OT: All US Comabt Troops have been evacuated

#54
#54
Kevinyaheard said:
I was there during the invasion (March03-Feb04). In a way, it seems like forever ago, and in another, only yesterday...

R.I.P. CPL Gavin Lee Neighbor
10 June 2003
Baghdad, Iraq
Fell during an RPG attack at a Weapons Amnesty Point... You are never forgotten....

Cco. 3/325 Airborne Infantry Regiment
82nd Airborne Division
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Thank you for your service sir!:salute:
 
#55
#55
tnvols72 said:
I know first hand that there is some troops that is coming home this month but most units are being replaced with other units as I speak.My wife is currently in Iraq with 3rd ID and her unit is waiting to be replaced by another unit and we still have 2 other units thats deployed right now.
Dont believe everything you hear on the news.
Yankee Vol is right on this.
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So more lies to make it look like we are leaving when we really are not. That is what I figured by the wording of "combat" troops. Thanks for nothing Obama. More lies but what else can we expect from you. I am sure that only Fox will point this lie out. CNN and the rest of the liberal media will try to fool the voters with this lie.
 
#56
#56
The VOLS are my team! I never cheer againts or boo any of the service academies even when they play us these young men may some day be asked to die for my freedom.
 
#57
#57
BigOrangeArsenal said:
You think this has anything to do with North Korea making threats against us?
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Speaking from what info we are recieving in the military, this withdrawal follows the timeline that we have had setup all along.

Afghanistan is now the main focus, except we arent trying to do the same thing we did in Iraq, which is to setup a Democratic State. Our job in Afghan is to win the hearts and minds of the ppl so that the volunteers to the Taliban will drop, and to defeat the Taliban in Afghan and Pakistan.

Wars take a long time, it's not something that can be done overnight. Our society lives in a world where they expect everything to happen fast and get immediate results. These ppl are fighting for what they believe in, no matter how ignorant it may seem, they believe in their cause. Just like in Vietnam, this is going to be a drawn out, Gorilla-like warfare with lots of lost American lives.

Not defeating the Taliban now would only improve their strengths because they would argue that they sent the great Americans running. Meaning more volunteers to their cause and more dead civilians in terrorist attacks around the world.

We, as military members, need all of the support our Country can give us and it means more than you could ever know to hear how much we are appreciated.

Thanks everyone, and remember, if you see a troop in your town, in line at gas station, at a restaurant, please go up to him and tell him how much it means to you that he is defending your country. And send a care package to our troops with special things from home like magazines, candy, gum, toothe paste, the things we take for granted every day.

That really is what makes those long deployments seem all worth while.

GBO!
 
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#60
Just coming back from Iraq being part of the last Combat Brigade to leave, all brigades in Iraq now are Advisory Brigades and will continue to withdraw over the years, but there will be some kind of presence for years. The brigade I am in is a Stryker brigade and they do not do well in Afganistan because of the Mountains and the limited mobility. If we go back to Iraq it will be an Advisory presence. We are supposed to do some exercises and training to prepare for any conflict with North Korea since we are stationed in Washington. Even coming back from Iraq in late July if N. Korea steps up its aggressions and decides to attack S. Korea all of the Stryker Brigades on Fort Lewis will go there.
 
#61
#61
KB5252 said:
I'm not so sure, I think Karzai is playing both sides here. He isn't calling the shots here so much as he is trying to work with both sides, US/Taliban.
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Karzai recently fired two of his most pro American anti-taliban ministers and appointed two to replace them who have a history of involvement and cooperation with the taliban.

Karzai threatened to join the taliban if America wasn't more careful about 'civilian' casualties.

No doubt Karzai is playing both ends against the middle and Obama's claim that he is pulling out all American troops by mid 2011 forces Karzai into cooperating with the Taliban which he says will be able to participate in the political process of the post American islamic republic
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Jake Tate said:
Speaking from what info we are recieving in the military, this withdrawal follows the timeline that we have had setup all along.

Afghanistan is now the main focus, except we arent trying to do the same thing we did in Iraq, which is to setup a Democratic State. Our job in Afghan is to win the hearts and minds of the ppl so that the volunteers to the Taliban will drop, and to defeat the Taliban in Afghan and Pakistan.

Wars take a long time, it's not something that can be done overnight. Our society lives in a world where they expect everything to happen fast and get immediate results. These ppl are fighting for what they believe in, no matter how ignorant it may seem, they believe in their cause. Just like in Vietnam, this is going to be a drawn out, Gorilla-like warfare with lots of lost American lives.

Not defeating the Taliban now would only improve their strengths because they would argue that they sent the great Americans running. Meaning more volunteers to their cause and more dead civilians in terrorist attacks around the world.

We, as military members, need all of the support our Country can give us and it means more than you could ever know to hear how much we are appreciated.

Thanks everyone, and remember, if you see a troop in your town, in line at gas station, at a restaurant, please go up to him and tell him how much it means to you that he is defending your country. And send a care package to our troops with special things from home like magazines, candy, gum, toothe paste, the things we take for granted every day.

That really is what makes those long deployments seem all worth while.

GBO!
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:salute: From a Vietnam era veteran.


Have you read the US Army paper on 'fourth generation warfare?'
 
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