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2003-11-11 Afghanistan

New Coalition Afghan Operation Under Way

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-11 09:44|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 what rewards does the Koran promise three "enemy soldiers" fleeing like terrified little girls?

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-11 11:38:29 AM|| 2003-11-11 11:38:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Frank,
Perhaps they get to be one of the 72 virgins......

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-11 11:50:27 AM|| 2003-11-11 11:50:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jeez.. sometimes I think we should relieve the 10th Mt. (PBUT) and send in the Rangers. (TX). This sounds not like a war but just plain old banditry. (Not that I have anything against banditry mind you).

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-11 12:57:11 PM|| 2003-11-11 12:57:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "If you're the police, where are your badges?"
"badges?"

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-11 1:18:59 PM|| 2003-11-11 1:18:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like the grunts from the 10th are doing just fine. It's apparently going on way, WAY up in the mountains, about 13k feet. Wonder if the taliban is still convinced we won't go after them in small infantry units?

I just hope some of those NCOs reup and pass their knowledge and experience along at Benning.

Posted by 80g in the headpan 2003-11-11 6:12:25 PM|| 2003-11-11 6:12:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 About the grunts from the 10th, one serie of articles, interesting, if a little dated ("operation Anaconda") : http://www.geocities.com/equipmentshop/realmountaindivision.htm
(doesn't seem to get the link thingie to work; my bad)

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-11 7:13:50 PM|| 2003-11-11 7:13:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 80g, 10th Mtn is up in Ft. Drum, NY. I think advanced infantry school along w/the 75th Ranger Regt are in Benning.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-11 7:28:39 PM|| 2003-11-11 7:28:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I mean when they finish their current enlistment and go to their next station. It just seems (to me at least) that too many of the Rangers and grunts from Somalia made the decision to pull the plug on the military, maybe out of bitterness? That experience would seem to be pretty valuable to pass on to the 'kids' that came after them. The senior NCOs I remember most were the guys who had been in Panama, S America, and even Vietnam (the really old guys); IOW the guys who had 'seen the elephant'. That's the kind of institutional knowledge the Army needs to retain, is my point.

And if they stay in they might pass along their knowledge and experience at the infantry school, oorah.

Posted by 80g in the headpan 2003-11-11 7:50:47 PM|| 2003-11-11 7:50:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "That's the kind of institutional knowledge the Army needs to retain, is my point. And if they stay in they might pass along their knowledge and experience at the infantry school, oorah."

-roger, I concur. Resident knowledge of combat is an extremely helpful thing to have amongst your senior enlisted leaders. Does wonders for the young lads and helping to develop the young officers (especially platoon commanders). Senior officers w/combat knowledge is also great. So long as they're not so far away from "the fight" to utilize it.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-11 9:05:43 PM|| 2003-11-11 9:05:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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