The more info I get the more enraged I become...those Marines DID NOT have to die!

The more info I get the more enraged I become about the incident yesterday.

Those Marines did not have to die.  I want the Force Protection/Planning Officers asses on a plate.  I want them stir fried and diced.

But more than that I want to take to task fellow vets, the think tank crowd, the moralizing idiots, the feminists, the socialists, the globalists and the other fools that played with the lives of our people in uniform.

BECAUSE OF YOUR MORALIZING YOU DID THE MOST HORRIBLE THING POSSIBLE.

YOU TRADED AMERICAN LIVES FOR THE LIVES OF AFGHANS.  YOU BASTARDS PUT YOUR FINGERS ON THE SCALE AND DECIDED THAT THE LIVES OF FOREIGNERS WERE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE LIVES OF YOUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN!!!

Does that make me a nationalist?  It does?  So be it.  I wear it proudly.

And the vets out there that were yelling to get the translators out...I get it.  But you also get the fact that we had green on blue attacks.  We had traitors and non-hackers that fought beside us.  We had given 20 years to them.  What more did you want?  The lives of a few more Americans?

Well you got it.

Sadly there is more to come.  Next time it'll be vehicle borne and if they're smart the first one will blow a gap in the perimeter and the second larger one will motor onto the runway taking aim at the biggest plane on deck....or a fuel depot...or munitions....

It'll be even more catastrophic and it'll cause a mass casualty event from hell.

We're seeing the most chaotic withdrawal in the modern history of US forces.  We're on the raged edge of being on the wrong side of a rout.

Open Comment Post. 27 Aug 2021

 

Time to test two concepts. Airfield Seizure and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations!

 

My modest proposal to pull the Defense Dept chestnuts out of the fire.

It's time to test two concepts.  

Airfield Seizure and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations.

First its time to activate the ENTIRE 18th Airborne Corps.  They're about to get a star on their jump wings cause they're about to drop into the hell known as Bagram.

The 18th is gonna take that airfield.

They're gonna hold that airfield and they're gonna wait for follow on forces.

Next.

The US Navy/Marine Corps along with the USAF (and elements of the SOCOM aviation) are gonna amass a MEB sized element (aviation heavy...I can't believe I'm saying this but they're tasked organized right?) and they're gonna launch from the sea, utilize USAF tankers and they're gonna fall in and relieve the 18th.

Next we're gonna have the Sea Bees/Red Horse and other airfield guru's put that thing back together.  A MV-22/CV-22/CMV-22/CH-53E/CH-47D and the Harrier/F-35B might be able to use short runways and land vertically but what I have in mind next will require C-17s (to include our allies...we're gonna need huge numbers!).

Of course SOCOM will have rolled in with the 18th Airborne and the MEB so they'll instantly start to round up Americans that want to come home.  Attached infantry from the 18th and MEB will provide support to the assaulters from the Rangers/SEALs/MARSOC/Delta.

While that is going on we're gonna roll in artillery in the form of MLRS, M-777 and more than a few heavy mortars.

The goal is to establish a HUGE firebase from hell in a country that doesn't want it there.

No outside ground patrols.

The goal is to let SOCOM do their work and to attract any idiots stupid enough to attempt an attack.

We'll broadcast in all local languages that to approach within 500 feet of the perimeter would result in death...in essence we would establish a solid and rigid no approach zone.

A few ground based radars would quickly target any crazy brave that wanted to take potshots along with shot detectors.

The goal would be to extend the mission thru December with the goal of ...

1.  Rescue any and all trapped Americans.  Being an American must mean something again and it MUST mean that we will get you home (short of you being a raging idiot ... and this activity of being in Afghanistan is on the ragged line of being idiotic).

2.  We will seek to KILL, not capture but to KILL the terrorists responsible for the assault against our Marines.

3.  We MIGHT rescue additional Afghans...we've already saved 100K.  I have a hard time believing we have left ANY translators behind.  The at risk population is simply too big to move.  In my mind its Rescue Americans, Kill Terrorists, maybe save a FEW more Afghans.

At a time in December we withdraw properly.

The 18th Airborne is flown out in C-17s.  SOCOM does their sneaky shit and goes out in the middle of a rain storm on a dark night where no one can see who the fuck they are.

Marines climb aboard MV-22s escorted by Harriers/F-35s and head out, setting off explosives on everything that couldn't be taken with us.

Once the Marines are gone and the explosives set off we have the USAF go in with B-52s and conduct an old fashion ARC-LIGHT raid, bouncing rubble and setting off seismographs. We follow up with a few MOABS dropped from B-2s.

That's my thinking.  

Tell me where I'm wrong.

4 US Marines are the victims of the "self made kill box"...

 4 Marines perished in the Biden Admin "self made kill box".

It will only get worse.  Blood is in the water and the terrorists sense an easy kill.

Yeah we have aircraft stacked over the airport ready to conduct strikes but do you really believe the Biden Admin will clear weapons hot with so many civilians around?

This clusterfuck will end in misery.

The world now knows what a "Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO)" is. Next lesson will be on "tactical withdrawal"

 The whole world now knows what a "NEO" is.  The action at the Karzai Airport will be studied by friend and foe for decades and will be written about by historians.

It is NOT our greatest moment (although from a capability standpoint it IS impressive).

Next up will be "tactical withdrawal".

The insanity of the situation that the Pentagon is facing cannot be understated.

Diplomacy will have to work.

If it doesn't then the fallout will be extreme.

The loss of national prestige intense.

The loss of life will be emotionally crippling.

Our forces are faced with a tactical withdrawal, but they're not fighting to link up with friendly forces 10 or 20 miles away (which would be bad enough).  No.  They're fighting to maintain control of an airport and withdraw men and material BY AIR!!!

The Taliban is supposedly going to allow our forces to depart but there are terrorist elements that might decide to take their portion of blood.

A few well placed mortars and we'll see large cargo aircraft burning.

A few well aimed RPGs will set ablaze helicopters.

God forbid just one or two man portable anti-aircraft missiles could bring things to a halt with the loss of over 100 people (or more).

We built ourselves a kill box and jumped into it.

Let that sink in.

Pentagon planners built a self made kill box and stuck the 82nd, 10th Mtn and 24th MEU inside it along with air assets.

We are witnessing the culmination of the worst general-ship this nation has ever seen.  The same men that lost in CENTCOM are topping that failure with the withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Yet these are the same men that hope to build a force capable of taking on the Chinese?  The same men that are confident that they know the future of warfare?

You get the leadership you deserve.  I never thought we were this bad.

We're looking at a hostage situation from hell. Al Qaida in Afghanistan/Pakistan is licking their lips!

 Everyone has been moralizing so hard about the plight of the Afghans...whether interpreters, "at risk groups" or others...that they've forgotten about the Americans trapped in that country.

It'll be front and center soon enough.

SOCOM is good but they're not that good.

We're looking at a hostage situation from hell.  Al Qaida in Afghanistan/Pakistan must be licking their lips at the thought of it.

Consider this.

If SOCOM does the hard thing (and we can assume they'll do it well) then you can bet your last dollar that they're busting ass as I type this trying to locate each and every American still in that country.  You can bet that the 160th is flying low and fast, day and night, burning up engines to get the assaulters on the ground to put bad guys in bags and rescue the trapped.

But there is an estimated 1500 Americans trapped.

Even if they play superman and get out 1300 that's still gonna be a loss.

Can you imagine seeing a person beheaded every week for the next 200 weeks?  Can you imagine the pressure that will put on ANY administration?

The Pentagon might want to focus on big wars but insurgencies aren't finished with us yet.  SOCOM will be fighting a secret war for at least another 5 years (terror groups are known to keep hostages for extended periods of time).  

My hope?

I hope no females are in this mix.  If there is then they'll be brutalized in ways I dare not imagine.  Biden fucked up badly and so did the elite.

This is the PERFECT example of MISPLACED PRIORITIES!  We should have worried about our people first and then helped the Afghans.

Moralizing and chest thumping just fucked our nation horribly and the Pentagon didn't push back hard enough (from open sources at least).

Effort To Rename Fort Benning After Decorated Lieutenant General Gains Traction

 via WARHISTORYONLINE.com

A website and petition have been launched about the effort to rename Fort Benning after Hal Moore and his wife. It has garnered support from various retired military officials, as well as military organizations like Blue Star Families.

The website reads: “Fort Moore would simultaneously recognize Hal Moore’s life, a decorated and highly regarded commander of the Vietnam War, and his wife, Julie Moore, who was equally distinguished as a leader of Army family programs, who changed how the military cares for the widows of fallen soldiers.

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I was originally against the idea of renaming bases.

My reasoning?

Many Black, Hispanic, Asian and others have been thru those bases (as well as White) and all identify with the base they served with.

We would be erasing the history of all those veterans with the renaming of those bases.  

I was initially in favor of simply telling the history of segregation/slavery/hatred and keeping it moving.

But then this story.

Hal Moore?  

A base honoring him?

I'm with that. 

Note.  You want to educate the masses on this issue?  I didn't know the history of some of the men these bases were named after.  Once you read it, if you're like me then you'll have a huge WHAT THE FUCK moment and wonder how this ever came to be.  Read about Generals Bragg, Polk, Hood, and the rest. Pretty darn damning and compelling....a reason to change is valid.  I once didn't think that.

58th Fighter Squardron TDY to Eileson Alaska

 

U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II waits before taxiing onto the runway Aug. 11, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The students integrated into highly complex missions to prepare for their first operational assignment in the Combat Air Forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Colleen Coulthard)

Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 conduct a Helicopter Support Team external lift of an M777 Howitzer

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 12th Marines, Combat Logistics Battalion 3, and Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 conduct a Helicopter Support Team external lift of an M777 Howitzer at Marine Corps Base Hawaii Area, Hawaii, Aug. 23, 2021. This training rehearsed the ability to quickly reposition fire support assets around the battlespace. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by SSgt. Olivia Knapp)

Open Comment Post. 26 Aug 2021