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U.S. troops parachute into northern Iraq - CNN
Reuters
| 3/26/03
Posted on 03/26/2003 2:26:36 PM PST by kattracks
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To: Lunatic Fringe
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:31:29 PM PST
by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: brewcrew
How do you clear the way for armored tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles by seizing an airfield? I'm no military expert, but this doesn't seem to make sense - unless it's for air support for said vehicles Seize the airfield and fly the equipment in on heavy transports?
To: craig_eddy
That was my other guess. I guess the article is just poorly written.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:31:56 PM PST
by
brewcrew
(It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift)
To: Vic3O3; cavtrooper21
Ping!
Wouldn't this be the largest combat air drop since WWII?
Semper Fi
24
posted on
03/26/2003 2:31:58 PM PST
by
dd5339
(Lookout Texas here we come!)
To: kattracks
Something is weird here. There is no reason to "seize" an airport in Kurdish territory. We're already there. Just land and save the trouble of repacking the parachutes.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:32:11 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: kattracks
Just Confirmed By Fox News
26
posted on
03/26/2003 2:32:16 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: JayP56
The 173rd is a seperate Airborne Brigade based out of Vincenza, Italy. They were recently re-activated a few years ago, thank God.
27
posted on
03/26/2003 2:33:05 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: Howlin; Lunatic Fringe
They flew in from Italy...
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:33:06 PM PST
by
Dog
To: brewcrew
They are securing the airfield presumably so that transports can fly the heavy units in. Now it gets interesting.
To: Dog Gone
I strongly suspect that this airfield is near, not in, Kurdish-controlled territory.
To: Dog
*Snort*
31
posted on
03/26/2003 2:33:37 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: rdb3
Stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door...............If I remember right, you may have said this a time or two.
32
posted on
03/26/2003 2:33:37 PM PST
by
Mark17
To: Howlin
I'll second that............ YEEEEAHHH !!! HOOO AHHHHH !!! All the way, Sir ! Airborne !
To: Dog Gone
Something is weird here. There is no reason to "seize" an airport in Kurdish territory. We're already there. Just land and save the trouble of repacking the parachutes. They have a Republican guard unit up there. Probably were bombing the heck out of them the last few days. These guys are there to secure the airfield for what is left until they drop the heavy armor in for the push Southward.
To: JayP56
No, Indy Brigade.
35
posted on
03/26/2003 2:34:21 PM PST
by
MindBender26
(... and for more news as it happens, stay tuned to your FReeper station.)
To: brewcrew
C5A's and other cargo planes can carry the tanks and vehicles.
This is as much warning to the Turks as it is part of the upcoming Northern Invasion of Iraq.
36
posted on
03/26/2003 2:34:22 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
("Those who are kind to the cruel end up being cruel to the kind!")
To: Dog Gone
This war has planned surprises. That's what Franks said!
Ha ha!
37
posted on
03/26/2003 2:34:24 PM PST
by
bvw
To: JohnHuang2; Dog
I'm going out right this second and
BUY ITALIAN!
38
posted on
03/26/2003 2:34:51 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Lunatic Fringe
Let me tell you about a place called Vietman......
39
posted on
03/26/2003 2:34:55 PM PST
by
MindBender26
(... and for more news as it happens, stay tuned to your FReeper station.)
To: Lunatic Fringe
Here is a little history on the 173rd:
"The Troopers of the 173d Airborne Brigade (SEP) wear their combat badges and decorations with pride. During more than six years of nearly continuous combat in Vietnam, The brigade earned 14 campaign streamers and four unit citations, had 13 Medal of Honor winners, had over 130 distinguished service crosses winners, and awarded over 6,000 purple hearts, conducted the only U.S. combat parachute assault of the war, and sadly, over 1700 names of Sky Soldiers on the wall."
Sounds like an impressive outfit to me.
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