But the blogs point out this gaffe by Romney; on why we need more fancy new ships, corrected by the President/ The Navy is downsizing, and it's not the number of ships per se, but different types of ships for different wars that are needed.
However, the President also got a few facts wrong:
Leading to a Special forces type emailing Instapundit:
OBAMA: “You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And so the question is not a game of Battleship, where we’re counting ships. ”
n Special Forces (Green Berets) for a few years and when POTUS mentioned the horses/bayonets I immediately thought of this. We also used bayonets. I think the picture of the SF guys on horses would be perfect to highlight the POTUS’s complete ignorance on everything military.
Well, here you go:
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and a simple google will get you this article: Marines, Mules and the Middle East
At a California military training facility, U.S. Marines are learning how to use donkeys and mules as partners in upcoming combat missions in Afghanistan.
wikipedia article here.
I posted about this while back.
And no, I didn't use mules or donkeys as a missionary (although one priest used a horse to say Mass in an area where the main roads were landmined). However, I did have to ride a horse in a vaccination project in the mountains of Nicaragua when I was doing a summer stint during medical school.
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