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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:
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.
Blah blah blah. Death from above. Yada yada yada.
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4 comments:

  1. mikey10 September, 2014 14:14

    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

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  2. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©10 September, 2014 14:20

    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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  3. M. Bouffant10 September, 2014 14:53

    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".

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  4. Weird Dave10 September, 2014 17:23

    But it was a really important machine gun location.

    And thanks mikey for the governmentspeak translation.

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