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US to start training Ukrainians on Patriot system on US soil next week (This Week).
Fox News ^ | 01/10/2023 | Liz Friden , Caitlin McFall | Fox News

Posted on 01/19/2023 4:57:36 PM PST by know.your.why

U.S. armed forces will begin training up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers on the sophisticated Patriot missile system next week at Fort Sill, Okla., a defense official confirmed for Fox News Tuesday. The training is expected to take several months, though it will still be an expedited process in comparison to roughly year-long program the Patriot missile system traditionally takes. "The longer those troops are off the line – they're not actually engaged in combat – and so [the U.S. is] trying to work with Ukrainians to see what we can do to accelerate the training timeline," Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: billittothegrandkids; caitlinmcfall; fauxnews; fauxspews; lizfriden; missile; notourfarm; notourhog; notourwar; patriot; ukraine; us
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Seems like that would make Ft. Sill a legitimate military target for Russia.
1 posted on 01/19/2023 4:57:36 PM PST by know.your.why
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Seems unlikely.


2 posted on 01/19/2023 4:59:58 PM PST by FreshPrince
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Would be nice if the government cared about America as much as it cares about their puppet regime in the Ukraine.


3 posted on 01/19/2023 5:06:45 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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Seems like that would make Ft. Sill a legitimate military target for Russia.

Ukrainian troops have trained before on US soil.

The US army base training Ukrainian fighters

Senior-level Ukrainian officers have been studying in the US state of Kansas, thousands of miles from Russia's invasion and the battlefields of Donbas. Outside the Fort Leavenworth army base, wheat fields are starting to turn. Wide, open prairie land, with softly rolling hills, stretches for miles, and the sky is huge.

Fort Leavenworth has proved to be a valuable training ground for dozens of Ukrainian soldiers over the past several decades, who spend a year studying at the base's US Army Command and General Staff College.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62001336

4 posted on 01/19/2023 5:07:11 PM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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tBozo - spending all his dayz on FR waiting to pounce on all Uke threads - like a dutiful little harpie.


5 posted on 01/19/2023 5:15:24 PM PST by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: know.your.why

We are Russia’s opponent in this war. They have every justification for treating us that way.


6 posted on 01/19/2023 5:20:31 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Biden is a disaster on Ukraine:

* 6 months to get them HIMARS
* 12 months to get them missile defense
* 18 months? to get them tanks

It will be years before Ukraine gets the weapons that would end the war. Biden is slow-walking everything.

Here is an idea:

We have 1000 spare F-16s sitting in the desert. With another 1000 soon to join them.

Invite a bunch of Ukrainians over to Nevada. Train them for three months. Send them home flying 1000 F-16s.

Russian Airforce ceases to exist. Russian Army runs away. The war ends. Ukraine sends us back the planes.

Much cheaper and easier for everybody.


7 posted on 01/19/2023 5:21:29 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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Too late. It’s over.


8 posted on 01/19/2023 5:23:01 PM PST by JonPreston
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Are you still going over?


9 posted on 01/19/2023 5:23:39 PM PST by JonPreston
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Make it so!


10 posted on 01/19/2023 5:23:59 PM PST by Sunsong
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We do have foreigners incur military. Ukrainians should have been members of our military all along. Trained in European theater tactics. Then they could return home in an emergency. Something tells me Israelis who came from Ukraine are doing just that.


11 posted on 01/19/2023 5:35:48 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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I wonder how many will refuse to go back home


12 posted on 01/19/2023 6:02:32 PM PST by 5inch38gunner
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https://mises.org/library/living-reality-military-economic-fascism

Spread the word


13 posted on 01/19/2023 6:06:52 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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I bet Burisma has something to do with this. They were impeaching Trump over talking about it on a phone call.


14 posted on 01/19/2023 6:08:19 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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Meanwhile: Italian Trulli
15 posted on 01/19/2023 6:36:12 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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Invite a bunch of Ukrainians over to Nevada. Train them for three months. Send them home flying 1000 F-16s. Russian Airforce ceases to exist. Russian Army runs away. The war ends. Ukraine sends us back the planes.

LOL, yeah! You understand warfare and military operations about as well as Ursula Vondercrazy.

16 posted on 01/19/2023 6:49:07 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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I’m no expert, but I am confident I am one of about 200 million Americans who would do a better job than Biden.


17 posted on 01/19/2023 7:11:59 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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What’s the America’s post-Vietnam track record with arming and training people to again?


18 posted on 01/19/2023 7:20:52 PM PST by Antihero101607
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We didn’t attack Russia when they were doing more than this in Vietnam and Korea, in fact even supplying some troops and pilots.


19 posted on 01/19/2023 7:35:31 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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Trump does want them to be given MiGs I don’t know about the American jets, I assume those also.


20 posted on 01/19/2023 7:39:54 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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