Marines in Irak:talmente tante perdite che usano i manichini!!!

[pietro]

Casualty-hit US marines use dummies to fool rebels
London Telegraph

April 27 2005

US marines who suffered the highest casualty rate of any unit in Iraq have revealed that they were so short of soldiers that they used cardboard dummies to fool insurgents into believing that they faced more men.

Company E of the First Marine Division dressed the cutouts in camouflage shirts and placed them in observation posts to trick Iraqi rebels into thinking that they were manned.

More than one third of the unit's 185 troops were killed or wounded during its six-month tour last year in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold west of Fallujah, during which it was targeted by 26 firefights, 90 mortar attacks and nearly 100 home-made bombs.

The deception was revealed yesterday when the marines broke the corp's code of silence to detail the shortages of equipment and manpower that they blame for many of their comrades' deaths.

The marines highlighted in particular the lack of armoured Humvees, the four-wheeled-drive vehicles favoured by the US military, which the company says meant they had little protection against roadside bombs.

When the unit arrived, none was fully armoured and the unit's commanders had to find scrap metal to line the sides and bottom of their vehicles.

It was also issued with maps that were several years out of date and showed urbanised areas still to be farmland.

The unit, nicknamed the Magnificent Bastards, said it had only a handful of electronic devices that block the detonation of roadside bombs, responsible for the deaths of 13 of 21 members of the company that were killed.

Instead they had to be spotted by eyesight. "Halfway through the deployment marines began getting good at spotting little things," Sgt Charles Sheldon told the New York Times.

"We had marines riding down the road at 60 miles an hour and they would spot a copper filament sticking out of a block of cement."

A force twice the size is now stationed in the city, which has been relatively peaceful since insurgents were ejected from neighbouring Fallujah in fierce fighting last November.

The lack of adequately armoured equipment has been a continuing complaint of US troops stationed in Iraq. The unusual decision by the unit to go public is only likely to add to government embarrassment at the shortage.

The Senate last week announced an extra £140 million of spending to buy more fully armoured Humvees. But critics say the procurement system is itself flawed as it primarily relies on one small Humvee provider in Ohio.

The Pentagon acknowledged that Company E lacked enough equipment and men but said the problems were experienced by many units when the insurgency suddenly intensified last year.

[Mauam]

E' il vecchio trucco degli indiani d'America ripreso dal generale Rommel durante la guerra in Africa, niente di nuovo sotto il sole.
Solo che questi trucchetti li fa la parte più in difficoltà ed è l'ennesima dimostrazione insieme alla carenza di equipaggiamento, della criticità della situazione yankee in Iraq.
Pensate cosa potrebbe succedere in caso di attacco all'Iran?

[pietro]

Diciamo che fatto dall'autoproclamatosi "esercito piu'potente del mondo" fa un po' ridere...

[HoChiMinh84]

In Origine Postato da pietro
Diciamo che fatto dall'autoproclamatosi "esercito piu'potente del mondo" fa un po' ridere...

fosse per loro avrebbero già spazzato tutto via con qualche bella bombetta all'idrogeno... meno male che ancora l'opinione pubblica vale un pochetto, almeno in questi casi.

[Mauam]

In Origine Postato da pietro
Diciamo che fatto dall'autoproclamatosi "esercito piu'potente del mondo" fa un po' ridere...

Infatti è un esercito potentissimo in caso di guerre termonucleari terribilmente scarso quando si deve combattere in convenzionale/guerriglia per carenza di equipaggiamento, di addestramento e di morale.

[Zefram_Cochrane]

il capitanamerDica non dice niente al riguardo?

[Totila]

In Origine Postato da thematrix
il capitanamerDica non dice niente al riguardo?

Capitan Amerika sta guardando i cartoni animati.

[Mr. Hyde]

By Luke Baker
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq formed its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years on Thursday, ending three months of political stalemate that has crippled efforts to tackle violence.




Rodete compagni. O magari, brillanti come sempre, mi venite a dire che la "coincidenza" con il compleanno di Saddam (1 su 365, immaginate! ) e' "troppo sospetta"...

[alfonso (POL)]

In Origine Postato da Mr. Hyde
By Luke Baker
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq formed its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years on Thursday, ending three months of political stalemate that has crippled efforts to tackle violence.




Rodete compagni. O magari, brillanti come sempre, mi venite a dire che la "coincidenza" con il compleanno di Saddam (1 su 365, immaginate! ) e' "troppo sospetta"...

rassegnati è questione solo di tempo e smammerete a calci in culo...

[Mauam]

In Origine Postato da onestuomo
MA GUARDA CHE INGRATI QUESTI IRAKENI.
LORO GLI PORTANO LA DEMOCRAZIA E QUELLI LI FANNO SALTARE IN ARIA

MA SONO SOLO FUOCHI D'ARTIFICIO UN PO' PARTICOLARI PER FESTEGGIARE L'EVENTO