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Luis G

Luis G

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are they sending you to Iraq? :(

I just read the news and it says they are sending another 35,000, to increase their presence to 120,000 soldiers in the area.
 
The United States has announced that it is sending tens of thousands of additional military personnel to the Gulf in the biggest deployment yet of its military build-up against Iraq.

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed the order to send up to 35,000 reinforcements to the region, including more marines who would spearhead any possible invasion force.

The troops are being sent to the Gulf in three amphibious warfare ships.

They will raise the strength of US forces in the region to more than 120,000.

BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says the US intention is to keep up pressure on Baghdad which, Washington says, has weapons of mass destruction.

"We are going to deploy forces and resources to be prepared," said a senior US official quoted by AFP.
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I was watching the National Guard suit up and get ready to be deployed on tv the other night. That's kinda scary. I know they're supposed to be prepared for that but you don't really think it's gonna happen. Isn't that unusual? National Guard to be deployed in wartime?
 
I think his current assignment is as the military liason and control for military personell shuffling though civilian airports. Thats not really needed over there within a purely military enviornment.. but then who knows what Ramboesque talents are laid out in his MOS.
 
My job (AFSC) is Air Transportation. That means I load and unload cargo and passengers from airplanes. It also means I'm usually on the first, or second, plane into the area, and always the last plane out of the area. The area is usually defined as close enough for rockets, but not enough for artillery.

I am not, however, going to Iraq. I'll be summering in a more southern area.
 
we'll all know a few words in Korean and Chinese before we're done
 
mt brother was at the rock gato... he helped build some of those pretty silo's they got there. he was a seabee..
 
Gato, tell them the truth *scolding*

He's misleading you all, he's actually coming north, he is coming up here to be my houseboy ;)

:D
 
He could tell you but then he'd have to kill you. ;)

When I worked for Military Car Sales, we had certain promo's depending on where someone was deployed. We had to get copies of their TDY orders to prove they were eligible and there were times I got orders for someplace strange like Australia and I would think, "What the hell are we doing in Australia??" After that, I just assumed that we had a presence in every country in the world. We probably do. :shrug:
 
In a technical sense we are since the Marines are in pretty much in every one of our embassies. I guess that makes us militarily in 180 countries in the soft sense. The hard way with actual tanks and planes is more likely 40+.
 
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