Troops being retrained to shoot Iraqi guerillas

[Mari333]

This is ridiculous..!! these kids werent even trained and now they are being retrained in Kuwait before they send them back in..this is a maximum clusterf*ck and circlejerk over there

In a short time, these airmen - and thousands of other U.S. troops who never dreamed they'd see combat - will drive into Iraq on the long military convoys that have become fat targets for anti-American guerrillas.

"We had to take a special course just to learn how to shoot," said Lippert, 21, of Tulsa, Okla. "We definitely shot more rounds than most Air Force people will ever shoot in their careers."

The airmen have been called in to help the U.S. Army fight Iraq's so-called trucker's war, which puts the troops who travel the roads on the front lines.

One or two U.S. soldiers are killed each day in Iraq, usually by roadside bombs or ambushes on convoys. Until the Army began special training programs at this sand-bermed camp near Kuwait's border with Iraq, few American troops had any expertise in such attacks.

In many cases, the ambushes left soldiers scared and convoys in disarray. Witnesses often reported troops firing wildly, shooting at and even killing Iraqi civilians.


http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040224/API/402240890

[aquart]

1. "Guerrillas"?

Who will be written, in their nation's history, as freedom fighters, heroes, patriots.