Posted on 01/29/2024 2:11:41 PM PST by FarCenter
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces may have mistaken an enemy drone for an American one and let it pass unchallenged into a desert base in Jordan where it killed three U.S. troops and wounded dozens more, officials said Monday.
Details of the Sunday attack emerged as President Joe Biden faced a difficult balancing act, blaming Iran and looking to strike back in a forceful way without causing any further escalation of the Gaza conflict.
As the enemy drone was flying in at a low altitude, a U.S. drone was returning to the small installation known as Tower 22, according to a preliminary report cited by two officials, who were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity,
As a result, there was no effort to shoot down the enemy drone that hit the outpost. One of the trailers where troops sleep sustained the brunt of the strike, while surrounding trailers got limited damage from the blast and flying debris.
Aside from the soldiers killed, the Pentagon said more than 40 troops were wounded in the attack, most with cuts, bruises, brain injuries and similar wounds. Eight were medically evacuated, including three who were going to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The other five, who suffered minor brain injuries, were expected to return to duty.
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I guess US drones don’t have IFF. Kinda strange not to have that with so many countries now flying them.
I posit it’s because the CIA was using a captured drone from Ukraine to start a war. You’d be a fool to be believe anything the government tells you.
A lame excuse.
It will be interesting to see how the deaths of these 3 soldiers plays out in the media and in social media.
The names and pictures of the 3 soldiers have been posted in social media.
All 3 are African American and 2 appear to be women.
The progressive crowd turns everything into racial and sexual politics, will we hear about racial oppression about sending black soldiers to fight wars and black female soldiers to fight America’s wars.
We know the left hates the military I can picture a scenario of this tragic fiasco turned into a bigger deal involving the race and sex of these soldiers.
“You’d be a fool to be believe anything the government tells you.”
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Remember...the government (and their allies in the media) only tells us what they want us to know.
I’m just a peasant but I just can’t get it through my thick skull WHY we have soldiers there.
What a crock of ____. I truly hate this illegitimate government that is illegally in place.
WRONG THREAD - Sorry
yup it’s their part of the story cleaned up, glossed over
Incompetence by DOD’s Lloyd Austin.
The White males are sitting this one out. They refuse to be used as cannon fodder.
I wonder if this means our military is less combat effective now?
Just think of the Russian military with their conscripts.
WFT are our troops doing in Jordan when they should be on our own GD border?
Of course “errors” like this happen with the vegetable in the White House
“Details of the Sunday attack emerged as President Joe Biden faced a difficult balancing act, ...
Our traitorous dementia patient pResident has a difficult balancing act just sitting on a toilet.
Don’t believe anything, not one thing that spews from our criminal exec branch.
“...As the enemy drone was flying in at a low altitude, a U.S. drone was returning to the small installation known as Tower 22,...”
I ask about the ‘enemy’ bit because wouldn’t handing over billions of dollars in cash constitute giving ‘aid and comfort’? There’s a word for that...
False Flag / Gulf of Tonkin - bump for later....
Wow process failures everywhere.
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