The Pentagon is planning to send more combat troops into Iraq
"The Pentagon is planning to send
more combat troops into Iraq"
Barry, like Hillary, is a F*ing LIAR!
During the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly 13,000 Special Operations forces were deployed on missions across the globe, but a large majority were assigned to those two countries. Now, roughly half of the 7,500 elite troops overseas are posted outside the Middle East or South Asia, operating in 85 countries, according to the
United States Special Operations Command.
chickenshit RW's whine about ISIS and Obama doing nothing
so
The 300 American soldiers here, with a smaller number of United States Marines at Al Asad air base in Anbar Province, are the only American soldiers deployed outside Baghdad. But as the military sees it, they do not count as “boots on the ground” since their role is purely to train, advise and assist, as
part of a 3,000-person deployment authorized in November by President Obama.
In fact, Master Sgt. Mike Lavigne, a military spokesman (one tour in Iraq and three in Afghanistan), does not like that term at all. “We do not have a single boot on the ground,” he said. “Really, not one.”
Even in a training role, however, this venerable Iraqi military base puts American soldiers very close to what passes for a front line in the conflict with the Islamic State, also known as
ISIS or ISIL. From time to time, the extremists lob mortar rounds from their hiding places east of the base, just across the Tigris River.
There is little chance they will hit anything. The base is huge, and their aim is as bad as it was in Al Qaeda’s day, when the Americans were last here — and used it as a major training base. Nonetheless, no one goes around without body armor on.
On Thursday, the American instructors were leading a live-fire exercise, teaching basic small-unit maneuvering while firing at pop-up targets. Squad-size groups of Iraqi soldiers charged through a scrub-brush field, so realistic fires popped up around them.
“Small-unit maneuvering is pretty standard the world over,” Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Ames said. As basic as the training was, many of the trainees — even those in the army already more than a year — had never experienced it.
now they ***** about him doing something ...
F RW's !
every single one of you.