Pappy1600 Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikedaddyH Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 One of my high school friends was there... He got hit by Shrapnel. Top Boxer in the US at the time fought for the Marine Corp .That hit home pretty hard ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtallen83 Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Then two days later Operation Urgent Fury began costing another 19 American servicemen their lives. I was in RIP at the time, training took on a whole new level of seriousness after these two events.Reagan handled it right though when it came to payback, nice and quiet like they had 100's of terrorists assassinated and increased the amount of training and weapons for our friends around the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepp Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 I need a history lesson, in my defense I was 2...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtallen83 Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Beirut_car_bombinghttp://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8696http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKcaseyW.htmThese are just a few versions of history, not the complete story though. I was helping train Contras and Mujahideens in the summer of 1984. Taught the rug-heads how to fire stinger missiles and dropped them at the airport where cases looking just like the ones that held the training missiles were loaded onto the same plane they got on. According to the official record these weapons were not provided till 1986......I must have been hallucinating.....When I watched the Iran/Contra hearings held a few years later my long held suspicion was confirmed, our government is out of control and both "parties" are involved. None of them came close to asking the right questions all the while the media played along failing to investigate or report anything that did not follow the testimony given in the hearings. This whole thing was a massive operation with hundreds of people involved to some degree or another but the WHOLE truth may never be known. Schwarzkopf was at the training often but was never asked a single related question. http://www.hirhome.com/iraniraq/gulfwar.htmand here we are today with the Iran nuke deal 'fata compli'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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