Blah blah blah. Death from above. Yada yada yada.The number of vehicles destroyed was 162, including 88 armed vehicles, 37 Humvees, 12 armored personnel carriers, two tanks, one Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, one construction vehicle and 21 miscellaneous vehicles, the Pentagon said.
The airstrikes also destroyed a total of 21 ISIL weapons systems, including seven anti-aircraft artillery weapons, seven Improvised Explosive Device emplacements, five mortar positions, one machine gun location and one weapons cache, the Pentagon said.
The list of 29 ISIL facilities destroyed by the airstrikes included 12 fighting positions, 10 checkpoints, one command post, one bunker and one large ground unit, the Pentagon said without further identifying the large ground unit.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Vehicle Count
When you don't have, in the awful expression, "boots on the ground" you can't count the corpses, but are forced to make do w/ a vehicle count:
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Glossary:
Fighting Position = Hole in the Ground
Checkpoint: 55Gal Drum in the Road
Command Post = Tent or Shack
Bunker = Hole in the Ground w/Sandbags
Large Ground Unit = Platoon of Infantry
So we're blowing up the stuff we bought from the military-industrial complex, using stuff we bought from the M.I.C.
Woohoo, eat it, Milo!
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Catch-22 Indeed Editor:
I'd just like to know what it costs to use a couple of SuperHornets to knock out a "machine gun location".
But it was a really important machine gun location.
And thanks mikey for the governmentspeak translation.
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