Comments on: Pawns

By: Chap

Chap — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:39:54 +0000

I remember ‘96. I was a CDO on my JO shore tour in Yokosuka. Saw the bosses working; saw some muscle movements. It was touch and go for a while.

Later on, I was on a boat that did a FON in a place that now would be a little touchy. I felt very pawnish, and rather vulnerable.

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:50:08 +0000

T6,

I agree whole heartedly with the slogan “No More Vietnams!” If we are not interested in actually winning the conflict in Afghanistan, then any resulting casualties to our men will be nothing less than murder.

If the CinC has no intention of pushing for a positive (for us) resolution of this conflict, then he MUST begin an immediate withdrawal of all our men and material.

If it is intent to sacrifice our troops to gain a temporary victory by which he can withdraw our forces, and leave the Pathans, unsupported, to their fate, then he is worse than the Taliban themselves.

Either we invest to win or we get the heck out.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:21:09 +0000

I heard a story from the way back about units taking part in Cope Tiger in Thailand having to use personal credit cards to buy fuel to get back home. That sounds apocraphyl, but given how ticked off the guy relating the story was, it had a ring of truth.

Anyone know if such a thing ever happened? He was a C-130 crew chief that had been at Udorn RTAFB for Cope Tiger in 1996, I believe. I can’t remember which unit he was with.

By: Semicolon

Semicolon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:06:17 +0000

It was a West Coast CVW and squadron on KH.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:51:50 +0000

Semi, were you on FID’s last deployment? My first fleet squadron and CVW got the same homecoming from Bubba.

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:30:46 +0000

Alas, we currently have no leadership.