Stripes: 1,400 from Pacific Air Forces preparing to deploy

[lebkuchen]

About 1,400 airmen from Pacific Air Forces are preparing to deploy in September, mostly to support the global war on terrorism.

They’re part of the Air Force’s upcoming 120-day, September-January Aerospace Expeditionary Force rotation cycle.

Misawa Air Base in northern Japan and Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, will be hit hardest. Misawa is to send some 300 airmen and Elmendorf, 600.


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About 120 Pacific airmen will deploy during the next AEF to support Army missions, including convoy escort, detainee facility security and civil engineer jobs such as building water-purification plants, according to Kirkland.

Kadena is sending a small group of vehicle operators and security forces personnel to Camp Bullis and Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., for training designed to prepare for convoy escort duty, officials said.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30736

...and the air force thought it was safe.

[wake.up.america]

1. Any truth to the rumor Army recruiters signed up 15 and 16 year...

senior scouts for early enlistment at the Scout jamboree?

[lebkuchen]

2. Fertilized the new crop of recruits, haven't harvested yet

--the Bushies' generational commitment to war and all that. Besides, the bank of signed-up recruits in a holding pattern has been dipped into heavily. Gotta get that filled somehow.

[Bumblebee]

3. IRAN? They want to do that one mostly through air, as we know

[jimshoes]

4. Kind of like that German guy

did to Great Britain in the 40's. That turned out rather badly for him though.

[lebkuchen]

6. Could be, but I think the Bushies are running out of units to send

to relieve those who are due back, to include the Guard/Reserve units whose time limit deployed is running out, by law.

What you are seeing is desperate Bushy straw-grasping. Bush may be on "vacation," but his lackadaisical attitude is all for show. The NQRs of this administration have come home to roost.

[wake.up.america]

9. How can even the most dire-hard Bushite not be disgusted...

that Bush takes off to Crawford to fry what's left of his brain in the middle of a rash of American deaths in Iraq?

[lebkuchen]

10. in light of our 7-soldiers-killed-a-day monthly average?

no idea

[wake.up.america]

8. An air-brained idea.

Tell me that mkes sense. Do they plan to pulverize the suspected nuclear plants then leave?

Apparently, regime change is not in the cards.

Holy cow!!

[RobertSeattle]

5. Reporter didn't get the memo - it's no longer GWOT

It's GSAVE.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/234205_wared.html

[AmandaRuth]

7. Maybe they will be going on the bombing raids that are sure to take

place in the area where the 14 marines were killed yesterday.

Once again, I will say that I fear and pray for the average everyday Iraqis, that just want to live and raise their families, who will get caught up in this violence that is not of their making.

[lebkuchen]

11. The airmen will be trained for a mission they were never meant to do

convoys--which has probably been a big contributor to our casualty rate, the lack of training, as well as lack of proper equipment with which to perform the mission.

[saigon68]

12. =ANOTHER REASON NOT TO VOLUNTEER

Anyone joining voluntarily has a death wish and a screw loose.

[lebkuchen]

14. Did you hear that soldier who called Ray Taliafero today?

The first or second hour, archived. Either 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.

http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?PT=Archive&id=49920

[saigon68]

16. No I didn't

Will check it out.

[wakeme2008]

13. Yes about time the Air Farce pukes do some

"including convoy escort"

the Air Farce are the most Pro-Bush of the services.. Why, they have it easy UP TIL now...

[lebkuchen]

15. How about that blue to green program?!

Nobody in the Air Force volunteered, so Rummy volunteered them. He's getting the Peace Corp into the act, too.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/03/MNGCGE1TLO1.DTL