DUmmy greenbriar Discusses Deployment To Iraq

[GOBUCKS]

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-31-09 09:14 PM
Original message
My Brother -in-Law deploys for Iraq in 17 days
he has been home from Washington state for about 2 weeks and has been making the rounds of friends and family.

He already has things packed and his company has already shipped a load of supplies ect.

This is a really scary time for he and us
He does communications so he doesn't think he will be front lines but he is going

 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6434266
I know it's DUmmy greenbriar, whose credentials as a moron cannot be challenged, but it's still
surprising to see someone who claims to be a teacher who uses such atrocious grammar, and who
obviously has no idea that "etc." is an abbreviation for "et cetera".

Statistical  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-31-09 09:37 PM
2. A Sgt with a radio.
Commo is today usually refer to battalion level of higher.

Hell every HMMWV has a radio, by the time we left every crew has need tiny man portable radios that could securely link with the truck radio.
Got a 3 man crew (driver, gunner, commander) on a HMMWV everyone knows how to use the radio and nobody is commo.

To the OP If he is communications likely he is in the "safer" parts of Iraq assigned to a FOB and should only go outside the wire when convoying to another FOB or going home on leave.

It's also surprising and a little disturbing to think we have active duty military logging into the DUmp.

michreject  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-31-09 09:57 PM
6. I imagine it's all changed
I got out in 72. My MOS is obsolete.

 

Statistical  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-31-09 10:10 PM
8. Oh yeah. commo is everywhere now and it soldier level but commo isn't obsolete.
Blue force tracker (realtime sat linked navigation system w/ 2 way digital commo, and notification of friendly and enemy units)
Broad Spectrum Scan & Jam Electronic Countermeasure Suite (montitors electronic spectrum, locates threat signals and dumps power into it to disrupt signal)
Dual Net Frequency Hopping RadioSet (SINCGARS) with time synced encryption & decryption
Portable manpack the size of a "walkie talker" which slaves to the SINCGARS radio allowing coms outside the vehicle
Vehicle Intercom System (made by bose  ) with external mikes with sound amplification and frequency cut off (isolates speaking frequencies, and damps gunfire)

Of course the more they put in the soldier there is even more for commo at a higher level.
Commo keeps the whole network running.

When we would go on long range convoys we would often pass through a dozen or so "landowners" and each area had a "sheriff" unit. Landowner is the unit responsible for local security and they often know "whats up". Sheriff was a unit on standby to bring firepower when something goes really bad.

Battalion (or brigade if you are going really far) can assist you with changing your landowner & sheriff freqs so you constantly have the nearest information and security numbers.
Kinda like 411 and 911 always goes to the right city based on where you are. Commo would track us on the Blue Force and lets us and both landowners and both sherriffs know when we passed through "borders".
They need to keep all that straight because often there is a lot to be watching on the route. Plus they when route go "black" (no traffic due to threat) they can find you an alternate route.

So commo is useful but they are too valuable to put on the line anymore. Our company had 150 guys and a 3 man commo team to keep all that junk running. Way to valuable to risk on patrol.

He may be active duty military, but at least he's so dumb he thinks a long exposition on technical
details of communications will impress someone. Not likely a guy who will advance enough to cause
much damage.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-31-09 09:46 PM
4. I believe that is what he is...signal corps
he is big in computers

Statistical  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-31-09 09:59 PM
7. I know you are afraid and it is normal but..
From someone who was there Iraq isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. I ran 208 combat missions outside the wire in my year in the sand. Most of that was doing route reconnaissance which we jokingly called IED magnets.

Even still Iraq wasn't that bad. I mean don't get me wrong I don't want to ever go back.
For what is worth most soldiers come home from Iraq in one piece.

greenbriar  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-31-09 10:25 PM
9. we are grateful he is not going to Afganistan
but his orders could change at any time

She also cannot spell "Afghanistan".
And she is so dumb she unintentionally expresses gratitude for the effectiveness of W's surge.

[Ogre]

Dear DUmmie, he is going to a combat zone, there isn't a "safe" location, or "safe" duty, so don't delude yourself.  Some places just see less action than others.  Do him and yourself a favor and STFU about things you don't know jack s**t about.  Send him a care package as often as possible, it doesn't have to be something big, you wouldn't believe what a simple card, short letter, and a picture of home can do for someone, and what ever you do don't discuss politics with him.  I doubt she'll listen, she is a DUmpmonkey.

[USA4ME]

It's also surprising and a little disturbing to think we have active duty military logging into the DUmp.

Unsettling to say the least.  Someone who raises their hand to vow and protect American and then becomes a liberal is a complete contradiction.  It's like someone claiming to be a Christian but they're decided to earn an income by breaking in and robbing houses.

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[Chris_]

greenbriar reminds me of my ex DIL. She was a pain pill addict too and lost her teaching job because of it.

I can't believe her BIL actually speaks to her.  All this we, us. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hey, Greenliar, I thought Afghanistan was the 'Just war' that Obamussolini favored, why aren't you supporting your Il Douche?

Statistician sounds like he was an ARNG E4 doing convoy escort duty, and has now returned to his undergrad work to finish the second half of his BS in Fluff Studies.

[BlueStateSaint]

Hey, Greenliar, I thought Afghanistan was the 'Just war' that Obamussolini favored, why aren't you supporting your Il Douche?

Statistician sounds like he was an ARNG E4 doing convoy escort duty, and has now returned to his undergrad work to finish the second half of his BS in Fluff Studies.

At UC-Berkeley . . .