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'Big Red One' HQ will deploy to Iraq. MORE boots on the ground. | |
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Offer Upgrade  User ID: 63220182  United States09/25/2014 03:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The 1st Infantry Division headquarters will deploy to Iraq in the coming weeks as the U.S. expands its war against the Islamic State, officials announced Thursday. The Big Red One, of Fort Riley, Kansas, will be the first division headquarters to go to Iraq since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011. About 500 soldiers will deploy in late October to the Central Command area of operations, Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Thursday in a briefing with reporters. About 200 of those soldiers will be in Iraq as part of the 475-troop increase announced Sept. 10 by President Obama, Kirby said. The remaining 300 soldiers from 1st Infantry Division headquarters will be based in the CENTCOM AOR; Kirby would not specify where they will be stationed. These soldiers will support the rest of the headquarters element, “but right now there’s no plan to put them inside Iraq,” Kirby said. [link to www.armytimes.com] So now there will be about 300 additional troops to the 475 Obama said they were sending in his speech earlier this month... “but right now there’s no plan to put them inside Iraq,”  Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars. I'd like to go quietly in my sleep, like grandpa did. Not screaming in terror like the people in the back seat of the car he was driving. |
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(OP) User ID: 63220182 United States09/25/2014 03:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Why do they need a division headquarters and staff controlling this? Why does this require an infantry/armor division headquarters?  I predict they are going to send over a bunch more troops after the elections. Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars. I'd like to go quietly in my sleep, like grandpa did. Not screaming in terror like the people in the back seat of the car he was driving. |
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(OP) User ID: 63220182 United States09/25/2014 03:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Now we can pay to rebuild bases that we abandoned earlier in the administration. I wonder which donor will get the contracts? Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars. I'd like to go quietly in my sleep, like grandpa did. Not screaming in terror like the people in the back seat of the car he was driving. |
