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| State Department Asks For 300 Additional Military Personnel for Iraq |
| 2014-08-21 |
| [NBCNews] The U.S. State Department has asked for 300 additional American military personnel to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and at U.S. facilities at the Baghdad airport, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Wednesday. The request was described as under consideration by the Pentagon. The official could not identify or discuss any additional threat to those facilities or to American personnel in Iraq. The U.S. military has 849 personnel in Iraq. The early planning suggests that about 150 of the personnel would be Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is aboard the USS Bataan in the Persian Gulf, a U.S. military official said. A platoon of about 50 Marines is in Baghdad already, providing security, and would return to its base in Bahrain, resulting in a net increase of about 100 Marines in Baghdad initially. Additional troop deployments are being worked out, the official said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Because this stubborn stupid a** was too busy with life of julia and whorebama care to maintain the Iraq we so needed to control the freak show that is the middle east. FU Obama. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-08-21 14:30 |
| #5 08/21/2014 ->> "The U.S. military has 849 personnel in Iraq." 08/21/2015 ->> "The U.S. military has 184,900 personnel in Iraq." |
| Posted by: Hupiting Gray1781 2014-08-21 11:13 |
| #4 Blackwater was no longer available for comment. [Suck wind you ungrateful SOBs] |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-21 09:11 |
| #3 I heard on the (CBS-affiliate) radio last night these were all defensive guys. What I did not expect to hear was "another American President drug into a war in Iraq." Trying to disconnect Champ from cause and effect? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-08-21 07:36 |
| #2 To carry luggage, rugs, and hookah pipes when the EXFIL plane arrives ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-21 04:30 |
| #1 To guard the airforce base perimeter at Danang? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-08-21 02:02 |