Page 10 - Platoons News Today

Niece guys were. you saw what they did where they came back into mosul and took over. >> sean: number one, thank you for all of your hard work, thank you for your dedication. its sad that this happened. all of the rules of engagement, all of the guys that have been arrested, protecting their platoons and put in jail in some cases, outrageous. appreciate you telling your story. >> thanks for having me. >> sean: when we come back, very important question of the day, we need your help and it has to...

Thanks for joining us this morning. alive day. the day your platoon was attacked in afghanistan. before we get to the three soldiers killed in afghanistan talk about your platoons in afghanistan. >> sure. yesterday june 10th, 2006, 11 years ago was a rough day for my platoon and i. 25 guys on a ground outpost in eastern afghanistan. on the morning of june 10th, 2006. we got attacked by 250 insurgents. these werent just farmers with pitch forks. heavily arnold and heavily trained jihadists two su...

>> well, first, i dont think folks really understand thats a situation that theyre running to, because they do have the other objectives in mind, but i remember when i was going into the marine corps. id already been in the reserves as a soldier. i was going to be a marine. my dad was a marine and my father was a mum ford point marine. one of the first platoons that trained blacks to be in the marine corps. and i remember my dad saying, baby, i dont want you to go into there. i dont want you to ...

Range, short-range objective. if it can be achieved, i think it is something we should want to get paid and then you go from the longer-range stage of abolition of the program. right now, that is not reachable, but i think it would be worth it to stop diffuse from burning. >> bret: charles, as always, thank you. well be following this breaking story throughout the show. the military is investigating the details of the mission of any bandstand that claimed to u.s. army rangers earlier this week. ...

Thats, i think, is the medium range, short-range objective. if it can be achieved, i think it is something we should want to get paid and then you go from the longer-range stage of abolition of the program. right now, that is not reachable, but i think it would be worth it to stop diffuse from burning. >> bret: charles, as always, thank you. well be following this breaking story throughout the show. the military is investigating the details of the mission of any bandstand that claimed to u.s. ar...

They are submarine officers, working on carrier decks, american pilots in the sky right now, intelligence officers, some of them are with armored platoons and artillery. it is a very real shooting war. i was kind of amazed we didnt have an expression, a statement of that. donald trump has spoken, apparently, from a moving vehicle and apparently he won tonights debate. >> that was really exciting. made all of my points. make america great again! from that, we pivot to chuck todd. our political di...

Now, intelligence officers, some of them are with armored platoons and artillery. it is a very real shooting war. i was kind of amazed we didnt have an expression, a statement of that. donald trump has spoken, apparently, from a moving vehicle and apparently he won tonights debate. >> that was really exciting. made all of my points. make america great again! from that, we pivot to chuck todd. our political director, moderator of "meet the press." i dont know how much of our discussion you have b...

Theyve learned. 20-somethings leading platoons in life-or-death situations. the cutting-edge technologies that theyve mastered. their ability to adapt to changing and unpredictable situations. they can perform under pressure. theyve helped reconstruct towns. theyve managed large-scale projects. theyve learned how to work on teams, how to stay committed to a mission, how to solve problems. they get stuff done, and they are selfless, and they are brave, and they are qualified, and america needs fo...

People on earth. think about the leadership they have learned, 20-somethings leading platoons in life or death situations, cutting edge technologies, their ability to adapt to changing and unpredictable situations, they can perform under pressure, they can reconstruct towns and mediate disputes, managed large scale projects, learned how to work on teams, stay committed to what mission, how to solve seemingly intractable problems, they get stuff done and are selfless and brave and qualified and a...

Hearing of the attacks including immediately redirecting a surveillance drone to benghazi, ordering two marine platoons to spain to deploy, one bound for benghazi the other for tripoli, ordering the commanders and force training in croatia to move to a u.s. naval station in italy and dispatching a special operations unit to the region from the united states. about his review, the chairman howard buck mckean, a republican, stated i think ive been pretty well satisfied that given where the troops ...