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2006-10-22 Great White North

Canuck sailors may soldier on Afghan soil

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not a bad attitude! There is no such thing as a "rear area" in the war against islamonazis. They'll attack anywhere they can, whether it's in Afghanistan, Iraq, Great Britain, Germany, or Cleveland. Every military member should receive at least SOME training as an infantryman, regardless of branch of service (and yes, that DOES include my old alma mater, the Air Force).

I wrote a training scenario where islamist terrorists attacked RAF Alconbury, in the UK. It was scheduled to be a three-day exercise. If it had been implemented and run as I set it up, we expected casualties to be in excess of 80%, because nobody expected to fight that kind of war and weren't trained to defend against it. Every scenario before had been a US/NATO against the Soviet Union. NOTHING I set up in that scenario was outside the capability of a well-trained cadre of 60 or so terrorists with the backing of either one of a half-dozen Middle East countries. We haven't changed that much to this day, unfortunately. One day it's going to rise up and bite us big-time.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-10-22 17:41|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-10-22 17:41|| Front Page Top

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