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I've got buddies telling me about the war to come. . .

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stebesplace

Senior member
Some friends of mine in Iraq and the boarder zones, have gotten in touch with me alerting me that we are slowly bombing iraq with their companies, and that next week we may prepare for war. . .

ohh boy. . .

where's my party hat when i need it the most :frown:
 
I'm sure its true. .. but man it seems civilans know more about this stuff than the people in the army. . .i have alot of friends in the army, and half don't know wtf is going on. . .
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
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In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
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Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
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In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
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Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
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Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
 
Bombing in Iraq isn't out of the ordinary. It's rather common to bomb anti-aircraft and radar facilities in the no-fly zones.
 
Originally posted by: everman
Bombing in Iraq isn't out of the ordinary. It's rather common to bomb anti-aircraft and radar facilities in the no-fly zones.
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True.

Also, stebesplace, average military troops don't know that date of the attack.....and even if he did, he should be fully aware of this little thing called COMSEC.

I seriously doubt many civilians know the exact date of attack either.
 
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
Click to expand...

In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
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Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
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My uncle was E-9 in the Navy with 26 years in service. He was based outside of Da Nang, towards Marble Mountain with the Marines. He lived in a bunker when he wasn't in the field supervising the Medical Corpsmen of I Corps. He used to fly into hot zones just to bring up the morale of his Corpsmen and the grunts. I ran into him and we got drunk after I landed in Long Binh and was traveling North to Dong Ha in search of my unit.

At the time he was the second highest ranking enlisted man in Viet Nam. There was an Army Sergeant Major who outranked him due to time-in-service by 2 years.

He served with Nimitz in the Pacific in WWII, spent 2 years in Korea and a year in VN. God rest his soul. What a man.

 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
Click to expand...

In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
Click to expand...

Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
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My uncle was E-9 in the Navy with 26 years in service. He was based outside of Da Nang, towards Marble Mountain with the Marines. He lived in a bunker when he wasn't in the field supervising the Medical Corpsmen of I Corps. He used to fly into hot zones just to bring up the morale of his Corpsmen and the grunts. I ran into him and we got drunk after I landed in Long Binh and was traveling North to Dong Ha in search of my unit.

At the time he was the second highest ranking enlisted man in Viet Nam. There was an Army Sergeant Major who outranked him due to time-in-service by 2 years.

He served with Nimitz in the Pacific in WWII, spent 2 years in Korea and a year in VN. God rest his soul. What a man.
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What's E9 and the other designations mean?
 
Originally posted by: Bignate603
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
Click to expand...

In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
Click to expand...

Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
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My uncle was E-9 in the Navy with 26 years in service. He was based outside of Da Nang, towards Marble Mountain with the Marines. He lived in a bunker when he wasn't in the field supervising the Medical Corpsmen of I Corps. He used to fly into hot zones just to bring up the morale of his Corpsmen and the grunts. I ran into him and we got drunk after I landed in Long Binh and was traveling North to Dong Ha in search of my unit.

At the time he was the second highest ranking enlisted man in Viet Nam. There was an Army Sergeant Major who outranked him due to time-in-service by 2 years.

He served with Nimitz in the Pacific in WWII, spent 2 years in Korea and a year in VN. God rest his soul. What a man.
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What's E9 and the other designations mean?
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Ranks
 
A couple newspapers are reporting the start to be on March 13th-14th. I'd put a bet on it. Let's go already!

Best wishes and support for your friends kicking ass over there, stebes. Be proud of 'em- wish I was there.
 
This party started rockin around February 16th. Bombs and Missiles intermingle with the locals pretty regularly now.

~wnied~
 
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
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I think that he works with air defense, being in charge of networking the SAMs together and such.
 
hmm.. SlowSS..wouldn't that be more of OPSEC than COMSEC.... either way... shouldn't told ya regardless if its true or not... Cause if they dont know they could guess right.... and that would not be a good thing for the otehr side to know...
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy


My uncle was E-9 in the Navy with 26 years in service. He was based outside of Da Nang, towards Marble Mountain with the Marines. He lived in a bunker when he wasn't in the field supervising the Medical Corpsmen of I Corps. He used to fly into hot zones just to bring up the morale of his Corpsmen and the grunts. I ran into him and we got drunk after I landed in Long Binh and was traveling North to Dong Ha in search of my unit.

At the time he was the second highest ranking enlisted man in Viet Nam. There was an Army Sergeant Major who outranked him due to time-in-service by 2 years.

He served with Nimitz in the Pacific in WWII, spent 2 years in Korea and a year in VN. God rest his soul. What a man.
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Yeah, my Uncle John was in Vietnam. He was in a MASH-like unit (sorry, I don't know a whole lot about medical stuff in the military). I don't ask him about it, because I don't want to upset him. He's been 30 years I think.

I have a huge amount of respect for him.
 
Gee, I thought we were going to let Iraq take their own sweet time at disabling the weapons that they never claimed to have.
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If war breaks out next week, it will be none too early. Rock on U.S.A. - bomb 'em of you got 'em. 😉

Personally, as an individual who has held a security clearance in the past, I don't feel that "friends" in the military should be disclosing any type of information that could put the U.S. at risk - even if it's as simple as "we could be at war next week." All it takes is small snippets of news like this to get released to the media where they can disseminate it - right to where the Iraqis are listening to their radios or watching their TVs and hearing/seeing this information. Fortunately, the "true" details are only known by a dozen or so "top" officials at the Pentagon.
 
Originally posted by: eloric the 2nd
hmm.. SlowSS..wouldn't that be more of OPSEC than COMSEC.... either way... shouldn't told ya regardless if its true or not... Cause if they dont know they could guess right.... and that would not be a good thing for the otehr side to know...
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Yeah, you're right, normally it is called OPSEC. The only reason I said COMSEC is because,
stebsplace stated that his buddy communicated (what mode?) "date of attack" to him.
Which I serious doubt his buddy knows the exact date.

 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
Click to expand...

In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
Click to expand...

Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
Click to expand...


My uncle was E-9 in the Navy with 26 years in service. He was based outside of Da Nang, towards Marble Mountain with the Marines. He lived in a bunker when he wasn't in the field supervising the Medical Corpsmen of I Corps. He used to fly into hot zones just to bring up the morale of his Corpsmen and the grunts. I ran into him and we got drunk after I landed in Long Binh and was traveling North to Dong Ha in search of my unit.

At the time he was the second highest ranking enlisted man in Viet Nam. There was an Army Sergeant Major who outranked him due to time-in-service by 2 years.

He served with Nimitz in the Pacific in WWII, spent 2 years in Korea and a year in VN. God rest his soul. What a man.
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Wow! He sounds like the guy in When we were Soldiers.

 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
That's probably not something that they should have told you.
Click to expand...

In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
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They need to learn to keep their thoughts to themselves.

Loose lips sink ships (1940s)

Many of us vets have thoughts that could be dangerous to us and others.



 
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
Originally posted by: Bignate603
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: Chaotic42 That's probably not something that they should have told you.
Click to expand...
In all actuality, they're most likely just telling what "they think".
Click to expand...
Yeah, that's true. My uncle got sent away to an unknown place, for an unknown amount of time, to do an unknown task. He just got E9 too. I can't help but wonder what he's doing, but the won't tell anyone.
Click to expand...
Probably back in division shuffling papers. E9 is pretty high up.
Click to expand...
My uncle was E-9 in the Navy with 26 years in service. He was based outside of Da Nang, towards Marble Mountain with the Marines. He lived in a bunker when he wasn't in the field supervising the Medical Corpsmen of I Corps. He used to fly into hot zones just to bring up the morale of his Corpsmen and the grunts. I ran into him and we got drunk after I landed in Long Binh and was traveling North to Dong Ha in search of my unit. At the time he was the second highest ranking enlisted man in Viet Nam. There was an Army Sergeant Major who outranked him due to time-in-service by 2 years. He served with Nimitz in the Pacific in WWII, spent 2 years in Korea and a year in VN. God rest his soul. What a man.
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What's E9 and the other designations mean?
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Ranks
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More appropriate link because he was E9 Navy. Probably MCPO

 
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