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Edited by Noah Shachtman | Contact

Rapid Fire 9/30/05

* Iraq's one batallion army

* Doom maker's space ship

* Spy sats targeted

* SARS source found

* Grumpy old men invade nuke lab

* Best. Fundraiser. Ever.

* Who needs steriods?

Comments

Best Fundraiser ever? um, great fundraiser, but could you label this stuff Not safe for work, NSFW like FARK does? I don't want my local net goons on my head.

Posted by: Gerald at October 3, 2005 5:58 PM


This is hard for an old Retired CW4 to believe. They went from 100 to 1. I had 40 years 10 Mo 8 days in the Military and it is hard to believe those people that want peace whold let there people down. What the hell are we doing their then? I just had a son and a son in law come back from there, what were they doing there? I say let some hell brake out. Some need to be blown off the Map. We need to come to our sences and let our young people do there Job.I do not believe in killing or war but their comes a time to end our young folks from getting killed and taking the war the bad guys.

Posted by: MILTON R. WEAVER at October 3, 2005 1:13 PM


100 battalions worth of troops
# of battalions capable of independant operations:
last year: 3
now 1

the rest of those battalions are static units, police, militia.

they are using a breakdown- the 1 unit is catagory 1.
some unknown # of units are catagory 2- capable of offensive operations when supported by allied units.
the other units are likely to cut and run in the face of determined opposition.

sounds like 1000 is the nominal size but is sounds like they are actually 5-600.

pretty pathetic. two years and we cant even get a 1000 guys to fight for us.
Also, that one unit- thats the one with the kurdish peshmerga troops.

Posted by: Aaron at October 2, 2005 1:10 PM


How did they get from 100 down to 1. You mean to tell me that we can't get more men then that to stay loyal. When they say Batallion am I correct in thinking thats around 1000 troops?

Posted by: Joe at September 30, 2005 7:05 PM


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