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| China's First Overseas Military Base Nearing Completion |
| 2017-03-15 |
| [Defensetech] The U.S. has increasing security concerns about China’s first overseas military base close to the hub of operations for U.S. Africa Command in Djibouti, a U.S. commander told Congress Thursday. Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of AfriCom, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he expected the Chinese base on the Horn of Africa to be operational later this summer. Without getting specific, Waldhauser said he recently met with Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh "and expressed our concerns about some of the things that are important to us about what the Chinese should not do at that location." The Chinese base would be about four miles from the U.S. base at Camp Lemonnier, one of the Pentagon’s largest and most important foreign military installations, where about 3,000 U.S. military personnel and contractors are assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. Camp Lemonnier is also home to Special Operations Command (Forward) ‐ East Africa, which has carried out operations against Al Shabab militants in Somalia and the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group in Yemen. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Me too. A couple of the ancestors (not Jews but sharpies from polyglot environment who picked up whatever they heard) spoke some, but I rarely saw them. Pidgin German and old records usually gets me the gist, but yeah, it'd be fun to do it for real. The catch has always been that crazy alphabet. And laziness. Maybe it's time. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-15 23:59 |
| #4 *choke* I really must learn Yiddish one of these years. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-15 21:36 |
| #3 A Jew in Djibouti one Christmas, Enjoying a new Chinese business, Encountered his chaplain. "Verklempt, eh?" asked Kaplan. "No, kafir, it's just my strabismus." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-15 21:07 |
| #2 Think positively Besoeker: some reasonable Chinese restaurants are bound to appear in the nearest town. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 11:43 |
| #1 Anyone calculate the impact on PX/BX tailoring and laundry on Lemonnier ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-15 09:54 |