherent Resolve mission.
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I guess they won’t be “boots on the ground”, since they have parachutes.
Looks like Obozo is realizing that what his detractors said about leaving Iraq too soon was true. Not that anyone in the WH will admit it.
Nice work .. glad to see you informed the enemy we’re coming.
My God .. can we get any more stupid ..??
Its kind of ironic that the Left, which campaigned for a hasty withdrawal from Iraq now has to admit Islamic terrorists threaten the entire Middle East.
And our airpower isn’t obviously going to be enough to turn the tide.
No, they’ll never admit that they were wrong.
We need to drop odumbo into Iraq, via parachute or otherwise.
We need to drop odumbo into Iraq, via parachute or otherwise.
Will be wearing SNEAKERS, to avoid any “boots on the ground”...
When that F35 thingie gets working guns in a few years, maybe it will.
He will flap his ears.
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is free and Obama is on the run.
I hate this incremental increase stuff. All it does is aid the enemy.
There is going to be a Presidential press conference this afternoon and Obama is going to admit that he’s an idiot and that he’s been wrong on everything he’s thought or done and he’s going to apologize to our country and the world.
PHONE OR EMAIL YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND OPPOSE THIS!
YEAH, I’M SHOUTING!
We seem to be sneaking back into the Iraq War. It were better did we not ever quit in the first place.Maintaining what we had got were much easier than trying to glue the pieces back together.
What I have read and heard of the 35 suggests that major powers will be sorely tempted to challenge American mastery of the air once the 16s and 22s are retired in favor of the new Lego Fighter.
I’m calling it the “Summer of Death” for ISIS in Iraq.
I expect ISIS bleeding to continue up until the offensive in Mosul, and then to accelerate sharply.
All you wannabe jihadis hanging around Saudi-funded mosques in the West: Send your kids to die, you stupid fools.
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