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There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the Mideast (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] microfiche@hexbear.net 66 points 2 weeks ago

I know a guy in the Marine Reserves who got one of those letters being posted about on Reddit. He is being called back up and will be in Iran in the next couple weeks.

I also know someone in Army Reserves who I've mentioned in another post, who is being hurried thru range drills to get sent over there as a logistics driver.

President is in a hurry to commission some more gold star moms.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 47 points 2 weeks ago

this is gonna be such a debacle

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago

sit-back-and-enjoy

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

feel bad for the Iranians who have to actually clean up the mess. I'm thousands of miles from any relevant production, not sure how much it would help to visit the local highschool and get in a fistfight with the army recruiter.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

The kids are alright. They might do it themselves.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

true. did we really not get an emote of the kid in the brown hoodie?

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

It's not too late to drop a cinderblock on your foot. Or just... refuse, and go to jail. None of these people have to do this.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

Let's evaluate it. Felony-tier event on your record for the rest of your life, forever cooked in the mil-ind career path and a pariah in the Bloodfeast American Civic Religion, or eighteen separate pieces of charred meat surrounding a small crater with your boots in the center, a short-lived monument to your obedience to a pedophileremoved who thinks only suckers get killed.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well when you put it like that it does sound like only suckers get killed. Suckers and countless innocents that is.

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

What if we all join and -

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago
  • debate them in the free marketplace of ideas?
[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure I can handle sleeping with 50000 military spouses by myself. I'm going to need some help

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago

Create an app for military spouses to cheat with other military spouses

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

that's just swinging and allegedly it was invented by navy pilots

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wilt Chamberlain couldn’t even do that by himself. Maybe you can find 500 people to do 100 each?

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would never sleep with a military spouse (because anyone who willingly sleeps with the soldiers of the 4th Reich doesn't deserve my head game)

[-] Runcible@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At almost a third of the size of the continental United States, Iran has around 93 million people. Taking, let alone holding, a country of its size and complexity and weaponry with 50,000 troops is not doable, military experts say.

Thanks, NYT!

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 52 points 2 weeks ago

More than a little disappointed there's no emojis of caskets with flags draped over them.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago

[-] BGDelirium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

:futurama-scruffy

Second

And there should be an emoji of our favorite animated one-liner janitor as well

[-] oliveoil@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

There is one of US flag covered coffins in a bunch of vans.

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What I really want to know is, since the USA can't just drive over flat ground like all those tanks in Iraq, how the hell are these troops going to GET to Iran?

  1. D-Day amphibious landing vs. horrific killer drones?

  2. Parachute beyond the mountains where they have no chance of ever getting out?

  3. Just try to bring Navy ships into a port and get Pearl Harbored by ballistic missiles?

Either way, this is one of the only things Trump could ever possibly do that would lead to a mutiny. I don't mean from his generals or Chiefs of Staff (those have been purged of the disloyal) but from mass fragging events and low-level officers. We might actually see a Battleship Potemkin scenario here, not to mention a Battle of Tsushima scenario.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of people seem to think it's solely going to be an operation to excavate the Fordow nuclear site and extract the enriched uranium there.

Don't ask how they're going to secure an excavation project that's only 50miles outside Tehran for the several weeks it will take to excavate it.

[-] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

large-scale social engineering: they're gonna put a hi-vis vest on every soldier, and they will all carry a ladder

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

i think theyll go for 25,000 ladder guys and 25,000 clipboard guys so it looks less obvious.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

This sounds like a monty python bit

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sounds very ill advised. I would guess it's islands to control the strait of Hormuz. Qeshm Island primarily and Bandar Abbas and the entire region of Hormozgan province eventually. That would mean massive softening strikes and then special forces/troopers/marines to secure a beachhead at night. Amphibious landings.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

flat ground doesn't even matter nowadays because of drones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAg4qBaFvjI

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

They can invade through Turkey, no? I mean obviously also a really bad idea but probably less bad than an amphibious landing.

[-] Commie_Chameleon@hexbear.net 44 points 2 weeks ago

What are banks going to do with that many prematurely repossessed Mustangs

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

they'll make up for the losses on auto payments by shorting ford

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

probably auction them to israelis lul

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'll take a cheap Mustang pete

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

Praying for their deployment to be over in a blink of the eye. timmy-pray

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

50,000 people used to live here

now... it's a ghost town

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

50,000 future corpses

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

soldiers helmet with a picture of Epstein. Bottom text: remember who we are fighting for

[-] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago

There Are Now Over 50,000 ~~American Troops~~ dead bodies in the Mideast

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I increasingly wonder if the US isn't going to do any kind of specific dedicate all troops to one mission to seize one thing type operation and instead plans to create several groups of raiding parties more or less they drop into Iran to target missile cities or something else of value, attack under heavy air support and suppression for most of a day, then pull out and leave, return and do the same thing in a day or so at another location. Basically try and counter their mosaic defense with unpredictable forceful strikes that leave the disconnected different regions reeling and unable to know where to rush troops and by the time they do the Americans are leaving already.

Otherwise it really has to be either trying to take some part of the coast or islands, trying to seize the nuclear material, or some wild scheme about trying to take some part of Iran on its border that has ethnic sub-groups and trying to start an insurgency that they help along in the initial stages before pulling back and hoping their local pawns do the heavy lifting and dying to pressure Tehran.

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That’s not really what the US military ever does though, right? Normally they lumber in with bombers and poorly armoured jeeps and build a big base with a Burger King in the middle of it, then continue to bombard the surrounding countryside for about a decade or two before leaving in disgrace.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I expect that an attempt at taking the ports in the south is the most likely scenario. It's worth remembering that 50k is a total number including support, not just assault troops that will do direct fighting. They might try doing raids deeper into Iran, but that's very risky given that a lot of US jets have been shot down over Iran already. A troop transport will be a juicy target. So, I do think it's more likely they would try to attack ports or islands instead of trying to do operations deep in Iran. We'll see what they do shortly one way or the other I suspect.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's like delta force shit if delta force wasn't mostly just murdering families in their sleep.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

sicko-crab Die for pissreal.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

I hope every single one of them explodes into a thousand pieces of flesh.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah, it's quagmire time!

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

peter-running Quagmire! 50,000 strapping young men are about to get fucked hard! Come quick!

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