On AAR this morning: Admiral to deploy sailors to Iraq to train Iraqiis

[BigBearJohn]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29920

NAPLES, Italy — U.S. Navy leaders are ready to pluck more sailors off ships and deploy them to Iraq to bolster U.S. efforts in training Iraqi forces, the chief of the U.S. Navy Reserve said Wednesday.

“Are we going to take some sailors from the sea and put them ashore to answer this call?” Vice Adm. John Cotton said during an interview in Naples on Wednesday. “The answer to that is a resounding yes.”

Last week, Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, urged Pentagon leaders to add Navy and Air Force members to ground elements in Iraq to speed up training of Iraqi security forces.

“Our NATO partners have promised to lend their efforts to training Iraqi security forces,” Skelton said. “They must get more engaged and soon. We have embedded trainers in transition teams with the Iraqis. We must commit even more trainers to this effort.

[babylonsister]

1. So scratch the Navy off the list of safe havens for

anyone wanting to join the military. Gosh, every day it feels like info overload to me! :crazy:

[BigBearJohn]

2. I know! It's disgusting.

[Don Claybrook]

3. He talks like his idiot boss Rumsfeld

He asks and answers his own questions. Lovely.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Down goes the enlistment roles for the Navy!

We need to get out now! Not one more killed on either side! This needs to end here and now! No draft! No more stop loss back door draft! End it here and now! Enough is enough! A resounding NO! How can we ask any American soldier to die for a lie? And yet we haven't asked, we have forced them too!