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2024-03-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US military ship heading to Gaza to build port

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-10 01:54|| || Front Page|| [45 views ] Top
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#1 "Temporary pier" isn't exactly a port.

Still not something the US should be doing.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-10 05:45|| 2024-03-10 05:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Last as long as Mulberry A?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-10 07:34|| 2024-03-10 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Refloat the Arromanches Mulberry? Geez, please don't give them any ideas.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-10 08:02|| 2024-03-10 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 It follows an EU announcement that a new sea route would be opened over the weekend to allow aid to sail directly from Cyprus - the closest EU country to Gaza. The ship, Open Arms, belongs to the Spanish charity of the same name, and the food on board has been provided by US charity World Central Kitchen.

Oscar Camps, the founder of Open Arms, told the Associated Press that at the destination point - which remains a secret - a team from the World Central Kitchen has been building a pier to receive the aid.

Not good enough for Team Brandon, and The Squad.

Posted by Bobby 2024-03-10 12:55|| 2024-03-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Arromanches Mulberry

"Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944."

Yes, I expect some sinking of ships.
Making breakwaters is a secondary effect.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-10 13:16|| 2024-03-10 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Setting up another 80s Beirut type scenario.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-03-10 14:02|| 2024-03-10 14:02|| Front Page Top

#7 "It will take up to about two months to construct the temporary port, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder told reporters on Friday. It will likely take more than 1,000 U.S. troops to build it.

Once it’s constructed, large vessels carrying aid will approach a floating pier that’s offshore. The aid will then be offloaded and put on Navy support vessels — known as logistics support vessels (LSVs) — to go the rest of the way to a causeway, where the aid will then be brought ashore."

So a US Military concentration just off the Gaza strip, while technically having no boots on the ground, offering a stationary target within mortar and even small arms ranges not to mention potential kidnapping ops! All to deliver MREs to a place where they are already feeding them to the stray cats? F*cking brilliant.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1766625216015294835

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-10 15:04|| 2024-03-10 15:04|| Front Page Top

#8 One of the seldom discussed side benefits of POW camps on US soil during WWII; many Germans stayed on and added much to the country. I believe this photo is of German soldiers headed to Camp Grant South of Rockford, IL. Not suggesting anything, just a point of trivia.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-10 15:20|| 2024-03-10 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Our area had one camp - surrounded by farms n nothing but - and the prisoners were put to work. More than a few would return to this area with one ex Africa Corps applying to and getting hired by the farm he worked on as a prisoner. The access road sign for Camp Rd is still there - though few know why the road has that name.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-03-10 16:13|| 2024-03-10 16:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Camp San Luis Obispo had Italian POWs who literally worked on local farms while on parole. After the war, many asked to remain or return and were welcomed.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-10 17:24|| 2024-03-10 17:24|| Front Page Top

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