Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

many people are saying that his death rumours were a clever ruse, that he actually personally parachuted behind enemy lines, armed with just a shotgun and a bible. He killed 100 Iranian terrorists and rescued the pilot and hijacked a local helicopter a flew it directly back to the White House.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.

Oh I didn't go in himself, I had a golf round to attend but I gave each and every soldier very very specific instructions to bare in mind so they could reign successfully down on the enemy in the bigliest of ways, do you like my pen? its an example of how I could've saved money on the federal building if it wasn't fir Joe Biiiiden and Barack Huseeiin Obama.

Because even when you have all the tech in the world, soldiers are still just men running around in a warzone with rounds flying everywhere and are extremely vulnerable.

If they lost the amount of hardware being reported on then it would be very unusual for there not to be some casualties.

They had their families with them at Manama, the port in Bahrain where the fleet was based. Not much chance of proper defence for them against rockets, just a worry for the military knowing their families were on the front line of fire if they stayed in Manama. The rockets just fly, crash and blow the **** out of whatever is there, no discrimination.

As for the land-based marines, with the fleet at sea out of the Persian gulf, the Strait is directly between them, making a run in and a return run out between the Straits nothing less than a target practice zone on the double.

The problem here is the C-in-C is Trump, a man who will make decisions on the fly, without any strategic or political need to, just for the headlines.

Edit, at Field east: this might be what you were referencing from about the relief lift fro Manama. This is a partial lift from a facebook page quoting a group/body named NPR. I am taking the content below at face value without verification as a response to a sudden fact facing people.

NPR reports that over 1,500 sailors, their families, and pets have been evacuated from Bahrain after the Trump administration launched a war against Iran without doing the slightest bit of preparation for any possible consequences, like missiles being fired at US bases. "They had to leave in a hurry, many taking only a backpack with clothes. "They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" said Derrick Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk, VA. “They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack."Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration made no preparations for their arrival, either, forcing the local community to hold donation drives for basic necessities like hygiene products. "The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing.” The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society has handed out $1 million to roughly 2,000 sailors and their families since the evacuations began, said the group's chief operations officer Dawn Cutler, a retired rear admiral."I saw one gal — she had a 2-week-old and a 2-year-old and a dog in a crate and a suitcase. So she was just at the moment, you know, looking to get out of danger, get to someplace safe. And now we're at the point where families are back and they're starting to ask the question: 'Well, what's next? Will we go back?'" said chief operations officer Dawn Cutler of the NMCRS.

So we should expect a medical report saying the doctor thinks it's the best he has ever seen. And on the sh*tshow goes.

This.

I'm amazed at the skeptics here and efforts to somehow downplay what must have been an exceptionally difficult combat rescue operation.

No other country in the world is capable of doing the likes of this and the Maduro capture earlier this year.

The US intelligence and armed forces are exceptionally well trained and funded and getting out a missing Colonel who has been behind enemy lines for over a day without losing a single service member is insane.

I was very impressed and glad to hear the news when I woke up this morning

Some posters here I think would have been happier to hear that Iran captured him

I'd suggest the Irish Army Ranger Wing Operation Sparrowhawk in Lyberia in 2004 was a far more difficult rescue operation under far more difficult circumstances.

good American lives are waaay more important than Arabs, Palestinians

Netflix are probably drafting the movie scripts right now

There was some amount of nonsense in the media over the last two days with commentators saying that if he was captured a hostage situation could arise. He would have been a prisoner of war, not a hostage.

Trump in the mirror 'Repeat after me, I am not deranged, I am not deranged'

Could be worse, he could have control of 5000 nukes or something.