Denials that there are U.s. Troops deployed with NATO in the Ukraine just made a new mark. I have a dear friend serving with a Strike Team there, only days before the end of her deployment and her last messages to me were texted an hour ago from her bed in the Combat Medical Ward. She just wanted to tell me goodbye before deleting her tablet, about to be over-run, already 40 plus known KIA. Christmas day was Sargent Lilly Elliot's 30th birthday and she was in the last week of her deployment and really looking forward to seeing her 16 year old daughter, Emily. I posted a prayer request on my facebook page twice, only to have it deleted each time within a minute. I am not surprised by the depth of the lies told to us here in the States, but it did surprise me that social media is so heavily monitored to that degree. AI don't mess around with the trivialities of free speech. Goodbye Christmas Baby! Thanks for the zebras.
Seacowboys are you sure your account was not hacked? 30 year old with a 16 year old daughter? Really started young didn’t she. This story does not make total sense. Some of the terminology is strange as well.
It would not surprise me to find out that the number of trainers stationed in Ukraine are more than we been told but to find there are actual US troops involved in combat would be a shock. Now, that doesn't mean trainers won't be in harm's way, as missile technology means there isn't real rear areas any longer but... I would assume a 'Combat Medical Ward' would be in the rear so a missile strike would not surprise me but being over-run would especially if she is a wounded American as they would have gotten her out of there asap, probably to Poland. Nevertheless, if there was 40 KIA Americans it will come out as you cannot cover that stuff up for long, too many people involved. Hell, even a small portion of that number...it will come out. EDIT: I just had a thought, is she actually in the American military or is she with the International Legionnaire brigade?
Yeah, I've heard and read, females tend to be in medic (a lot!), drone operators and a few sniper roles. I could also see, especially since she's American, trainer for some sort of anti-aircraft/missile battery.
Any incorrect phrasing would belong to me, I am just a friend, not a soldier and my mother turned 30 year old with a sixteen year old son, me.
Don't know now. Everything is so blurred. Training them to use and supplying the targeting info is kind of very close to being there. What is the difference in combat when an officer tells an Ukraine troop to do it in training and a US troop to do it in combat? Like poor bas**** who shot down the "friendly" aircraft. He had a few seconds to decide what to do and the survival of the ship was at stake. I am afraid I would be kind of lean to the safety of the ship. There is no front line, the Ukrainians and the Russians are hitting buildings and killing civilians who are asleep in their beds at 3 AM and are hundreds of miles from the lines. If WW3 does happen, most of us will probably die before we know that there is even a war. My prayers are to all those killed and injured on both sides. Poor grunts in most cases had no choices and the big shots who start the wars aren't on the front lines. Nothing ever changes, if you are a private, war is he##, was if you were fighting 4 thousand years ago in Egypt and is today if you are what ever it is called in Syria.
