Remember this picture from yesterday? It on Yahoo’s photostream with the (still active) caption: US soldiers secure the area at a newly installed check-point at the Babadag training facility in Tulcea, Iraq. A string of suicide attacks against Iraqi s…

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=282596

That’s it right there. I remember them well.

I beg to differ. When you get hit by that rifle, there is an audible beep and you have to lay down because you’re dead. Even if you are a terrorist. It’s one of the rules of warfare.

Tantor on July 15, 2008 at 7:18 PM

ROFLMAO!!!!

Twice.

wise_man on July 15, 2008 at 12:32 PM

Love thy neighbore….. ;)

“AFP has discovered that the reason for the ongoing quagmire and imminent defeat of US forces in Iraq is that they have been inadvertently issued non-lethal MILES gear instead of the live ammunition generally used in combat. Former Ranger SEAL Delta operator Commodore Jesse MacBeth says, “This is exactly the incompetence of Bush’s administration of this war that caused the Iraqis to drive us of Baghdad after I parachuted in with the 82nd Airborne. Once we cleared the parachutes off our M-1 tanks, we discovered they were loaded with nerf shells left over from desert training at Fort Irwin. We had to fight our way out through the fedayeen with pocket knives.”

Compounding the error, the troops for the surge were bedeviled by a typographical error in their orders which sent them to Bavaria instead of Baghdad. “Where are the insurgents I was sent to fight,” grumbled Commodore MacBeth. “All I see is trees and cows.”

Training with MILES sucks.

I was at Leonard Wood for a large-scale training exercise in 1964, Operation Goldfire. I spent 3 or 4 days in the boonies with my HAWK unit then we drove back to Ft. Bliss (Armpit of The Universe)

Cut them some slack people. You can’t expect them to create accurate news under such tight time constraints and have them stay faithful to the Dem talking points without a few minor, insignificant, hardly worth correcting mistakes.

/sarc off

Give the media some credit. At least they’re American soldiers.

Cicero43 on July 15, 2008 at 11:55 AM

Yes it’s a two year old link, but I still feel compelled to say that you didn’t even need to examine the ‘photoshopping’ – simply the fact that the guy’s wearing a poppy should be a big enough giveaway?

US soldiers secure the area at a newly installed check-point at Babadag training facility in the county of Tulcea, during a training exercise July 14. At least 22 people were killed on Tuesday when two suicide bombers blew themselves in a crowd of recruits at an Iraqi army base in an area known to be a stronghold of Al-Qaeda fighters.

wise_man on July 15, 2008 at 11:56 AM

You are correct sir. Here is the AP story on the 28 killed.

BAGHDAD — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of army recruits in the city of Baqouba on Tuesday, killing at least 28 people, Iraqi police said.

At least 47 recruits were injured in the blast at the Saad military camp in Baqouba, a former stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq located about 35 miles from Baghdad, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The U.S. military confirmed the attack, saying it occurred around 8 a.m.

On June 22, a female suicide bomber concealing explosives beneath her black robe struck outside a government complex in Baqouba, capital of Diyala province. At least 15 people were killed and more than 40 were wounded.

© 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

No, but it’s about 40 miles from where I went to high school, and my mom still lives nearby. As I recall, they’re just doing combat engineering now-a-days.