Remember the discussion on getting supplies 6000 miles away? Looks like we have been proven right. Our military is running out of the things it urgently needs. And this is not a simple thing to fix. Who didn’t talk to the quartermaster? (Correct me if that’s wrong, Denis, please.) Who didn’t think this through? Our military leaders are better than that. Trump isn’t. Thank you, Raw Story:
U.S. troops in Iran are staring down a difficult situation in the wake of strikes that killed Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that U.S. troops are racing to destroy Iran’s ballistic and nuclear missile facilities before they run out of interceptors to defend from Iranian retaliatory strikes. The exact size of the military’s ammunition base is classified, but analysts and former officials who spoke to The Journal said the stockpile has been diminished after repeated conflicts in the region.
Well, golly gee whiz, whooda thunk? Someone thought supplies magically replenished, and it wasn’t our military. They know better. So who got clobbered when they needed to discuss it? Who ignored the people who know? This is not a video game, and supplies do not automatically restore themselves. There have been multiple missions over that way. And we’ve been hammering Iran pretty hard, yes? It could have been a good idea to start some sort of supply runs before the war actually started, especially if the ships were already over there.
At the same time, military troops are working to fend off a series of retaliatory strikes from the Iranians. U.S. Central Command said on Saturday that they mounted a “largely successful defense against hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks,” according to the report. “One of the challenges is you can deplete these really quickly,” Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, told The Journal. “We’re using them faster than we can replace them.”
If you think about how fast a missile can be launched, how fast our planes can fly and lob missiles or drop bombs, they’re certainly going to go fast! I don’t know any specifics about this sort of thing, but I can guess. Our systems are really sophisticated these days.
Troops are also running low on sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles and aircraft-launched weapons following the operation last year to take out Yemen-based Houthi militants, according to the report. “Eventually it boils down to numbers,” Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Journal. “How many interceptors will we have versus how many launchers will they be able to field and fire.”
I hope we can get supplies over there fast enough. None of us would enjoy watching that count drop. It has to be nerve-racking. I am so proud of our military because I couldn’t do that, even though the Marines and the Navy both wanted me. (That was a shock!) Wouldn’t even make it through Basic. We can say we’re proud of them and support them back here as much as possible. It’s not another missile, but it’s their countrymen standing behind them. I hope it helps.
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It’s an old one, but apt:
Who can tell how the lobster got
Into the lobster pot?
When he went in he did not doubt
there was a way out.
There was not!
Ahahaha thank you!
The J-4 is the quartermaster’s role for joint commands. Since reports are referring to Centcom, the J-4 fucked up. Centcom is a joint command.
If it was the army alone, it’d be the G-4 (division and corps level). If just the Navy, the N-4 at the same level.
All of them may have screwed up.
Thank you very much for that information! I wasn’t sure how it worked so I’m very glad you told me. 🙂