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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 09:36 PM Apr 2017

US service member killed in blast near Mosul, coalition says

Source: Reuters

A US service member died of wounds sustained from an explosion outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, the US-led military coalition said.

A statement from Operation Inherent Resolve gave no other details.

US-backed forces have been fighting to retake the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/29/us-service-member-dies-mosul-iraq-isis



Reuters
Saturday 29 April 2017 20.29 BST
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US service member killed in blast near Mosul, coalition says (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2017 OP
Have the Trump folks blamed Obama yet? left-of-center2012 Apr 2017 #1
Operation Inherent Resolve. Who comes up with this shit? CanonRay Apr 2017 #2
The same GOP flunkies who gave us Operation Iraqi Liberation. tenorly Apr 2017 #3
Found this. Quackers Apr 2017 #4
I wasn't far off CanonRay Apr 2017 #6
Republicans increase 'boots on the ground' frontline troops, the ground IUD deaths rise again Sunlei Apr 2017 #5
Rest In Peace, soldier. democrank Apr 2017 #7
As was said of our involvement in another Asian civil war: KingCharlemagne Apr 2017 #8
Wonder if Trump will congratulate his family. Solly Mack Apr 2017 #9

CanonRay

(14,038 posts)
2. Operation Inherent Resolve. Who comes up with this shit?
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 11:26 PM
Apr 2017

I have this image of some schmuck in the Pentagon coming up with it and some three star general signing off for the Deputy Under Secretary for Mission Names to approve.

Quackers

(2,256 posts)
4. Found this.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 07:26 AM
Apr 2017
http://www.govtech.com/em/safety/How-Pentagon-Names-Military-Operations.html

(TNS) — During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged military leaders to come up with valiant names for battles so no mother of a fallen soldier need say her son was killed “in an operation called ‘Bunnyhug’ or ‘Ballyhoo.’”

More than 70 years later, Pentagon officials faced a similar problem when they struggled to choose an operational name for the widening campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

The branding effort took weeks, involved a classified Pentagon computer system called NICKA, consultations with military officers in Baghdad and Washington, approval by two dozen partner nations, and the endorsement of top Pentagon brass.

Thus was born Operation Inherent Resolve, a moniker so inherently bland it sparked jokes on late night TV.

Until 25 years ago, the U.S. military issued random code names for exercises, landing beaches, headquarters, attack plans and other operations, from Aberdeen (an Allied objective in Burma in World War II) to Zipper (another World War II attack plan). The point was to protect secrecy, confuse the enemy and simplify communications.

More at link above:

CanonRay

(14,038 posts)
6. I wasn't far off
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 10:22 AM
Apr 2017

a whole classified computer system. Last government agency I worked for, the computers were so old I swear they had duct tape on them.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
8. As was said of our involvement in another Asian civil war:
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 11:32 AM
Apr 2017
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

~John Kerry, 1971
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