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Senior Pentagon soldier to ISIS: Surrender or get beaten with entrenchment tool

Rexedgar said:
Perhaps you can provide some information as to how you young’uns came up with “E” for entrenchment as opposed to entrenching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenching_tool
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I see, 'ing' instead of 'ment'. Meh.

They issuing Humvees to Abn Infantry in those days? Thought you ‘warriors’ jumped and marched....
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D company was heavy weapons, 11h. Humvees, mk 19s, 50s, TOWs. The humvees were dropped before us, so they don't land on us. On the ground, we remove the chute and get to it. We worked 'em hard, serious off road adventure; then someone else fixes them and pays for it, and we do it again.
 
Rexedgar said:
Thanks for the wall of text reply. What do eye candy soldiers know about TA-50?
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Youse knowledge of your own Army is limited so I am pleased and honored to inform. The tunnel vision over there also applies to the ceremonial guard units of all the armed forces in the Military District of Washington, the Joint Force Command National Capital Region.

Here's one by an Old Guardsman. Y'see, we have a sense of humor besides....



3rd Infantry Regiment Presidential Salute Battery of The Old Guard


The video is of the Presidential Salute Battery of the 3 IR TOG, Ft. Meyer, Va. The brick houses you see across Summerall Parade Field are the homes of Pentagon generals who reside at Ft. Meyer. The view is from the Company E (Honor Guard Company) quarters of TOG. The Echo Company guyz of 2nd ptn doing the video from their bay tweak the Battery a round of their own (scattered and faint) applause at the conclusion. They noted the extraordinary number of rounds fired, 21 being the usual to include rehearsals or practice. Ask me sometime about the cleats on the heels and soles of TOG footwear -- the hollow wooden heels with metal strips on the inside that make the required sounds of clicking with the clomping that one hears clearly in this video.







Live Fire Mortar Range - Presidential Salute Battery 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment The Old Guard


Presidential Salute Battery of 3 IR TOG on the live fire mortar range Ft. A.P. Hill, Virginia.

These boys are versatile if nothing else eh. Check out the mortar stuff old timer cause it's worth a few chuckles. I'd bet you thought at 0:25 the grunt wuz gonna put his face right on down into the tube to take a look around inside eh. This one's worth your look though cause youse can watch the grunt get his ass blown off firing one right at the end. Note too btw the Military District of Washington patch insignia at the left shoulder sleeve -- you can't miss it so I thought I'd ID it for youse.







3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard)

The Old Guard Remembers 9/11


Armed patrols seen on Tuesday September 11, 2001 at Ft. Meyer Virginia next to the Pentagon and the billet of the Army 3rd Infantry Regiment. Note in the video the three troops of Company A Alpha of 3 IR who got the flag and delivered it to the Pentagon building to drape with Arlington County VA fellow first responders.


SFC James Jones Delta Company, 1st Btn, 3rd Inf Rgt the Old Guard describing the company's arrival to the Pentagon as the regiment's advance force on the morning of September 11, 2001: "The scene there is one that will forever be etched in my mind. After 27 months in combat, it still remains as one of the most dramatic days that I've ever seen in my life."


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3rd Infantry Regiment the Old Guard arrives in full battle rattle at Pentagon September 11, 2001.


The attacks on September 9/11 changed America forever. Many units responded to the fight on terrorism but only one Army unit was the first to respond to the attacks on the homeland. The Old Guard, America's oldest active infantry regiment, was the first Army unit on the scene at the Pentagon after the 9/11 attack.
Your welcome thx.

We recall that on 9/11 1st Battalion formed a security perimeter around the Pentagon. Fourth battalion got into protective suits and entered the Pentagon as search and rescue. Search and recovery continued to September 30th.


Each winter during the off tourist season in the nation's capital The Old Guard 3rd Infantry Regiment goes to Ft. A.P. Hill in central Virginia for field training exercises. Sometimes the training venue is Ft. Indiantown Gap Pennsylvania. It gets cold out there for a couple of months lemme tell youse. And I wuz in TOG before there was night vision so during the many -- many -- night exercises you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. It's always Fun and Games in The Old Guard.

The bottom line chief is that to do this you gotta have some Hollywood in ya. Lots of it in fact. I like to think of myself as carrying on in the Ronald Reagan tradition of making movies for the Army as Reagan did during all of WW II.
 
Major Lambda said:
My tactic

1) Lots of sea launched Tomahawk missiles from US Navy Ships.

2) US Air Force Aircraft dropping more ordinance

3) Artillery. LOTS of Artillery launched and set for air burst .

4) Nuke Weapons dropped on Yemen and Iran.

5) A night strike and Military ordinance blitz on the Horn of Africa where Al-Qaeda, Al-Shaboob , Isis .....and other terror waste lives and trains. Well..... i guess we could nuke it also.




Major Lambda
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Gee, that strategy and those tactics have been in use for a number of years. It rotates the stock in ammo inventory, but otherwise has been a Major Disaster.
 
Major Lambda said:
My tactic

1) Lots of sea launched Tomahawk missiles from US Navy Ships.

2) US Air Force Aircraft dropping more ordinance

3) Artillery. LOTS of Artillery launched and set for air burst .

4) Nuke Weapons dropped on Yemen and Iran.

5) A night strike and Military ordinance blitz on the Horn of Africa where Al-Qaeda, Al-Shaboob , Isis .....and other terror waste lives and trains. Well..... i guess we could nuke it also.

Major Lambda
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More DAKKA...
 
Major Lambda said:
My tactic

1) Lots of sea launched Tomahawk missiles from US Navy Ships.

2) US Air Force Aircraft dropping more ordinance

3) Artillery. LOTS of Artillery launched and set for air burst .

4) Nuke Weapons dropped on Yemen and Iran.

5) A night strike and Military ordinance blitz on the Horn of Africa where Al-Qaeda, Al-Shaboob , Isis .....and other terror waste lives and trains. Well..... i guess we could nuke it also.




Major Lambda
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Fascinating.
 
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