Article

2011-01-31 Africa North

Hamas gunmen reportedly battling Egyptian security in Sinai

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by 2011-01-31 16:21|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 What do Marine contingency planners eat in times like this?
Pizza Hut?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2011-01-31 22:28|| 2011-01-31 22:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "debkafile's military sources report..."

This would tend to show with about 100% certainty that it didn't happen.

Posted by crosspatch 2011-01-31 22:46|| 2011-01-31 22:46|| Front Page Top

#3 We generally do Papa John's. It keeps better for the 3am "hungries".

Posted by Pappy 2011-01-31 22:48|| 2011-01-31 22:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Army uses the closest and cheapest that has off duty military driving for them to deliver it (Having proper military ID gets them in the gate quicker).

Something potentially this big probably has more than the Marines involved. Rangers and 82nd can get there faster than the Marines, but without most heavy gear. The Sky Soldiers (173rd Abn Bde) in Vicenza are the closest and fastest major US unit to insert (and have done follow ons with an armored unit backing them up in OIF) if needed unless we put some Marines and Navy into the Eastern Med (which has political consequences even if they don't deploy).

We had exercises in the 80's where we would deploy from Germany to the "Med" - meaning we would actually load out the gear, roll it off on one side of Italy, roll it back on shore in the south, after we flew in on transports, while the Abn secured the entry port and airfield prior to our arrival. Did it a few times on paper too, with deployment to "the eastern Mediterranean desert areas' as a general target.

Check the V Corps web site for the tools in that tool box.

Posted by OldSpook 2011-01-31 23:11|| 2011-01-31 23:11|| Front Page Top

23:19 JosephMendiola
23:11 OldSpook
23:04 Pappy
22:58 JosephMendiola
22:58 Pappy
22:57 OldSpook
22:56 OldSpook
22:55 Pappy
22:52 Pappy
22:50 CrazyFool
22:48 Pappy
22:46 crosspatch
22:41 USN,Ret
22:37 tu3031
22:28 USN,Ret
22:28 JosephMendiola
22:28 Richard Aubrey
22:16 Barbara Skolaut
22:13 swksvolFF
22:10 Dale
22:08 JosephMendiola
22:02 JosephMendiola
21:54 tipper
21:48 JosephMendiola