Posted on 01/20/2012 10:16:07 AM PST by nuconvert
An Army officer speaking on behalf of special forces confirmed on Thursday that a team of "highly trained personnel that excel in uncertain environments" are operating near Iran. Spencer Ackerman just published the scoop on Wired's Danger Room blog:
The primary, day-to-day mission of the team, known as Joint Special Operations Task Force-Gulf Coordinating Council, is to mentor military units belonging to the U.S.' oil-rich Arab allies, who collectively are known as the Gulf Coordinating Council. Those Arab states consider Iran to be their primary foreign threat.
The task force provides "highly trained personnel that excel in uncertain environments," Maj. Rob Bockholt, a spokesman for special-operations forces in the Mideast, tells Danger Room, and "seeks to confront irregular threats."
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This Ubama regime is almost as secure as a screen door on a submarine.
Yes It happens all the time, but tht doesn’t make it right.
I believe training people in our tactics who we may have to later fight is stupid.
Maybe your opinion differs, but that’s my feeling.
I went and read the original story and it seemed more like a reorganization of existing units into a single joint force.
It did seem to clandestine to me. Kind of sounded like their spokesperson explained it as pretty plain.
Because the headline and story are hype. It's just a training mission. that is a mission to provide training to nominally friendly forces. We do it all the time. Yes it's aimed at containing Iran, so it's sort of like training the Germans,Turks, Greeks, to resist the Red Menace, in the 50s and 60s.
But also not exactly something you can keep secret in a place like the Middle East.
Because the headline and story are hype. It's just a training mission. that is a mission to provide training to nominally friendly forces. We do it all the time. Yes it's aimed at containing Iran, so it's sort of like training the Germans,Turks, Greeks, to resist the Red Menace, in the 50s and 60s.
But also not exactly something you can keep secret in a place like the Middle East.
I was astounded when I found out that we are training so many foreigners..
bttt
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