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Frugal1
 
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Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:25 pm
@glitterbag,
HRC would have had the Seal Team changing uniforms 6 or 7 times before leaving their base, they would have arrived after sunrise without air support & suffered huge loses.
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Baldimo
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:25 pm
@glitterbag,
Don't forget the old maxim of battle: "No Battle Plan survives contact with the enemy." In most cases, these guys also have 2nd and 3rd layers to their plans as contingency. When I was in Afghanistan, depending on if we were doing drop off's and pick up's, we had secondary LZs. Some of these were very limited due to the terrain we had to land in, CH-47's are big.
glitterbag
 
  2  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:26 pm
@revelette1,
Maybe Trey Goudy will begin a new investigation to assign blame. My remarks were not meant to criticize, I just wanted to say that military ops are carefully planned, but you can't always control the target's ability to defeat efforts. If we could, all attacks would be successful.
glitterbag
 
  2  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:27 pm
@Baldimo,
Thanks junior, I didn't.
Baldimo
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:39 pm
@revelette1,
Quote:
From what I read, they were tipped off by the sound of the low helicopters and drones. I guess it would have risky no matter what.


Not sure about the low flying drones, but helicopters are very loud and in most cases when in a combat zone, do not go above 200 feet. If they fly to high, the noise carries farther and it makes them easier to shoot down. Most of the time Special Ops work with the 160th SOAR, and they are some of the best pilots and air crews in the Army. For those guys, 200 feet is the same flying at cloud level, they fly NAP, Near As Possible, and they do it fast.

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Frugal1
 
  -3  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:41 pm


Liberaltardation is an epidemic in California.

VIDEO- People’s Republic of UC Berkeley: Pole-Wielding Thugs Hunt & Terrorize Trump Supporters, KO Man in Street
Baldimo
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:41 pm
@glitterbag,
Junior? Do you always have to be an asshole?
Olivier5
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:49 pm
@Baldimo,
Where were you posted in Afghanistan? Which province?
revelette1
 
  2  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:54 pm
@glitterbag,
Yeah, I know, I was still thinking about my "moonless night" comment. Luckily I am used to embarrassment.
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Baldimo
 
  0  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 12:57 pm
@Olivier5,
I spent most of my time in Kandahar and a few weeks a 2 different FOB's. Prior to Afghanistan, I spent 5 months in Pakistan.
layman
 
  0  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 01:16 pm
@Frugal1,


Still not a word out of the super-humane, tolerant, always-sympathic, love-filled libs, eh, Frug?

They are so consumed by love that they will kill you if you don't have the same amount of love in your heart as they do.

They won't say a word, but they'll still down-vote any exposure of the truth while hiding in the filth-ridden safe spaces they thrive in.
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glitterbag
 
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Thu 2 Feb, 2017 01:42 pm
@Baldimo,
Yes, especially when you step too far into my space because you are an inexperienced asshole. I thiought I use language that you would understand.
Olivier5
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:01 pm
@Baldimo,
Oh nice. I've been to Kandahar briefly, in 2003. Pretty hot place. Loved the young US soldiers at the airport, behemoths packed up like mules and courteously smilling under the sun... Maybe you were one of them. :-)

I travelled all over Nuristan and Kunar as a development worker end 80s early 90s, based in Peshawar, Pakistan. Those were the days.

What's a FOB?
Baldimo
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:01 pm
@glitterbag,
Quote:
Yes, especially when you step too far into my space

Into your space? My comment on battle plans?
McGentrix
 
  2  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:04 pm
@Olivier5,
Forward Operating Base
McGentrix
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:05 pm
@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:

Quote:
Yes, especially when you step too far into my space

Into your space? My comment on battle plans?


Baldimo, when you step in **** it's best to just scrape it off and move on. Playing with it will make people wonder about your motivations...
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Olivier5
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:09 pm
@McGentrix,
Ok, around Kandahar?

Edit: forgive my curiosity. How was it? The experience I mean.
blatham
 
  2  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:14 pm
@hightor,
Quote:
Donald Trump’s Longtime Doctor Says President Takes Hair-Growth Drug

Yes, I saw that. Odd to find this bold and self-assured man concerned with a matter so superficial. I hope the legal action against his doctor for violation of the non-disclosure-agreement (Section 2-13 Re Mr. Trump's Hair) isn't too severe.

The Clinton people missed the boat during the campaign. They should have run a version of that classic "3:00 AM White House Phone Call" ad of Trump being woken for an emergency (Starkly serious aide enters darkened bedroom then screams. Camera shifts to what looks like rabid badgers attacking the president's head).
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ossobucotemp
 
  1  
Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:15 pm
@ehBeth,
I liked some video of his dancing, ehBeth; perhaps it was you who posteda link.
I don't remember about Justin's platform - I probably looked at it and didn't just hate him. Of course this is a californian typing this post.
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Baldimo
 
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Thu 2 Feb, 2017 02:15 pm
@Olivier5,
Quote:
Oh nice. I've been to Kandahar briefly, in 2003. Pretty hot place. Loved the young US soldiers at the airport, behemoths packed up like mules and courteously smilling under the sun... Maybe you were one of them. :-)

Sorry, I wasn't. I didn't get there until 2006. We were early deployed to Pakistan at the end of 2005 after the earthquake in the Kashmir region and then did the rest of 06' in Afghanistan.

Quote:
I travelled all over Nuristan and Kunar as a development worker end 80s early 90s, based in Peshawar, Pakistan. Those were the days.

Since you had been there in the 80's and 90's, how much did the area's you were familiar with, change?

Quote:
What's a FOB?

Forward Operating Base. I was at FOB Salerno, I just looked it up, and it was in the Khost, it was the first place I had seen rain in 6 months of being in country. I saw no rain from March until Sept, I used to joke, "You would be as mad as they are if you lived in that ******* heat." Phoenix and Death Valley couldn't hold a candle to the heat I felt in Kandahar. To this day, I can't stand to getting cold. I can handle the heat, but cold is an issue. I'll never forget the sight of Dust Devils that were the size of tornadoes that moved slowly across the plains in front of the mountains. It was an impressive site.
 

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