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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Well now, in yet another shining example of political correctness gone to far...
Some dweeb has come out and proclaimed that the use of a certain Native American name to describe a certain former terrorist leader was demeaning to Native Americans and was intended to forever link the name of an honored warrior to that of this former terrorist.....no lie GI!!!!!
Now, I wan't involved in the decision to launch the operation and so am not privy to the back room dicussion on which minority group to piss off. But I am equally certain that it was not intended as a slur. While the details are still sketchy, most like a random code word was generated to name the overall operation and target IDs were assigned based on that code word.
Sooooo to assist certain dweebs who are paid waaaaaayyyy too much to flap their pieholes, I propose the following....
The overall Operation is named Fluttering Petal. OBL's target code word is changed to Shivering Sheet. Oh wait, I just insulted gardner's and weaver's. Damn! Can't win for losing I guess!!!!!
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It is ironic that this Native America Leader was considered in his time on par to what we considered the now deceased person of interest. I am sure 100 years from now they will call some obscure operation after OBL for much of the same reason. I am sure their will be an outcry about it. American and Brits seem to have a habit of calling operations by random code names. At times they are used as open secrets, others they are just that, to make you wonder what the hell they were talking about in case anyone else who wasn't read in on it to make them to keep guessing. The Code name of this operation did both at the same time... Quite brilliant if you ask me. Kinda like in 1989 at Fort Bragg after Sept. Everyone knew at Bragg that there was this small Special Operation Detachment, other Green Blankets Teams, some Corps assets such as the MPs we kept on rotating in and out, and of course quite a bit of the Division was going to play in tiny country with mostly jungle and one huge canal that we held the title too.
In late November we knew we were like 3 weeks or so out. How did every trooper knew who was going, well it was quite simple. One of the Battalions of the DRB 1 was sent to Jungle training. When your Battalion was DRB 1, 2, and 3 you did nothing but maybe go out to the rifle range for training, and kept busy around your barracks as much as possible. So for whoever had the bright idea to send one of those battalions did so as boneheaded of move as one could. We were lucky Pineapple Face didn't declare war as soon as they started their training cycle. Yet, he foolish kept up with his boneheaded ways.
Now what is ironic how do you invade a county in which you already have 1 Brigade stationed there reinforce by a Brigade size commands of the 5th Mechanized, 7th Light Infantry, and several MP Brigades, Battalions, and Companies, which were reinforce by the long freight train of planes flying out Pope bringing the Green Beenies, Delta, and remainder of two Brigades commands from the 82nd... Hell he didn't realize until inbound traffic of aircraft was overhead that he was in trouble...*Shrug*
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