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Postman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:50 AM Original message |
Give me a scenario where the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division will be deployed... |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Suspended/Canceled Elections with riots in the streets? |
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Postman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There are 4000 soldiers in the unit. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I was wondering the number. How many people could 4000 control? |
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lurky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Or just to have a visible display of force. |
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Postman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The power of TV. |
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lurky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Agreed. Appearances have to be a big part of it. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. "Heavily armed guys in Humvees patrolling the streets of NY, LA..." |
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lurky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 02:14 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. Touche... |
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soulcore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. perhaps... |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I'd bet on stolen. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
4. Remember remember the fifth of November... |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
7. Well, because that's their orders as of Oct. 1. n/t |
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Postman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 10:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Okay. How about a scenario? |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. You're asking under what scenario would they be deployed. Their |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
10. It's easy to get around 4000 soldiers. |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
12. In a country of 300 million, 4,000 soldiers won't do a whole lot |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. There's plenty more where they came from. n/t |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Maybe, but let's see evidence of it before we buy into it. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Don't you dare pull out that good Germans crap! |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Whoa! I did dare. I didn't say this was martial law. I was simply |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. And I didn't say that it couldn't happen! READ MY POST! |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 01:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. You took this way too hard. Ok, I take it back. Now, as far as I am |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Most will not take up arms against their fellow American |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. That's a fallacy. A dangerous one at that. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. That only works when your country is geographically small like Bosnia. |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I never said there would be a civil war. |
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bushmeister0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. I agree, it didn't stop the US Army from routing the Bonus Marchers |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. I was stationed at Fort Stewert in 1970 and we were put on alert |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yep, that was a draftee unit and |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
16. um . . . isn't this out-and-out illegal? . . . |
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lurky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-25-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Let's see... torture, warrantless wiretapping, |
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