How many of you have served in the Armed Service?

[August]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I bet it is true to some extent August most likely was in Grenada it was a successful but a bit "cluster ducky" for example officers had to make long distance calls to the Pentagon to request air strikes.

Nope I wasn't there. That was an 82nd Airborne and USMC show and they did a great job. What you're describing is the normal course of events in any conflict man has ever fought. Fighting a war is an enormously complex and chaotic operation with many pitfalls and plain bad luck. The best army is the one that can adapt, improvise and overcome the many problems that always crop up and still get the mission accomplished, which apparently is exactly what those officers you mention did. Kudos to them.