Comments on: I&W

By: Grampa Bluewater

Grampa Bluewater — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:41:26 +0000

AW1

My best friend’s son went to Iraq as Artillery degunned and used as Infantry.

He said “You wake up, say your prayers, go through your day, get ready for bed, say your prayers, and trust in the Lord,
because that’s all you can do”. Tough duty. What he didn’t say, but did, was be unchanged to his other kids, and the people who knew him, despite “the fox gnawing” at his guts. His lady knew and worried about him, and he about her, and they about their son.

Who came home, after many dangers, trials, and adventures, safe and whole and decorated and promoted. Going to school on the GI Bill. Getting married this May, to a fine young woman.

May you and yours have the same good fortune. You are in our prayers.

By: HomefrontSix

HomefrontSix — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:22:08 +0000

Most definitely praying for Sean, Tim.

By: Airmail

Airmail — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:57:59 +0000

Everybody should read “Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Spendid Suns” while you are thinking about Afghanistan.

Did the readers here know that General Chuck Yeager was the U.S. Govt’s ranking military official in that region as his last official post? His biography and the books above give some good descriptions of life there, the people, culture and insight to a way of life we cannot begin to understand unless we go oursleves.

Frankly, I think there is more harm in pulling out.

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:33:33 +0000

The Af is a sideshow for him.. he certainly doesn’t want to spend any political capital on it.. thus drag it out as long as possible and try not to make decisions until he is forced. His real front-burner battle is the expansion of the federal government into healthcare. Once all the borrowing capacity is drained, then funding of the military will die on the vine anyway and his agenda in that respect accomplished as well.. We’d damn well better stand up and be counted now.

By: Quartermaster

Quartermaster — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:15:07 +0000

The 101st can’t deploy within 36 hours. They can send troops, but the majority of their equipment will have to follow later. The 101st is pretty loaded in that regard. Their major equipment consists of a very large number of choppers. The Blackhawk can self deploy to an extent, but they are flying gas cans and can carry little else. The Apache, to my knowledge can not. The Army could get 5 Cobras on a C-5, I don’t know how many Apaches can be loaded on either a C-5 or C-17.

The “Puking Buzzards” are actually air mobile and no longer an Airborne division.

By: Kris, in New England

Kris, in New England — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:10:36 +0000

Once again I am reminded of Rome burning – with Obama cast as Caesar with his precious fiddle.

If it is true that our military leaders are just anticipating something, how horrible to put all our warriors and their families into limbo like this.

Then again, I’m speaking about Obama. Just exactly what did we expect from the empty suit…