All Americans to Afghanistan

[RicInOR]

This is a bit self serving, but I'd appreciate prayers, good thoughts, and other positive energy for my nephew.[1]

He and the All Americans are deploying to Afghanistan.
Operation Freedom's Sentinel


Story here:
"There's evil in the world, and paratroopers have to do something about it," Kuhlman said. "There's evil in the world, and dad's a paratrooper. We fight evil where evil is."

Fort Bragg paratroopers headed to Afghanistan


He is in the: 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.


- I posted a picture of him around here somewhere:







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And, his mother & grandmothers.

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[No_Regerts]

Prayers for your nephew and his brothers in arms. May they return safe to their families.

 

[rick benjamin]

Confessing to be emotional while praying for them.

 

[ikemay]

Prayers for their safety while deployed and their safe return.

 

[GOG]

On the way.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Hoping they get the job done & get the HEII out of there ASAP.
We prayed for my dad to come back from his 82nd & 101st Airborne deployments back in the day, will do the same for ALL soldiers sent to eradicate the evil in this world.

Kill em all & let Allah sort it out with the 72 Virginian's....

 

[Stomper]

GET SOME!!

 

[Ura-Ki]

Give I'm hell, and come home safely!!!
Prayers for all my brothers and sisters sent down range, we all appreciate the sacrifice made on the alter of freedom! God speed, and God bless the selfless warriors!

 

[RicInOR]

From this morning -- Facebook links.

2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
3 hrs ·
The White Devil Battalion recently arrived to our new home and are getting settled. The Battalion conducted a very professional transition with the Rakkasans of the 101st Airborne Division. We appreciate their professionalism and teamwork throughout the transition process.

#Airborne
#AlltheWay
#StrikeHold
#BuildingLDRS
#ToriiRemovalProject

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Seeing those unit designations brings back a lot of memories...

This is a long bleeping war; I'm also praying that our troops have everything they need (particularly great leadership) and this damn war ends soon.

 

[DirectDrive]

Seeing those unit designations brings back a lot of memories...

This is a long bleeping war; I'm also praying that our troops have everything they need (particularly great leadership) and this damn war ends soon.

This ^^^

Stay vigilant, kill some Talleys and come home.

Godspeed.

 

[RicInOR]

32 days in. Same unit as my nephew - the 504th.

Military identifies Fort Bragg soldiers killed in Afghanistan suicide bomb attack

 

[clearconscience]

F!
I hate reading any of our people were KIA.


Godspeed to your family, and the families and friends of all our other brothers and sisters overseas.
Stay strong buddy. And keep us posted.

 

[11Charlie]

Damn that's not good news!!

Prayers for your nephew and his unit. May they finish there job and get home!

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Thousands of our bravest and brightest young people have died in the GWOT.....thousands!

THOUSANDS!

 

[CoastRange57]

This is not a war. If it was a war we should have won, (what ever that means) by now. This country has spent billions of dollars in that shi*hole and too many American lives.

I lived the deployed military family life for 18 months. We had one son in Iraq and one in Afghanistan at the same time. Both in combat roles and multiple contacts during their time there. I do not wish that life on anyone, but you support them and their brothers in arms, and you cry with them when they come back and deal with PTSD.

I will pray for your nephew and all the others as I do every day. May he do whatever it takes to come home. May our leaders get our troops the f out of that sh*thole as soon as possible.

The Marine Corps likely lost 3 in a Osprey crash off Australia today. My son told me tonight that he was inserted multiple times on an Osprey in Afghanistan, the other was on a MEU in Australia and flown on those as well. You never know when the danger is close by.

 

[CoastRange57]

This ^^^

Stay vigilant, kill some Talleys and come home.

Godspeed.

I told my boys I don't care if you have to whack those raghead mfers a telephone pole high, do whatever it takes to come home.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Try to lay eyeballs on this 2017 movie, War Machine.. starring Brad Pitt as General Stanley McChrystal.. the guy fired by Obama for speaking plainly to their embeded Rolling Stones guy.. for a couple months, lol.
folly is pretty sad,

War Machine (film) - Wikipedia

 

[RicInOR]

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/...k-72984/w30_RTS1A3BJ/main_1200.jpg?1501869254
U.S. troops assess the damage to an armored vehicle of NATO-led military coalition after a suicide attack in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on August 2, 2017. #

Ahmad Nadeem / Reuters

 

[RicInOR]

In the news this morning


4 US soldiers wounded in IED strike in Kandahar

4 US soldiers wounded after an IED attack in Afghanistan


I didn't get any messages from my brother, so I doubt my nephew was at that location. But it serves as a reminder that Afghanistan is a dangerous place.