[On a serious note.]

About a year ago I stumbled upon an online version of the Army's Urban Battlefield Maneuvers (or some similarly named manual, I don't recall the exact name).  It covered everything from points of fire, covering fire, strategies for clearing rooms, bounding, and even hopping over cellar windows so you don't get your ankles blown off. 

 

Just reading it kinda' freaked me out...

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Stop stumbling...give you wife a little man butter instead of researching Bill Murray and his Urban Assault Vehicle

"oh no" yeah, "oh no, No John.....I'll drive"

[On a serious note.]

I'm also hopeful that one of the reasons it has taken this long is that hopefully we have Iraqis inside the city ready to spring into action.

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I simply put no hope in Iraqi forces doing much of anything to assist us...Let my Navy boys lob some cruise missiles in there

[On a serious note.]

I read we have 10,000 troops in position around the city.  I also read where they anticipate booby traps, ambushes, suicide bombers, and being on the recieving end of RPGs fired in close quarters. 

 

But do we know how many bad guys there are in Fallujah?

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my question is...are our young fighting forces trained properly to face the insurgent tactics...its like being in jungles of Vietnam....God speed to those boys

[Is it stupid to think that....]

To save some time, do a search on posts on this topic by BiB, and you'll get a lot of the answers.  You may also ask SDS to restore the old server for the really good answers.

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I was reading some "middle of the road" articles online anfd the thoughts came to mind..i'm trying to better prepare myself to compete on the board...

[Is it stupid to think that....]

I'll let the guyas who know military strategy give the obvious answer. 

 

Hint, it's not a ploy.

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So my good fella you are in agreement that dispite what we were told (WMD, blah, blah blah) it was in fact a leverage tactic. Leverage against Muslim nations?...leverage against European nations?

[Is it stupid to think that....]

the invasion of Iraq was a ploy buy this administration to gain leverage in the region as well as in the world stage?

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not buy...by

[Is it stupid to think that....]

the invasion of Iraq was a ploy buy this administration to gain leverage in the region as well as in the world stage?

[Can we change this to the 'right wing' board?]

And you're a friggin' Bledsoe fan, no less.  You SHOULD be ripped on... 

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Tom just too lazy to change it to VaBeachLosmanfan

[What should be the basis of our government???]

the bible or the constitution??? Just a question i think has meaning these days.

[Can we change this to the 'right wing' board?]

There's plenty of Democrats here who don't get ripped on.  Why?  Because they're not friggin' idiots like you are. 

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Thank god I never get ripped on....

[So let me get this straight....]

They drive waaay too slow for my liking up there.

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I live in Washington..Annual Rain Festival...Jan 1 -Dec 31..no actualy is is gorgeous up there..I think Seattle is a great city...but GG, its not Amsterdam for sure

[Kerry's words ... Cheney's "mandate" ...]

Yet he also said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." and "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." 

"As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. "

 

By the Christian doctrine, we Sin because God gave us free will.  Jesus did not want to take that away.  He would want all to follow the principles, but would not advocate condemning someone for not following.  He sought not to punish sinners but restoring by reaching out to them.  What of Matthew?  He was a tax collector, whose profession was one of the most hated and corrupt at the time.  Did Jesus condemn him?  No, he dined with him, and asked Matthew to follow him.

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Hey all I can say is WWJDD!!!!!!!!!

WHAT WOULD JOHNNY DAMON DO????????

Paise Johnny!!!!!!...all championships are possible through him.

[What Military Division Should I Join?]

With that attitude, I suspect you would do best joining the Navy and hotbunking with your buddies. 

 

I am sure you'll enjoy dressing in drag and sucking raisins out of a greased up fat guys naval.

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I certainly enjoyed it......

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

In all honesty, thank you all for your service.  God bless you, every one.

 

However, this thread explains so very much about the views of some of my fellow Bills fans.  We will never see eye to eye on many issues.

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in general i'm liberal...but many conservative views..i know i type like stevestojan...but i respect all my fellow warriors on the board..Thank you

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

Intel huh? I actually had you pegged as a cook or a storekeeper. Hmmm

 

As for me, 19 years and counting in the Corps as a Combat Engineer.

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Nope i scored too high on ASVAB....they wanted me to go OCS...i declined

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

I enlisted in the army a week after I turned 18.  I was a paratrooper in the 82nd airborne for 3 years.  Jumped out of planes, slept in the mud, and went to ranger school.  Out of 13 guys that arrived to my battalion that day.  Only two of us EST at the end of our enlistment.  The others were killed, medically discharged, or kicked out for drugs. 

 

I switched to the "other side" and became an intelligence analyst in the national guard.  I did a deployment to the desert with them, as well as spent time working at the south eastern intelligence center.

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I salute you ...jumping out planes

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

I've never served. I'm really sixteen and I just enjoy being a kid screwing with people. I always lie, and make lots of stuff up. You can be whatever you want to be here. People have told me so.

 

What's your point? You spent your time going to school. I would have liked to.

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you didn't look 16 when i met you at Gators...a mature 16 then

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

Easily...The Bush Company still around?

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as far as i know it is......

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

try living there for 18 months. 

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now i think i could do Anchorage or Juneau

[Anti-Bush Rally in SF]

It's more the legislature.  Apparently "Congress shall make NO law" has a different meaning to them.

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its such a touchy subject...guess what ..liberal VaBeachbledsoefan detest the ACLU

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

I've been there, though thankfully the weather was decent and we didn't stay the night.

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i hated the storms that started blowing rain...switches to blowing sleet then switches to blowing snow in 20 minutes...throw an earthquake in there too

[Anti-Bush Rally in SF]

Lame excuse.......sorry.

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go ahead and poke fun at me for teaching special education....feel free

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

Damn...makes me sound like a Martian or something..

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hard for people to understand life on the "Rock"

[how many members of the PPP have ...]

Man does that sound gay.  Not that there's anything wrong with that. 

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Well lots of cold night on Adak during those willywas

[Anti-Bush Rally in SF]

As it should be.  Actually, the courts have raped it far too much.

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do we need less freedom in the court's eyes?