OT Don't mess with America!

Yeah, cuz those we sent over were stolen and sold.

ROFLMAO

You truly are a kook......

You might want to shut your trap for the rest of the day, until you can get a grip on reality.

Audit: Many U.S. weapons in Iraq missing Government report: About 14,000 weapons - 1 in 25 - unaccounted for The Associated Press Updated: 4:42 p.m. ET Oct 29, 2006 WASHINGTON - Nearly one of every 25 weapons the U.S. military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing and many others cannot be repaired because parts or technical manuals are lacking, a government audit said Sunday.

The Defense Department cannot account for 14,030 weapons - almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it began supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003, according to a report from the office of the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction.

The missing semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns and other weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided - less than 3 percent.

The Pentagon spent $133 million on the weapons with the aim of helping Iraq's ministries of defense and interior restore some badly needed security and public order to the country. Military officials insisted the weapons either had to be new or never issued to a previous soldier.

By December, the U.S. military had planned to put those weapons in the hands of 325,500 personnel.

Missing from its inventory books were 13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns, according to the audit requested by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The audit says there was no way of knowing whether the missing weapons were ever issued to Iraqi security forces, which also lack many needed spare parts, technical repair manuals and arms maintenance personnel.

Having spent two years in active status and seven years in the USAR, I think I may know a little more than you do about the military and how it operates.

Scott, do you have a clue why they call the military "the ARMED forces" ?

Would you care to elucidate who these military personnel are who do not have weapons with them in Iraq?

Perhaps you had no issue weapon in the Navy, but in the Army you get a gun along with your belt buckle, and you keep them both clean.

I know that if I had no issue weapon, I would refuse to go to Iraq.

Rest assured, a great proportion of deserters plus, in earlier days, draft dodgers just happen to be lefties. Co-incidence? I think not. Being leftie and being cowardly are a natural.

So true, in more ways than one.

Sure....

The Air Force and Navy personal working at the Baghdad Airport for one area.

Its his religion.

Not everyone in the service is a weapon carrying warrior.

and you know this how? as you're so fond of saying ......."cite"

Oh really? The second mission of anyone in the army (regardless of whether he's a cook, clerk, truck driver, or whatever is to "fight as infantry". Who would you consider to be unarmed in the service in Iraq, oh wise one? Have you ever been in one of the military services?

One of my son's is in the US Air Force and has been to Iraq.

First hand knowledge....

I was in the regular USAF for several years, then in the USAFR for 12 more. We were'nt issued guns except in Vietnam. We did have regular qualification however and I was rated an expert marksman with the M-16. Even today, 40 years later I can shoot a fly off your big red nose. Wanna prove me wrong?

What was his job at the Baghdad Airport? Certain tasks were contracted to a private company, not the military.

Well, sombody in your family has the balls to get in harms way. You must be a big friggin' embarrassment to your kid's.

No asshole, that would be second hand.

Not particularly....especially by someone whose nose is likely redder than Jack in the Box's.

I'm not surprised that AF personnel aren't issued sidearms or long guns except in a combat area. Their primary duty is to fly and maintain aircraft, not be ground pounders. But let me ask this....On an AFB, who performs the security functions, and are they armed?

I'm serious.

Air Police or AP's. Yes they are armed. On many bases they guard nuclear armed aircraft. This was not my job in the service if that's what you're alluding to.

The term "gound pounders", I'd rather for these brave members of the military to be called Warriors instead. If that's ok with you.

I was a ground pounder in Korea for 16 months and was damn proud of it.....still am, as a matter of fact. The Infantry was and is "The Queen of Battle".

But today, our brave and valiant troops are not so much warriors as sitting ducks in their Humvees, thanks to the idiocy of our commander in chief, who couldn't care less how many of our service personnel don't come home, or come home minus some body parts, as long as his legacy is intact. .

Ok, so you were a "ground pounder". Good.

The rest of your post is garbage.