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Exclusive: Iran's coal shipping trade booms despite Western heat
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...89P08H20121026
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Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail for tax fraud
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2012-10-26, 12:33 | Link #24344 |
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2012-10-26, 18:18 | Link #24346 |
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A year after Irene, US prepares for superstorm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...10-26-18-45-19 Let's hope than it didn't turn into another Katrina.
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2012-10-26, 18:46 | Link #24347 | |
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2012-10-26, 20:53 | Link #24349 |
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I've never understood why people that live in states that get repeatedly hit by Hurricanes or tornados are so afraid of Earthquakes. Sure they are usually unpredictable, but at least they don't torment you by having seasons for them, or coming in for several days threatening to wipe out your entire region.
And earthquake? Lasts maybe a minute? If your buildingd are built well enough there will be relatively little damage, and things will return to normal. Only the relatively rare quakes break everything or cause secondary events that destroy everything (large fires, tsunami and the like).
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2012-10-26, 21:05 | Link #24350 | |
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Personally, the earthquakes are done faster and we can have the post-apocalypse landscape and roving gangs in a drier scenario
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2012-10-26, 22:54 | Link #24351 |
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U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War:
"The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror havens of Yemen and Somalia. Camp Lemonnier, originally a French colonial outpost in Djibouti, a tiny, impoverished nation just north of Somalia, has been the epicenter of America’s Indian Ocean shadow war since just after 9/11. What was once little more than a run-down compound adjacent to Djibouti city’s single-runway international airport is now a sprawling complex of hangars and air-conditioned buildings housing eight Predator drones and eight F-15E fighter-bombers plus other warplanes, as well as around 300 Special Operations Forces and more than 2,000 other U.S. troops and civilians. According to an investigation by The Washington Post, the Pentagon is spending $1.4 billion to expand the base’s airplane parking and living facilities. The extra housing could accommodate another 800 commandos, the Post reports. The military is also adding new lighting to a emergency landing strip a few miles from Camp Lemonnier — an urgent precaution as more and more planes and drones pack onto the main base’s sole runway." See: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012...et-drone-base/ |
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In this aspect the article is simply giving an example. I seriously doubt the author of the article has the insider knowledge to actually know which type of troops will be stationed in the extra housing.
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2012-10-27, 04:00 | Link #24354 | |
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I pity the ppl who have to live in the expanded area, it's gonna be one long-ass walk just to get to the chow hall, and, well, just about everywhere... |
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2012-10-27, 04:38 | Link #24356 | |
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Given how sticky missions are in Somalia, they are probably relying on the covert forces, so most of the people there are probably Delta/ST6 or maybe SAD and probably a couple of companies of Ranger/Airborne for base defence and permanently taking positions, since most of the aircraft there are meant to be dropping weapons based on hidden targeters rather than providing air support (which are usually done by helicopters).
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2012-10-27, 05:44 | Link #24357 | ||
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Furthermore the article talked about the expansion of the drones. Now, what you will definitly need for drone operation is a specialized force that can operate and maintain such drones (e.g. units from the AFSOC or ACC). However, I would not consider such units a commando unit. Hence, the term specialized forces is less restricting for all 3 branches (especially air force). Quote:
In the case of very highly important targets the risk of using commando units might be worth it though (e.g. Osama).
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Maybe they have a different doctrine outside the less deep waters of SEA. Quote:
The article talked about specifically adding commandos, but a 200% surge sounds a little atrocious for a military wanting to keep a low profile. Quote:
That is what SERE training is for. Though it would be interesting to note what jungle can they live off in Africa.
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The best usage for the commando units would be the freeing of hostages and the elimination of highly important targets. Which is certainly needed in the region, but not in these numbers.
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2012-10-27, 07:15 | Link #24360 | |
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Camp Lemonnier isn't some secret socom base, it just happens to be the only base the US have in Africa. There are actually a rather heavy presence of third-party and local nationals working on-base, with frequent traffics of British and German (even some S.Korean) troops that goes through on a daily basis. And no, there is certainly no "couples of companies of Ranger/Airborne" running base defense - It used to be the Marines, as Camp Lemonnier was originally designated as a naval base (never knew why, as it's nowhere near the actual dock), but it has since been changed to an Army base, so army units would be the ones providing security. During the changeover (I was part of the last Marine security force), it was just some artillery unit that was rotated in for a few months as the end segment of their deployment. I mean, what kind of "shadowy" base have literally hundreds of locals coming in and out every day to work on base, where the base personnel (especially the army and the officers ) goes off base every night downtown to party and get drunk? >_> |
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