The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of 73 EASTING - 1991 - Mar. 10th, 2003

http://www.ciar.org/~ttk/mbt/mbt/mbt.at-desert-storm.bourque.ht ^ | Stephen A. Bourque

[Darksheare]

During annual training there is nothing funnier than witnessing a blue on blue engagement when they had the opfor between them somehow disappear...

During actual combat there is nothing more frustrating, senseless, and demoralizing than a blue on blue incident.

Not much can be done for it, unfortunately, except more training and expecting the worst.

[Jen]

Howdy Ms Pippin. You caught me just before I have to bug out of the Foxhole and hit the books. Good to see you!

[SAMWolf]

Never watched any of the Survivor shows.

[SAMWolf]

Hi Pippin!

[xJones]

The Republican Guard did put up a real fight. It's too bad that the reminder of the Iraqi mechanized forces got away to Basra. As you say, the RG will probably fight even harder this time because all their priviledges come from Saddam, and now the object is getting rid of Saddam and his tribe.

[Vic3O3]

PING for the 2/1 Cav! Scouts Out!
Tnx, Cav!

[JustPiper]

[MHGinTN]

To the honorable United States Military Personnel who might read this thread today, be it known to you, both retired and actively engaged fellow citizens of America, we the people are with you. We support you. Let none of the naysaying so well publicized by the servile media trouble you. Our voices are not posted on television and in the print media, but we do support you. We know well that without your professional efforts, American children could be learning German, Japanese, or Russian as the language they would be commanded to speak, or forced to bow toward Mecca daily. That we have a choice is the blessing directly received by your brave work against the forces of evil. May God bless your efforts and keep you to return home, in defense of this nation so blessed under God.

[ishmac]

I was with 502nd MI, 3rd Squadron, Lighting Troop during the ground campaign. A big Toujours Prets for any cav troopers out there!

[ishmac]

BTW, does anyone know how many stars L.D. Holder has now? Col. Holder was the embodiment of a soldier and a warrior. Hope he's involved in the coming war--our boys will be in good hands

[SAMWolf]

Last rank I can find for him is Lt. General.

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Aloha (SP-317)

Aloha class steam yacht
Displacement. 659 t.
Lenght. 218'
Beam. 35'6"Draft. 18'
Complement. 86
Armament. 2 4", 2 3"

Aloha, a bark-rigged steam yacht, was built in 1910 at Quincy, Massachusetts. She cruised extensively in northern European and Mediterranean waters until the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 put an end to such pleasurable activities. When the United States entered the conflict in April 1917 she was leased to the U.S. Navy, which placed her in commission as USS Aloha (SP-317). She was commissioned on 5 June 1917, Lieutenant H. R. Swift, USNRF, in command.

She served for the rest of the war as flagship to the Inspector of Naval Districts, East Coast, Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow, supporting his extensive travels as he carried out his mission of ensuring the effectiveness of the Navy's shore facilities from Louisiana to New England.

USS Aloha was decommissioned in late January 1919 and returned to her owner. She voyaged around the World in 1921-1922 and visited Europe and the Mediterranean several times during 1925-1930. Following nearly three decades of peacetime pleasure cruising and wartime inspection duty, Aloha was scrapped in 1938.

[SAMWolf]

I find it amazing that the US Navy was using a steam yacht in WWI.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

bump

[PhilDragoo]

The 65th Colonel of the Regiment L.D. Holder

[SAMWolf]

Evening PhilDragoo.

[PhilDragoo]

RSOI - Its Purpose, Definition, and Challenges

"Today's leaders and planners must understand Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration (RSOI) as a part of deployment and employment. Contingency offensives will differ substantially. They will tend toward bare sufficiency because the Army will be smaller and have fewer "troops available." The need for speed and size constraints of strategic deployments will also affect the nature of force-projection offensives. RSOI will continue directly into the offensive in many cases. Commanders of attacking forces will, therefore, have to make hard decisions of timing and will be forced to weigh greater risks than those faced by the commanders of larger forward-deployed forces. Among those are the risks of attacking too soon before the full potential of the deploying force is developed and of waiting too long, thus allowing the original aggressor to solidify his defense. The bold, decisive, risktakers, idealized by Army doctrine, will have to get even bolder (wiser, too, in all likelihood) to effectively build and track combat power."

--LTG L. D. Holder, former Commander,

Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth

[PhilDragoo]

Apres Baghdad, Paris.

[PhilDragoo]

Veto this, eh?

[M Kehoe]

Odd, how history repeats it's self.

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