Reply #51: I typed a large response but my comp freaked out

[sanskritwarrior]

so let me summarize......


There are 3 main roads into Iraq, One from Turkey, supports all Northern based units. One from Jordan supports all Marines, one from Kuwait MSR Tampa. The Iraqi insurgency is a light infantry force, they are incapable of interdicting our supply lines. If you wish to ask me how I know this, please PM and I will gladly answer. Yes they can harass us, yes they can kill people, they are incapable of interdicting our supply lines. Give them some tanks and some air support and I'll give you a maybe. A force whose largest weapon is an IED is not capable of interdicting the supply lines of an Mech force. They are not capable of such an act. They are capable of killing Americans and making us take focus away from fighting to protecting our supply lines.


There are 5 major airfields, Mosul aint one of them, in fact there is one American Cav Squadron in Mosul now, the Iraqis are doing 90% of the security there in Mosul. They need to do 90% everywhere else so most of us can come home........Anyway

The 5 major airfields are as follows:

BIAP: Baghdad, Coalition HQ
FOB Speicher: Tikrit, 25th ID HQ
FOB Warrior: Kirkuk 3rd BCT, 25th ID...Air Force Expeditionary wing
TQ: Al Taqqadum in Al Anbar province. Marine airhead
Tallil: In southern Iraq near Nasiriyah

And you would not use engineer units to keep a "land bridge" <---I'm not even sure what that means. National guard units are mobilized as needed, if the DOD in their :sarcasm: infinite wisdom decides it needs a California Engineer NG unit, it is probably because a computer spit out their unit's name. When I was in Iraq back in 2005 our Signal company for our FOB was a Cali NG Signal unit, deployments happen because someone feeds the criteria into a computer and the computer spits out the unit that meets the manning requirements and mission profile.

Sorry if I seem abrupt, my previous post was eloquent and very long, I didn't feel like retyping it all. Like I said the last time this issue came up, this isn't personal, I'm not a freeper, I just hate bullcrap about the military that people take from myth and make it fact in about 20 posts.

If anyone wishes to discuss this in greater detail please PM me, I'm not looking for an argument, I'm not saying YAY WAR!!!!!!!! I dread my deployment in December, however the person I am responding to is incorrect. I don't feel hostile at all, I just want to correct the misconception.