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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:05 PM Original message |
U.S. marines' move to Guam might be delayed |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Woah! |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You have to build a small town |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I lived on the base at Twentynine Palms |
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Johnyawl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. docks, docking facilities, airfields... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:20 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I was there in 2000 |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. They have to build the infrastructure for the Marines on Guam. I visited |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Why Guam? |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Proximity to China |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. So how long would it take to move 8000 marines from Guam to China? |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:04 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I don't think |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. The Marines' job is to take and hold advanced naval bases |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. By May 1942 the Japanese had pretty much overrun all the little islands |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:48 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. The point is the Marine Corps would not invade China |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:54 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. But China doesn't occupy any islands except immediately adjacent to the mainland |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-10-08 12:59 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Neither did Japan before the war |
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virgdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. We were stationed there from 91-93 |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I was born there in '47 |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-08 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. How about bring the troops home? Didn't Japan surrender |
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