I was sorry to hear that a three US Soldiers bought it in Jordan over the weekend. Today they released the names and the unit they were affiliated with. They were reservists. I have no idea why they forward deployed these folks, but it seems to me they would have gone through a whole slew of active-duty units and staff before reaching for reservists.
I don’t mean to short those that serve our nation in the reserves; I do mean to question what the hell happened to the active-duty end-strength for engineer units that necessitated that staffing solution.
Photos and maps of the area show that territory to be on the pointy edge of the spear. My condolences go out to the family of those who gave all and those injured in Jordan.
On a related note I saw this headline and it gave me great concern. Either the leadership at the Pentagon, the Biden administration, or the snowflake reporters over at Reuters don’t understand how the national command authority works or where (what body) the constitution allocates the authority to wage war.
Sadly, most Americans don’t understand that either.
On a brighter note, I found this while I was passing through the pasture a short while ago.
Wars and rumors of war in far flung lands while life goes on and anew here in rural Tennessee.