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Question: Does the Rank and File Military support withdrawal from Syria/Afghanistan?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:04 pm
I'm wondering; it seems critical re Trump's Military respect. Don't know how many are active or retired in the know, on the Poliboard, but I'd like to know how you Military Guys feel.
TIA. Merry Christmas.
TIA. Merry Christmas.
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Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:05 pm to RCDfan1950
Nope
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:05 pm to RCDfan1950
Not sure. But the rank and file military also thought invading Iraq in 2003 was a splendid idea.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:05 pm to RCDfan1950
Absolutely. We should never have been in Syria to begin with, and we never had a winning strategy in Afghanistan.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:06 pm to Redleg Guy
You active, Red? If not support...why? The Kurds?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:06 pm to RCDfan1950
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I'm wondering; it seems critical re Trump's Military respect. Don't know how many are active or retired in the know, on the Poliboard, but I'd like to know how you Military Guys feel. TIA. Merry Christmas.
Absolutely not, everyone loves being going back and forth constantly away from family and loved ones, further risking their life after coming home several times before for "insert goal that no one fricking knows"
Yes, I believe the rank and file support ending this shite.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:07 pm to RCDfan1950
17 years is a bit much.
Clear objectives?
Bush2 still sucks bigly.
Clear objectives?
Bush2 still sucks bigly.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:08 pm to Boatshoes
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Absolutely. We should never have been in Syria to begin with, and we never had a winning strategy in Afghanistan
Exactly. We watched the Soviet Union bankrupt itself in Afghanistan and then decided to do the same exact thing. You can’t win against guerilla warfare.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:09 pm to Redleg Guy
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Nope
I don’t have a problem remaining in our current combat theaters but let’s get a strategy for some definitive outcome rather than a continuation of mere occupation.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:09 pm to RCDfan1950
I suppose I'm rank and file. To paraphrase Ed Harris in The Abyss: so long as I get a check stamped "Department of Defense," I go where they tell me.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:09 pm to RCDfan1950
Yes....pull out! frick all of those goat fricking assholes. Keep our planes and drones in the air and kill anyone that looks shady. 
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:11 pm to RCDfan1950
With the army it probably depends on whether or not they already have a combat patch, CIB, etc... 
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:13 pm to RCDfan1950
When I was in Afghanistan in 2006, I thought we had been there too long and everything we were doing was to prep the Afghan Army to replace us.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:13 pm to northshorebamaman
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With the army it probably depends on whether or not they already have a combat patch, CIB, etc...
How far does the truth get stretched when in comes to POG's getting those things?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:16 pm to upgrayedd
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How far does the truth get stretched when in comes to POG's getting those things?
Everyone in a combat zone gets the patch. I've heard of POGs getting CAB's because their COB took a mortar round but can't confirm.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:34 pm to stickly
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You can’t win against guerilla warfare.
Sure you can.
You just can't do it trying to win the hearts and minds of a barbarian enemy.
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:39 pm to RCDfan1950
Yep...most know our presence is based on BS...
like opium, oil, war...
We can deploy and destroy any country in the world in 3 days...there is no reason for a permanent presence when you have that sort of power...
For proof, ask Qaddafi and Saddam.
like opium, oil, war...
We can deploy and destroy any country in the world in 3 days...there is no reason for a permanent presence when you have that sort of power...
For proof, ask Qaddafi and Saddam.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:43 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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. But the rank and file military also thought invading Iraq in 2003 was a splendid idea.
We also thought we were going to give them the Japan treatment...
That didn't happen, and other powers thought otherwise...
Also, we were deploying nonstop babysitting Saddam, so just to shut those deployments down and stop putting troops at risk from continual risk at
Khobar Towers and the USS Cole type events
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:47 pm to IceTiger
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Also, we were deploying nonstop babysitting Saddam, so just to shut those deployments down and stop putting troops at risk from continual risk at
Khobar Towers and the USS Cole type events
I get your logic, but we created a situation that was far worse, in both human, and material cost.
The status quo ante bellum was cheaper.
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 6:48 pm to RCDfan1950
They're military.
The don't have opinions.
They go where they are sent.
The don't have opinions.
They go where they are sent.
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