{"id":30479,"date":"2012-06-22T07:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30479"},"modified":"2012-06-22T07:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:28:51","slug":"big-red-one-earmarked-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30479","title":{"rendered":"Big Red One earmarked for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you at Fort Riley, KS, who thought your deployment days were over once Iraq and Afghanistan ended have a another “think” coming. According to the Stars & Stripes<\/a>, you guys are scheduled to support the special forces operations currently going on in Africa;<\/p>\n

The soldiers in the brigades will be trained on the culture and languages of the region using a training model similar to those used for Iraq and Afghanistan, said Col. Andrew Dennis, the Army\u2019s chief of security cooperation policy and concepts.<\/p>\n

The Fort Riley brigade is the first to be aligned under the new strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does NOT mean 2-1 BCT is going to deploy, en masse, to Africa,\u201d Dennis said.<\/p>\n

Rather, smaller units from the brigade may be called at different times to do security force assistance and partnership-building missions, then return to the home base in the United States, with about 60 to 70 percent of the brigade deploying over the course of the regional alignment period, Dennis said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I guess there will be squad-sized ice cream trucks for you to spread good humor throughout the region. It will probably involve no-bid contracts with Baskin-Robbins and Little Caesar’s Pizza (-Pizza). You’ll be supported by contractors from Chuck E. Cheese and will be charged with changing the meaning of “the happiest place on Earth”.<\/p>\n

I noticed that “nation-building” has been altered to “partnership-building”. The goal hasn’t changed, but the name makes me feel warm and fuzzy. And putting a half-of-a-brigade on the ground insures that the hippies will be pleased about it – it’s not enough to have an impact on the strategy in the region, and still enough of a force to be a target for local insurgents. <\/p>\n

By the way, where are the ANSWER creeps protesting our planned “occupation” of Africa? They were protesting a war in Afghanistan before we had one pair of boots on the ground there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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