Memorial Day Salute

[Gary26]

This is my squadmate CJ, also his game ID, if you see him or any others give him a big  . POST'EM IF YO GOT'EM.
Lets see your pics of squadmates, friends and family if you have them.
CJ- Blackhawk Pilot 325th Medivac.


My Grandpa(R.I.P)


"I should like to pay the highest tribute for the most gallant fight put up against impossible odds"
Admiral Tovey - (After the sinking of the Bismarck) - 27th May 1941

"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-squeak Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!"
General George S. Patton - (addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord) - 5th June 1944

[FiLtH]

  Was just talking to a fellow post member today at a funeral who happens to be a blawkhawk medivac pilot as well.

 <S>

[Bosco123]

<S> all who served.

[Shuffler]

"A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in .... And how many want out." 
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you: 
1.  Jesus Christ
2.  The American G.I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom ..

[Shuffler]

When in England at a fairly large conference,  Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush.

He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
return  is enough to bury those that did not return."


Then there was a conference in France where a number of  international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying "Have you  heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do,  bomb them?"

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on  board that can treat several hundred people; they are  nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities;  they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three  meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea  water each day, and they carry half a dozen
helicopters for use in  transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?"

[LTARecon]

  To my fellow Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Seamen. On memorial Day, we honor ourselves and those who have served before us, making the ultimate sacrifice. I salute my Father, who is a Vietnam War Veteran and two friends who parrished last year.  SPC Tenzin Samten and SSG Juantrea Bradley.



SPC. Chase, Lloyd S. (LTARecon)
U.S. Army Signal Corps
OEF1 & OIF 1
Status: Disabled Veteran

 

[jdbecks]

When in England at a fairly large conference,  Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush.

He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
return  is enough to bury those that did not return."


Then there was a conference in France where a number of  international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying "Have you  heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do,  bomb them?"

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on  board that can treat several hundred people; they are  nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities;  they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three  meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea  water each day, and they carry half a dozen
helicopters for use in  transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?"

the Iraq war was quite simply a war about oil, nothing less..nothing more, there was no weapons of mass destruction, the country was more stable and more secure when Saddam Hussein was in charge, there are alot of countries thats leaders/dictators are more suppressive to its people than Iraq was, and America does not want to know or help them..Burma for instance not to mention alot of places in Africa, and If America was so scared because he had WMD...why are they not invading North Korea?   But regardless of the global politics, its people like us who are on the front line fighting for our friends and the man to our side

anyway heres me, Served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[USRanger]

  to our fallen brothers

[Ratpack1]

 

[TOMCAT21]

 

[newz]

 

[rvflyer]

the Iraq war was quite simply a war about oil, nothing less..nothing more, there was no weapons of mass destruction, the country was more stable and more secure when Saddam Hussein was in charge, there are alot of countries thats leaders/dictators are more suppressive to its people than Iraq was, and America does not want to know or help them..Burma for instance not to mention alot of places in Africa, and If America was so scared because he had WMD...why are they not invading North Korea?   But regardless of the global politics, its people like us who are on the front line fighting for our friends and the man to our side

anyway heres me, Served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I would like to comment on your statements but won't as this is a thread to <S> all who have served (Vietnam 67-68)

[LLogann]

See Rule #4

[jdbecks]

I would like to comment on your statements but won't as this is a thread to <S> all who have served (Vietnam 67-68)

just a very very quick google.

wiki pedia

According to the then President of the United States George W. Bush and then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair, the reasons for the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people."[16] According to Blair, the trigger was Iraq's failure to take a "final opportunity" to disarm itself of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that U.S. and coalition officials called an immediate and intolerable threat to world peace.[17] Although some remnants of pre-1991 production were found after the end of the war, U.S. government spokespeople confirmed that these were not the weapons for which the U.S. went to war.[18][19] In 2005, the Central Intelligence Agency released a report saying that no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq.[20]

[edit] Yellowcake from Niger
The Bush Administration asserted that the Hussein government had sought to purchase yellowcake uranium from Niger.[77] On March 7, 2003, the U.S. submitted intelligence documents as evidence to the IAEA. These documents were dismissed by the IAEA as forgeries, with the concurrence in that judgment of outside experts. At the time, a U.S. official claimed that the evidence was submitted to the IAEA without knowledge of its provenance, and characterized any mistakes as "more likely due to incompetence not malice".


[edit] Unmanned Iraqi drones
In October, 2002, a few days before the U.S. Senate vote on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution, about 75 senators were told in closed session that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drones that could be launched from ships off the Atlantic coast to attack U.S. eastern seaboard cities. Colin Powell suggested in his presentation to the United Nations that UAVs were transported out of Iraq and could be launched against the U.S. In fact, Iraq had no offensive UAV fleet or any capability of putting UAVs on ships.[78] Iraq's UAV fleet consisted of less than a handful of outdated Czech training drones.[79] At the time, there was a vigorous dispute within the intelligence community as to whether the CIA's conclusions about Iraq's UAV fleet were accurate. The U.S. Air Force agency denied outright that Iraq possessed any offensive UAV capability.[80]


[edit] Human rights
As evidence supporting U.S. and British claims about Iraqi WMDs and links to terrorism weakened, some claim supporters of the invasion have increasingly shifted their justification to the human rights violations of the Hussein government.[81] Leading human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have argued, however, that they believe human rights concerns were never a central justification for the invasion, nor do they believe that military intervention was justifiable on humanitarian grounds, most significantly because "the killing in Iraq at the time was not of the exceptional nature that would justify such intervention."[82] Many supporters of the war, however, claim from the start human rights concerns were among the reasons given for the invasion, and that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was emphasized at the United Nations, since this dealt with Iraq flouting UN resolutions. They further claim human rights groups that oppose the war have no objective standard regarding when to invade a country



"President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains
a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets
from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to
the US 'military intervention' is necessary."[1]

after Iraq the 2nd largest supplier of Oil said they would trade oil in Euros

and a good read

http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/iraq.asp


Do not get me wrong, I served in the Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once felt I was fighting for my country, I was fighting for my friend and my comrade in arms, I have the uttermost respect for any man from any country who serves in the military, what ever the true reasons for the invasion where is irrelvent as it only effects average joe. I  every man and respect every solider that has done his duty, I just dont feel the war in Iraq was justified.

you can comment on my opinon, but there is far more evidence that supports my opinon, than the offical bush verison.

[PFactorDave]

Amen LLogann.