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Someone at MoveOn needs to be able to recognize UK uniforms and kit when they select their pictures for their ads.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200512/POL20051201a.html

Someone at MoveOn needs to be able to recognize UK uniforms and kit when they select their pictures for their ads.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200512/POL20051201a.html

Oooops. But of course they were right. Those guys were definitely not going to be home on Thanksgiving.;)

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to dispute that about 150,000 men and women of the American armed forces will not be home for Christmas dinner none the less. I'm sure it was an honest mistake on their part.

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to dispute that about 150,000 men and women of the American armed forces will not be home for Christmas dinner none the less. I'm sure it was an honest mistake on their part.

Which would be why they put the same photo up (cropped to exclude the one wearing shorts) after being called on it.

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to dispute that about 150,000 men and women of the American armed forces will not be home for Christmas dinner none the less. I'm sure it was an honest mistake on their part.
And when it was pointed out, they repeated their mistake and put it back up again.

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to dispute that about 150,000 men and women of the American armed forces will not be home for Christmas dinner none the less. I'm sure it was an honest mistake on their part.
During peacetime, when I was stationed in Germany, in the late 1980s, there were 320,000 US troops in USAEUR alone - not counting the troops stationed in Korea and elsewhere. And not counting US Navy personnel aboard ships at sea.

It comes with the job, and very few troops, even in peacetime, even when stationed in the US, get to go "home" to their hometown for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

During peacetime, when I was stationed in Germany, in the late 1980s, there were 320,000 US troops in USAEUR alone - not counting the troops stationed in Korea and elsewhere. And not counting US Navy personnel aboard ships at sea.

It comes with the job, and very few troops, even in peacetime, even when stationed in the US, get to go "home" to their hometown for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

I got lucky and only missed one Xmas at home. I never went home for Thanksgiving and spent several overseas.

But any excuse to push some propaganda.

I got lucky and only missed one Xmas at home. I never went home for Thanksgiving and spent several overseas.

But any excuse to push some propaganda.

At the time I was in service, there were over 3 million in the Armed Forces.

Very few, if any, went home for Thanksgiving.

There are soldiers who we have over for holiday meals who are stationed at Ft. Myer - and most of them, although they are located in the US, are nowhere near their family hometown. So they don't get Thanksgiving at home, either.

Someone at MoveOn needs to be able to recognize UK uniforms and kit when they select their pictures for their ads.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200512/POL20051201a.html

It's actually a fairly regular thing to see the american media get confused about this. I have seen quite a few montages about US troops that have UK forces accidently included.

It's not even that difficult to tell the difference. Even if you are too useless to idenrify the difference in DPM material, you should still be able to recognize the difference in the helmets. It's pretty striking.

It's actually a fairly regular thing to see the american media get confused about this. I have seen quite a few montages about US troops that have UK forces accidently included.

It's not even that difficult to tell the difference. Even if you are too useless to idenrify the difference in DPM material, you should still be able to recognize the difference in the helmets. It's pretty striking.

This isn't the media. This is from a political hack group funded by George Soros.

Is this a telling sign of the future plans of the US?

Is this a telling sign of the future plans of the US?

Huh?

Is this a telling sign of the future plans of the US?
In what way? We have fewer troops overseas missing holidays than we did in the 1980s.

Oh god, take those pictures out of that site, those are brits, not americans, stop the insult on British troops!

Frankly I can understand troops not going home for christmas. Soilders have always missed such occasions, why should it be any different now?

There's better ways to prove the Iraq war was a bad idea than saying that some soilders might not spend time at home in the holidays.

In what way? We have fewer troops overseas missing holidays than we did in the 1980s.

No, the 'foreign troops presented as US soldiers' thing. It was a poor joke.

No, the 'foreign troops presented as US soldiers' thing. It was a poor joke.
Complain to MoveOn, who can't tell the difference and don't care.

Urrr... Did you read the 'joke' thing?

Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to dispute that about 150,000 men and women of the American armed forces will not be home for Christmas dinner none the less. I'm sure it was an honest mistake on their part.

When MoveOn makes truth a priority then it may start influencing US voters more. As it is now, it is seen as a rather nasty propaganda machine supported by some really far leftists.

At the time I was in service, there were over 3 million in the Armed Forces.

Very few, if any, went home for Thanksgiving.

There are soldiers who we have over for holiday meals who are stationed at Ft. Myer - and most of them, although they are located in the US, are nowhere near their family hometown. So they don't get Thanksgiving at home, either.


That is true. I can't remember a single thanksgiving that I was home. But again the majority of my service was in Germany and then the Gulf.