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re: Are there foreign militaries in the United States?
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:55 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:55 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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There were a lot at Fort Benning at all of the infantry schools. I would guess at least 10% of every school I went to there was foreign.
Benning also has the School of the Americas.
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Posted on 10/15/15 at 4:09 pm to Downtown Devin Brown
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The answer is no, there are no foreign militaries in the United States although our allies send troops here to train quite often. We have operational combat units all over the globe, no other country has operational combat units in the US
This is the root of my question. I understand allied countries come and use our facilities to train ... but I can bet we aren't just training in the 150 countries we have presence in
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My aunt has a housekeeper who's son is career military and was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord with Special Forces. About 7 or 8 years ago, he rescued a child drowning in a river. The river was in flood and it was a heroic act. Someone took some pictures and the locals reported his actions to the local authorities, along with the pics as evidence. He was decorated for his actions and his mother was very proud.
The river was in Djibouti, and the soldier was in civilian clothes when the incident took place. I asked the mother, "what the hell is _______ doing in the Horn of Africa?" Her response was, "Oh, I don't know. He travels all over. I'm just glad he's not someplace dangerous like Afghanistan or Iraq."
We've got our fingers in a lot of pies around the world. I don't know what _______ was really doing along that river, but I'm certain he wasn't there on lifeguard duty.
The answer is no, there are no foreign militaries in the United States although our allies send troops here to train quite often. We have operational combat units all over the globe, no other country has operational combat units in the US
This is the root of my question. I understand allied countries come and use our facilities to train ... but I can bet we aren't just training in the 150 countries we have presence in
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My aunt has a housekeeper who's son is career military and was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord with Special Forces. About 7 or 8 years ago, he rescued a child drowning in a river. The river was in flood and it was a heroic act. Someone took some pictures and the locals reported his actions to the local authorities, along with the pics as evidence. He was decorated for his actions and his mother was very proud.
The river was in Djibouti, and the soldier was in civilian clothes when the incident took place. I asked the mother, "what the hell is _______ doing in the Horn of Africa?" Her response was, "Oh, I don't know. He travels all over. I'm just glad he's not someplace dangerous like Afghanistan or Iraq."
We've got our fingers in a lot of pies around the world. I don't know what _______ was really doing along that river, but I'm certain he wasn't there on lifeguard duty.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 4:12 pm to Breesus
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Just build a million of those scary looking dog robots with guns and let someone here control them
Ray Bradbury would be disappointed.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 4:27 pm to martiansgohome
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I just spent a month with a bunch of Japanese.
lucky~~~
Posted on 10/15/15 at 11:43 pm to mattz1122
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Djibouti,
Has been the focus/staging point for a lot of our joint efforts with the French, and in countering both piracy and Islamist militancy in the Horn of Africa.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 11:48 pm to Downtown Devin Brown
The German Air Force conducts all its initial aircrew training in New Mexico LINK
Posted on 10/15/15 at 11:53 pm to upgrayedd
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I met some Australians at Ft. Huachuca, AZ that were training to fly drones.
I suppose you ran into some of the non-uniformed Cartel military people around there as well. Those mountains are corridors for humans and drugs from Mexico into the US.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 12:10 am to White Roach
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Djibouti
Lots of targets there.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:49 am to Downtown Devin Brown
While in the Marines I did a 2 year tour of I&I duty at Lackland Air Force Base and they have an Intel school that's full of training foreign military officers, most notably, Iraq, for some reason. I remember a big stink being made about some air force kid, recruit maybe, punching an Iraqi officer in the chow hall and him getting court martialed for it. I believe he ended up with quite a lot of time in Leavenworth.
Posted on 10/16/15 at 4:53 am to artompkins
I've not read this whole thread, but it seems logical to assume we have bases all over the world (and others don't in the US) for the same reason that neither of the World Wars were fought on US soil. We are pretty segregated geographically from recent theatres of war.
Logistically, why would the UK need a base in the US? (the same can't be said for the US in the UK, where in the past eastern europe has been a hot zone, and now the middle east).
Logistically, why would the UK need a base in the US? (the same can't be said for the US in the UK, where in the past eastern europe has been a hot zone, and now the middle east).
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