obama sends 1000 paratroopers to..........Iraq

[Antares]

"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

 

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"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

 

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President Obama said he would not put U.S. boots on the ground in Iraq, but left the door open for other forms of military action in response to the growing sectarian violence in the country.

“We will not be sending troops back into combat in Iraq,” Obama said at a White House press conference. “But I have asked my security advisers to prepare a range of other options.”

Obama: US won’t send troops into combat in Iraq
06/13/14 12:19 PM—Updated 06/25/14 05:07 PM
Obama US won t send troops into combat in Iraq MSNBC

 

[Antares]

"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

So........they will be "supporting" the Iraqi's but won't shoot back.

There ya have it folks.....

 

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About 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq in late January, the Defense Department announced Friday.

The soldiers from 3rd Brigade Combat Team will train, advise and assist Iraqi security forces as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, said Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby during a briefing Friday.

1 000 paratroopers to deploy to Iraq​

Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The soldiers from the 82nd’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., will begin to deploy in late January to train, advise and assist the ISF, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.

1 000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne headed to Iraq - U.S. - Stripes​

 

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"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

So........they will be "supporting" the Iraqi's but won't shoot back.

There ya have it folks.....

How does that differ from what the President said? Did the President say no American troops will be shooting back in Iraq?

 

[Antares]

"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

So........they will be "supporting" the Iraqi's but won't shoot back.

There ya have it folks.....

How does that differ from what the President said? Did the President say no American troops will be shooting back in Iraq?

What is Combat Dante?

 

[JakeStarkey]

"Last month, President Barack Obama authorized an additional 1,500 troops to deploy to Iraq to participate in the train, advise and assist mission. The deployment of elements of the 82nd Airborne is part of that initiative." 1 000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne headed to Iraq - U.S. - Stripes

keys and Antares as war lords and critics!

Why did you not meet me in Omaha, Antares, as you said you would?

 

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"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

So........they will be "supporting" the Iraqi's but won't shoot back.

There ya have it folks.....

How does that differ from what the President said? Did the President say no American troops will be shooting back in Iraq?

What is Combat Dante?

Military officials say they can accomplish that by “repurposing” whatever combat troops remain. Officially, a combat soldier is anyone trained in what are called combat-coded military occupation specialties — among them infantry, artillery and Special Forces — to engage the enemy. But combat troops can be given different missions. From the military’s point of view, a combat soldier is not so much what he is called but what he does.

Not Obama's view, the US Military's view.

Even though the agreement with the Iraqi government calls for all American combat troops to be out of the cities by the end of June, military planners are now quietly acknowledging that many will stay behind as renamed “trainers” and “advisers” in what are effectively combat roles. In other words, they will still be engaged in combat, just called something else.

“Trainers sometimes do get shot at, and they do sometimes have to shoot back,” said John A. Nagl, a retired lieutenant colonel who is one of the authors of the Army’s new counterinsurgency field manual.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22combat.html



“We will not be sending troops back into combat in Iraq,” Obama said at a White House press conference. “But I have asked my security advisers to prepare a range of other options.”

The Pentagon rules and therefore the US Military does not consider this aid to be a combat role.

end of story

 

[Antares]

"Last month, President Barack Obama authorized an additional 1,500 troops to deploy to Iraq to participate in the train, advise and assist mission. The deployment of elements of the 82nd Airborne is part of that initiative." 1 000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne headed to Iraq - U.S. - Stripes

keys and Antares as war lords and critics!

Why did you not me in Omaha, Antares, as you said you would?

(smiling) Sure jake, where were you again?

 

[Antares]

"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

So........they will be "supporting" the Iraqi's but won't shoot back.

There ya have it folks.....

How does that differ from what the President said? Did the President say no American troops will be shooting back in Iraq?

What is Combat Dante?

The Pentagon rules and therefore the US Military does not consider this aid to be a combat role.

end of story

What is Combat Dante?

 

[Antares]

"
verb (used with object), combated, combating or (especiallyBritish) combatted, combatting.
1.
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously:
to combat crime.
verb (used without object), combated, combating or (especiallyBritish) combatted, combatting.
2.
to battle; contend:
to combat with disease.
noun
3.
Military. active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
4.
a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, orideas.

 

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"
verb (used with object), combated, combating or (especiallyBritish) combatted, combatting.
1.
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously:
to combat crime.
verb (used without object), combated, combating or (especiallyBritish) combatted, combatting.
2.
to battle; contend:
to combat with disease.
noun
3.
Military. active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
4.
a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, orideas.

cute, but what does the Pentagon use? The Military has it's own laws and rules.

 

[Antares]

"
verb (used with object), combated, combating or (especiallyBritish) combatted, combatting.
1.
to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously:
to combat crime.
verb (used without object), combated, combating or (especiallyBritish) combatted, combatting.
2.
to battle; contend:
to combat with disease.
noun
3.
Military. active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
4.
a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, orideas.

cute, but what does the Pentagon use? The Military has it's own laws and rules.

What is Combat Dante?

 

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Look at how honest President Obama is and how dishonest his critics are

WASHINGTON — President Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year.

By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITTNOV. 21, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/u...ma-extends-us-role-in-afghan-combat.html?_r=0



It appears that even the NYT is more honest than a single Obama critic

 

[Antares]

Quit hiding Dante, what is Combat?

 

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"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday."

So um what part of "take on the Islamic state" do you not understand?

Help the Iraqi...

So........they will be "supporting" the Iraqi's but won't shoot back.

There ya have it folks.....

How does that differ from what the President said? Did the President say no American troops will be shooting back in Iraq?

What is Combat Dante?

“We will not be sending troops back into combat in Iraq,” Obama said at a White House press conference. “But I have asked my security advisers to prepare a range of other options.”

 

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Quit hiding Dante, what is Combat?

1962 - 1967

Combat!, a one-hour WWII drama series on television, followed a frontline American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe. With mud-splattered realism, the show offered character studies of men striving to maintain their own humanity in the midst of a world torn by war.

see Like you I googled a definition.

the above is a factually true definition of 'Combat"

 

[Antares]

WHAT is Combat Dante?

 

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Combat troops: defined by the US military as those whose primary mission is to engage the enemy with lethal force.