Thursday, December 30, 2004

 

Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot, Over?

Sometimes these stories only make sense when I'm wearing my tinfoil hat:

Marines will stay close to home for urban training
Unit to use downtown Toledo

The Marines will take over parts of downtown Toledo as sounds of gunfire will echo off buildings when training exercises are conducted next weekend.

A Marine Corps unit based in Perrysburg will stage the exercises from 9 p.m. Jan. 7 to about noon Jan. 9, Maj. Gregory Cramer said.

"The only request we would have of folks, if they happen to be near where an exercise is taking place, is to stay away as much as possible," Major Cramer said.

Wow, now that's the understatement of the year. Tell it to the Fallujans.

Now, as a friend pointed out to me, if you were training people for desert warfare in Iraq, you wouldn't exactly send them to a Great Lakes city in the wintertime, now would you? (I mean, I'm no military genius like, say, Donald Rumsfeld -- but I'm just sayin'.)

So where exactly do they expect this "urban warfare" to take place, hmm?

posted by Michael 10:46 PM