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| U.S. sending troops to Chad to find Nigerian girls |
| 2014-05-22 |
| [Fox News] The Obama administration has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Islamist militants Boko Haram. Say what? Where are the French? It's their turf, no ? Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Myles Caggins said the team will mostly be made up of Air Force personnel responsible for operating a single unmanned, unarmed drone. The drone will be flying out of an airstrip in Chad -- which shares a portion of its western border with northeastern Nigeria -- with a mission to search for the girls in Nigeria. 20 USAF drone support personnel, 60 USAF personnel to support billeting, AC units, rec center, and the procurement of French rations. Other U.S. service members will be assigned to act as an armed security force tasked with protecting the team. The team was scheduled to arrive Wednesday. Other "service members" .....intentionally undefined. Obama formalized the decision with a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and the Senate notifying lawmakers about the steps underway to assist in the return of the abducted girls. The Champ desperately needs a win, any win. Wednesday's news conference was definitely not a win. Admission of any type of healthcare failure IS NOT AN OPTION! Shinstucki is stuck until this piece of crap blows over and we can get |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Other U.S. service members If he is interesting in finding sex slave girls, this is his secret service detail. One drone for the area of something like Texas 4 weeks+ after the crime? Talk about doing the absolute bare minimum to not embarrass the wife. Hell those girls were sold wedded bedded or deaded before michelle even deactivated the safeties on our hashtags. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-05-22 16:45 |
| #5 Refresh my memory... how many military personnel were sent into Bengazi? |
| Posted by: regular joe 2014-05-22 16:24 |
| #4 This looks like an excellent area to stay the hell out of. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-22 16:12 |
| #3 Needless to say, logistics would be a challenge. I'd wager it to be Cameroon or Chad, well away from their operational headquarters. Just a guess however. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-22 15:52 |
| #2 Kidnapped in Nigeria; looking in Chad. Not a geographic expert on Africa. Are they looking under the street lamp because that's where the light's better? Or have they got some - you know - actual intelligence? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-05-22 15:36 |
| #1 The French way would be the sudden appearance of the girls in a safe area and deafening silence from Boko Haram. All radical groups, be they Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, or Democrats eventually over reach the tolerance of the general public and that is their downfall. Nigeria has reached its limits with these clowns. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-05-22 14:52 |