But we have learned a lot sense those days, I think we are better prepared to go room to room. The training that goes in to the urban fighting is fairly intense, and these guys know what they are doing.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:55 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WOW? > > yes, but the coalition forces didn;t go as far as Bagdad in 91. > > w > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 March 2003 13:44 > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > The same comments about room-to-room fighting were made about the action > in > 1991 and that never came to fruition. I'm guessing that some actions have > already started or will start before the 48 hours has elapsed. > > Also, I want to thank whoever said this: > >>However now that we are there, now that > >>the decision has been made, we need to stop debating this as a country > and > >>support our troops. > > Enough of us (myself included) on this list are veterans and know the > definite need for support from home. Pray if you do that, send energies > if > you do that, but whatever you do, show those abroad your support. > > I'm going to be talking to a few teacher friends of mine about having > their > classes do an Any Soldier letter writing campaign. That's where kids > write > a letter to a soldier and they get sent in bulk. They're placed where the > serviceperson can get to them, and if they want to reply they can. > > Until Later! > Hatton > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:12 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: WOW? > > > > > > huh tractor tell us more? > > > > > > Yea i know i find it crazy that we broadcast all this crap i mean we > > basically gave saddam 48 hour notice thats crazy now he knows for sure > its > > on and he can hit first or do something else nasty. I would have > > prefered if > > we just do it and then find out later we started its hard to keep > > secrets in > > todays world i guess at least secrets like a war and such :). And i > think > > the Generals are going to be in for a big suprise i mean urban fighting > as > > you probably know is still pretty much the same as it was in WWII & WWI > it > > sucks our technology is way less of a factor in street to street > fighting. > > Does anyone have to look back to stalingrad when the stupid germans had > to > > try and take the city street by street? I mean its not going to > > be the same > > type disaster but just to show the point that urban fighting is going to > > take alot out of the troops. Maybe i could be wrong maybe we'll just > sweep > > through and kick ass without many losses but for all our > > technology you have > > guys fighting room to room in a building you can run into ambushes you > can > > run into things where our standoff weapons don't matter. > > > > Oh well i wish them all the best of luck, i hope the bonehead doesn't > send > > too many of my friends and family to their deaths. My old boss if > > a FAC with > > a Marine Regiment who is on the move this morning. He's a major > > now and they > > pulled him from Inactive Reserves to come up and take over a FAC job, he > > used to be a chinook jockey but in Gulf War 1 he got pulled to be a FAC. > > Hopefully he is going to be alright, sitting in an Abrams is probably a > > pretty safe place about now. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:00 AM > > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > > > > T minus 48 hours (from 8:00 PM last night) until we take the gloves off. > > > > Kind of disturbing really. I mean the whole idea of fighting a > > war this way > > is really alien to me. We were always taught that force > > protection and not > > letting anyone know who what where or when were very important. I mean > as > > it sits now you can go in any major news outlet's web site and > > get an order > > of battle for our forces, locations, key officers. It's insane from an > > intelligence perspective. > > > > Another thing that bothered me was what some of the talking heads > > had to say > > about the coming conflict. They had a retired general on NBC right > after > > his speech who didn't think that the coming battle was any big deal. He > > though that we would just sweep right through Iraq and be done with it. > > Guess he never went on a patrol in a city. > > > > Don't misconstrue this to mean that I am against this action > > completely. I > > have some issues with it (most notably that no war is being > > declared, and I > > don't think that congress has the constitutional ability to hand off > that > > responsibility to the president). However now that we are there, now > that > > the decision has been made, we need to stop debating this as a country > and > > support our troops. > > > > BTW how has the commute been this morning for all the DC members? All > the > > roads around here are closed down for the moron on the tractor at > > the mall. > > I just wonder why they haven't tazed the kid and pulled him off > > the tractor. > > > > Tim > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:11 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: WOW? > > > > > > what did hw say, i missed it > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 18 March 2003 12:08 > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: WOW? > > > > > > I come in this morning and see NO topics about dubyas talk last > > night? Man i > > was waiting and waiting and then finally there it was what i knew > > would pop > > out....the hitler reference :) > > > > > > -- > > Bill Wheatley > > Senior Database Developer > > Macromedia Advanced Coldfusion 5 Developer > > Ediets.com > > ICQ - 417645 > > Aim - Bill Ediets > > 954-360-9022 x159 > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
