PsyOps
My Way News: "A psychological operations unit broadcast announcements in Arabic meant to draw out gunmen. An Iraqi translator from the group said through a loudspeaker: 'Brave terrorists, I am waiting here for the brave terrorists. Come and kill us. Plant small bombs on roadsides. Attention, attention, terrorists of Fallujah.'"
Read elsewhere that Marine were broadcasting heavy metal to drown out mosque announcements . . .
posted by Chester at 11/09/2004 08:32:00 PM
3 Comments:
How about some classic Queen?
'Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me!'
...
'I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me'
(He’s just a poor boy from a poor family -
Spare him his life from this monstrosity)
'Easy come easy go-,will you let me go?'
BISMILLAH - NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
'Let me gooooo!'
BISMILLAH - NO! WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
'Let me go!'
WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
'Let me go - '
WE WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
'Let me go - '
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
'Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beezelbub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for meeeeeeee!"
*rock out to air guitar*
'Bismillah', btw, means "in the name of God" - highy appropriate, don'tcha think? :-D
I read somewhere that they were blasting AC/DC.
Personally, I'd think it would be funny, if in poor taste, to blast out some Bruce Springsteen and REM....
A quote from the story at the Yahoo link in a previous comment stands out:
"It is very different and very difficult, beyond what we've ever had to do," General Webster says. "This puts infinitely more demand on our young soldiers and leaders, because in urban operations you have to be very decentralized."
This points out the importance of our communications abilities, as well as the emphasis on leadership pushed well down into the NCO ranks. I know from experience that the Marine Corps does this quite well; in the first Gulf War, I was a Cpl filling a SSgt billet, and no one in my chain of command gave it a second thought. They just assumed an E4 could handle an E6 job if necessary.
And Happy Birthday, Marines!
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