Obama’s mission creep continues. 4,000 US troops from Fort Carson in Colorado were sent to Kuwait this past Thursday.
The 3rd Brigade Combat Team bid farewell to the post in a ceremony and will head off soon to serve as U.S. Central Command’s Reserve force in the Middle East – the first soldiers into battle if a major combat force is used to battle Islamic State fighters.
The unit is Fort Carson’s heaviest force, armed with tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Many of its soldiers are veterans of one or more of the brigade’s four combat tours in Iraq.
“We’re no strangers to deployment,” the brigade’s commander, Col. Greg Sierra told a crowd gathered for the ceremony.
Mission creep for ISIS to Kuwait is ok for progressives since the media doesn’t cover this important story anyway.
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Sierra’s soldiers have trained for more than a year for the Kuwait mission. They practiced skills that atrophied over more than a decade of counterinsurgency fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, re-learning the armored combat skills last used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“We are absolutely ready for this mission,” Sierra said.