Military - December 2006

Iranian officers take command of Palestinian Gaza missile front. (DEBKAfile Exclusive)

The Israeli cabinet decision Wednesday ordered the IDF to stick to attacking missile crews and refrain from breaching the month-long “ceasefire,” in the course of which the Palestinians fired 70 missiles from Gaza at Israeli civilian locations. An Israeli appeal went out to the (non-functioning) Palestinian Authority to halt the six-year old barrage.

Shouldn't Israel get serious and remove the threat to its citizens?

Sderot and its neighbors will continue to live under daily missile harassment. Until the latest attack, the army was constrained on the prime minister’s order – and against its will - - to hold its fire against the daily assaults, although they could clearly see the assailants in Gaza. Surgeons operated through Tuesday night to save the life of Adir Basad, 14, who was critically injured in all parts of his body by a falling missile outside his home in Sderot, the 8th fired in one day.

2006-12-27 16:57:40 · 4 answers · asked by Ivri_Anokhi 6

im 16 years old...i wanna join the armed forces after high school, but im not sure if im gonna graduate...i just wanted to know if you need a high school diploma to join the army...thanks

2006-12-27 16:49:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know the answer to this question, i just wanna know how many people are gonna say what i think they're gonna say.

2006-12-27 16:48:10 · 6 answers · asked by huerito323 2

Wow, I'm sorry to say, but as much as I love this country, it will probably take an attack that would dwarf 9-11 to make the left realize that there are millions of jihadists out there who will stop at nothing, including taking their own lives, to murder us ALL ! I will never forget watching innocent men and women diving out of 100 story windows on 9-11, to keep from being incinerated. I asked a question a few minutes ago entitled "Geneva Convention Please!"
And I am under attack by left wingers. Israel's guilty, the US is guilty, the entire western world is guilty. How dare we live as free people, not bound to religious laws and edict. How dare we retaliate against tyrants and terrorists who are bent on our destruction ? Israel has done nothing more than defend it's citizens against animals who blow themselves up in market places. We have removed from power , a tyrant who has killed 1/2 a million Kurds, who are extremely grateful for our presence in Iraq. Jihadists waged this war !!!

2006-12-27 16:38:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am from a large military family and know how hard it is for soldiers to be away home. Thanks for anyone who can help me with this.

2006-12-27 16:32:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

from the date you ship out to bootcamp, not the day U. S.ign the M.utherfuking C.ontract lol

2006-12-27 16:27:17 · 5 answers · asked by 0300 1

These creeps like Al Qaida, Hizbollah , Hamas, and so on , know no dignity and have no integrity what-so-ever !! They lob rockets full of nuts bolts and ball bearings into civilian areas in Israel, and when Israel retaliates, they hide in populated areas near schools apartment complexes, and shopping centers. They behead an innocent kid like Nick Berg on film and post the gruesome video on the internet to instill fear into the minds and hearts of anyone who opposes their barbaric "religious" philosophy. They drag the corpses of American civilians through the streets of Fallujah, and hang their burning bodies from an overpass. They set off car bombs in crowded places of commerce in Baghdad, and when the emergency medical personnel arrive to aid the wounded, set off a 2nd bomb to kill and maim the police and paramedics who have responded to their heinous attack. These are the same animals who deny a rape victim justice because she cannot produce 5 male witnesses to the crime.

2006-12-27 16:19:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Army-Green Beret
Marine-Force Recon
Navy-Navy Seal
What is the minimum year contract,3 or 4? maybe 2? When you become a special force can you drop out and still have your title? wat kind of drop out is there? I'm trying to get into a special force then get out and work for private military.

2006-12-27 16:08:24 · 8 answers · asked by Knowledge Is Power! 1

What does "G.I." stand for? What about "U.S.O."? and "R.O.T.C." and "A.R.M.Y" doesn't "N.A.V.Y." stand for something too?? If you know anymore.... let me know that they are and what they stand for.....

2006-12-27 16:07:52 · 15 answers · asked by ♥femme fatale♥ 2

I have a friend who joined the US marine corps, and he is away in south carolina right now for bootcamp and training...he sent me a letter, and i am in the process of writing him back, but also, i would like to send him a cross and put it in the envelope of the letter....BUT i dont know if that is allowed? can i send him things in the mail? will the cross eventually get to him or would it be taken away while he is in training? i have no idea, but obviously, if i cant send it, i wont...i just thought it would be nice and that he would appreciate the thought....please, someone, if you were ever a US marine, or were in this situation..help.

thanks!

2006-12-27 15:58:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-27 15:45:43 · 4 answers · asked by babygyrl_182002 1

2006-12-27 15:43:47 · 5 answers · asked by babygyrl_182002 1

is the president consider military or civil servent

2006-12-27 15:38:21 · 8 answers · asked by kei p 1

My husband is serving in Iraq and has been there since March 06. He is coming home in Feb. 07. What kind of things can I do to make it special? Is making signs, tee shirts for me and our kids, and decorating the car too much? I don't want to over do it but I want something to let him know we are so happy he is finally home. And that we are proud of him. Any ideas of small gifts I can give out to the other soldiers in his unit? Or would that be overboard too? I sometimes send extra stuff for the other guys when I send my husband packages. I just really want them to know how much we appreciate them and are glad they are home.

2006-12-27 15:24:09 · 12 answers · asked by honeybear 5

Wow, the internet is full of morons who seem to believe that the WTC was brought down by specially placed demolition explosives. And that the pentagon wasn't really hit by any airliner at all. What kind of drugs are these people on ?

2006-12-27 15:24:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am playing on level 5 as the terrorist forces. I've wiped out every americal soldier and i need to capture the bunkers how do i do this.|? Thanks in advance!

2006-12-27 15:20:31 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-27 15:14:00 · 20 answers · asked by Vicki A 2

which is the most powerful nation in africa ,and in what postion is ethiopia now in military

2006-12-27 14:54:28 · 6 answers · asked by Abey T 1

Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush had launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration. In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney — Ford's White House chief of staff — and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief. “Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do." In a conversation that veered between the current realities of a war in the Middle East and the old complexities of the war in Vietnam whose bitter end he presided over as president, Ford took issue with the notion of the United States entering a conflict in service of the idea of spreading democracy. "Well, I can understand the theory of wanting to free people," Ford said, referring to Bush's assertion that the United States has a "duty to free people." But the former president said he was skeptical "whether you can detach that from the obligation number one, of what's in our national interest." He added: "And I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security."
To be published after his death
The Ford interview — and a subsequent lengthy conversation in 2005 — took place for a future book project, though he said his comments could be published at any time after his death. In the sessions, Ford fondly recalled his close working relationship with key Bush advisers Cheney and Rumsfeld while expressing concern about the policies they pursued in more recent years. "He was an excellent chief of staff. First class," Ford said. "But I think Cheney has become much more pugnacious" as vice president. He said he agreed with former secretary of state Colin L. Powell's assertion that Cheney developed a "fever" about the threat of terrorism and Iraq. "I think that's probably true." Describing his own preferred policy toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Ford said he would not have gone to war, based on the publicly available information at the time, and would have worked harder to find an alternative. "I don't think, if I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly," he said, "I don't think I would have ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to find another answer." Ford had faced his own military crisis — not a war he started like Bush, but one he had to figure out how to end. In many ways those decisions framed his short presidency — in the difficult calculations about how to pull out of Vietnam and the challenging players who shaped policy on the war. Most challenging of all, as Ford recalled, was Henry A. Kissinger, who was both secretary of state and national security adviser and had what Ford said was "the thinnest skin of any public figure I ever knew." "I think he was a super secretary of state," Ford said, "but Henry in his mind never made a mistake, so whatever policies there were that he implemented, in retrospect he would defend." In 1975, Ford decided to relieve Kissinger of his national security title. "Why Nixon gave Henry both secretary of state and head of the NSC, I never understood," Ford said. "Except he was a great supporter of Kissinger. Period." But Ford viewed Kissinger's dual roles as a conflict of interest that weakened the administration's ability to fully air policy debates. "They were supposed to check on one another." That same year, Ford also decided to fire Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger and replace him with Rumsfeld, who was then Ford's White House chief of staff. Ford recalled that he then used that decision to go to Kissinger and say, "I'm making a change at the secretary of defense, and I expect you to be a team player and work with me on this" by giving up the post of security adviser.

2006-12-27 14:40:18 · 10 answers · asked by zeca do trombone 5

is this the feeling any of you guys get?tell me cuz i want to know if im the only one or if this is a usual felling i love my country id die for it and the songs just break me open and i get tears in my eyes is this normal?

2006-12-27 14:31:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so, what do they think of all these anti-bush & anti-war postings?

2006-12-27 14:17:55 · 17 answers · asked by mstrywmn 7

2006-12-27 14:13:37 · 11 answers · asked by wonder 2

Is it possible for a Muslim to become a Jew, you think?

2006-12-27 14:05:31 · 26 answers · asked by shadab a 2

2006-12-27 14:01:12 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-27 13:54:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

OUR TROOPS!!! Everyone feel free to show your support to all the men and women who are right now fighting for our freedom!

May they are come home safe!!!!

2006-12-27 13:53:28 · 7 answers · asked by Sandy H 3

I really want to play Coming Home by John Legend (it's a beautiful song listen to it if you havent already)....or should I play something else? What are your suggestions?

2006-12-27 13:45:32 · 14 answers · asked by michelle a 4

brought me in the whiskey locker, it was well known that his primary MOS was marine force recon, he put me in a special chokehold that completely blocked my breathing and the thing about it, he only used three of his fingers!!! marine boot camp is suppose to be legally "hands off". my question is, is making a big deal over a belt buckle suppose to make me a better marine?

2006-12-27 13:21:59 · 18 answers · asked by Beaujock 1

My son is 18 and is tallking about joining the military. Of course I'm terrified for him! Anyone out there have recent experience in the military? I'd like to hear from someone in all areas of the military, all of the branches. Any suggestions? My son has great interest in the Air Force, and he has an IQ of 140.

2006-12-27 13:11:58 · 26 answers · asked by cherokeee51465 2

Dec 27 2006 on MSNBC: "police discovered 49 apparent victims of sectarian reprisal killings."

Is it really sectarian violence or planned opps by the CIA to create an atmosphere for civil war? Do you know about the war tactics of "DIVIDE AND CONQUER?

2006-12-27 12:21:20 · 5 answers · asked by lovefights 3