NG LRS ops in Iraq

[LRS Guy]

Interesting article on NG LRS opns in Iraq.

www.scgonline.net/DI/WIB/No38/intelsnipersNo38,htm

[LRS Guy]

Admin please delete, previous post

The link is in www.scgonline.net/DI/WIB/No38

Yes I'm internet challanged and have chat on the "short yellow laptop"

LOL

[Lightwalker]

#2 got it. Thanks

[KKG]

Exactly one month prior to 9/11....Never should have happened. Bad judgement-poor leadership decision.

[LRS Guy]

The actual article was on intergrating LRS teams and snipers. The NY Guards 42nd Inf Div's LRSD is doing it in Iraq right now.

It was a shame about G-143 it was a good unit. There was some good guys there. I got to meet some of them in various places.

The problem with LRS is most commanders do not have a clue how to employ the unit. I met some guys from F-425 at BIAP, they said some good missions up north early in the their deployment. Then wound up doing convoy security, which was a waste of their skill sets in a LIC envoirment.

[KKG]

The 143rd LRSD pretty much got fucked too. I do not want to endulge too much info but from my vantage point- IT IS ALL POLITICAL!

[WS-G]

It was a shame about G-143 it was a good unit. There was some good guys there. I got to meet some of them in various places.Deadright. Couldn't have asked for worse timing for that unit inactivation. Out of the G-Boys who went on to other units (I've just now been assigned/attached to my fifth unit since), I think most of us have found things downhill since then. Still picked up a CIB out here in LegLand though — as well as some other unexpected perks of deployment — so it hasn't been all bad.

The problem with LRS is most commanders do not have a clue how to employ the unit. I met some guys from F-425 at BIAP, they said some good missions up north early in the their deployment. Then wound up doing convoy security, which was a waste of their skill sets in a LIC envoirment.

Not to mention, all the BRT's and Battalion Scout assets being wasted on FOB security.

KKG: Never heard a single good thing about G-143 from the mouths of those in my last TXARNG unit — a line Mech battalion — especially from the ones who couldn't get into G Co for one reason or another. The 49th AD definitely hated us :D . Still, my choice to transfer to Oregon had more to do with cost-of-living issues and the civilian job market than some anti-143rd bias.

[KKG]

KKG: Never heard a single good thing about G-143 from the mouths of those in my last TXARNG unit — a line Mech battalion — especially from the ones who couldn't get into G Co for one reason or another. The 49th AD definitely hated us :D . Still, my choice to transfer to Oregon had more to do with cost-of-living issues and the civilian job market than some anti-143rd bias.

The 49th geriatric fatbastard turret plug division has gone away too... :cool:

Thirty Sixth....Patch on my shoulder...Texas T-Patch....... :cool:

I can't wait for the reorganization to occur. :D

[WS-G]

The 49th geriatric fatbastard turret plug division....
Well don't go sugarcoating it! Just imagine the shock and horror I felt when I found out the only tank-heavy (and a-lot-else-heavy) armored division outside the Regular Army ended up getting tasked all over CONUS doing such high-speed, super-duper-secret vital missions as coonfingering through people's baggage at airports, babysitting powerplants and munitions depots and various other important missions that came up when NGB realized they had run out of ADA batteries and MP companies.

Thirty Sixth....Patch on my shoulder...Texas T-Patch....... :cool:

Wasn't planning on another interstate transfer just to get my T-Patch back (feels weird not having the 80's-era G Co scroll over it anyway), but considering all those pogues down in Kuwait and Qatar are being awarded "combat" patches and even getting hostile fire pay, I'm putting my foot down: I didn't spend a year of my life guarding all those chemicals from the caged white rabbits and tumbleweeds to not get my 49th combat pyramid on my right shoulder! :D

I can't wait for the reorganization to occur. :D

That could get a bit entertaining there....

[Rob_0811]

KKG

If you don't mind me asking, what unit are you in? I just joined up and will be an 11B with C Co in Dallas.

I've not heard much about the unit and am curious if you know anything about them, their training, optempo, etc.

Thanks,

Rob

[KKG]

KKG

If you don't mind me asking, what unit are you in? I just joined up and will be an 11B with C Co in Dallas.

I've not heard much about the unit and am curious if you know anything about them, their training, optempo, etc.

Thanks,

Rob

My unit? I do not wish to endulge such info at this point.

I will say no more than-I hear alot of rumors- what is planned in Dallas sounds pretty high speed.... I wont believe it until I see it; I am demoralized by the broken promises and tired of chasing the carrot on a stick. The Guard is plagued with carreer shitbags that wish to keep everyone else at their level.

[SN]

. The Texas Guard is plagued with carreer shitbags that wish to keep everyone at their substandard level.

Air side has the same problems, you can probably apply this brush to the Guard as a whole.

[Rob_0811]

Uh-oh.

[WS-G]

Dealing with idiots is a necessary evil anywhere in the Guard, but believe it or not, there are a few good troops floating around that unit (presumably C/3-144).

Never forget the 10% Rule.

[Rob_0811]

that's good to hear.

there's idiots everywhere you go. Hell, investment banking is full of them.

[WS-G]

True enough.

Was assigned to that unit from 7/2002 to 8/2003, though I spent that whole year with A Co at Umatilla Chemical Depot, OR. Despite some of the outright crap, one of the truly fine points was that some of those guys were some incredibly serious shooters.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

[BRT549]

I drilled with C/3/144 a couple of times in 2000. The Top was an Airborne/ Ranger/Pathfinder type that was getting busted out of the unit for not putting up with NCO's from other units messing with his Troopers over some total BS. I think he even busted a SFC in the mouth over the issue (my kind of of 1st SGT, IMO that what a good Top SGT will do if his Troopers are getting f*cked with. He said in front of the entire unit that he would do the same thing for any of his kids, but he would do even more for any of the men serving with him). I appraoched the CO about going to OCS and, in spite of me being qualified to go to OCS, he suggested that I focus on being the best NCO that I could be, and that was that (besides him being an employee of Lockheed Martin in Ft. Worth, having an orgasm about the Joint Strike Fighter, that's all he would talk about! I was Infantry, not a jet jockey!). Add to that it appeared that the CO left the Top twisting in the wind, I was out of there...... I hope that it's different now.

[CosmicTrigger]

I used to be in the 129th LRSD in Maryland. If its being run by the same clowns who were in it when I left, then I imagine they aren't going anywhere soon. Has anybody else been in that unit or played with them recently?

[PSYWAR 1-0]

Anyone copy the text of the article? The link no longer works

[KKG]

Which brigade had this on their crest?

"Go Texans Go!"

[Das Boot]

Man its good to see some more Texas Guardsmen here. I heard good things about the "Jumpin G CO" Too bad they got rid of it. What would you expect from a bunch of tankers. LRS is a Division asset and they never used them.

Hopefully all the mobilizations have exposed all the book cooking that went on.

[KKG]

All we have to do is enforce the BASIC army standards tomorrow. Give an APFT and H&W. Should anyone fail- FLAG their fat ass for the duration of the deployment(no combat patch, no CIB, no GWOT, NO AWARDS OR PROMOTIONS) then kick them the fuck out during DEMOB. Dumbasses have had their entire military carreers to keep in shape.

[KKG]

I heard good things about the "Jumpin G CO" Too bad they got rid of it. What would you expect from a bunch of tankers. LRS is a Division asset and they never used them.


G co 143rd LRSC was a III Corps asset while 143 LRSD is a division asset. Both are different.

[WS-G]

Man its good to see some more Texas Guardsmen here.
Well... former Texas in my case.

I heard good things about the "Jumpin G CO"
That unit had its fair share of ups and downs during its existence; most of us who were there at its inception as a Ranger company still regard the the early 1980's period as that unit's heyday. It was still an outstanding unit when I went back in mid-2000, but different in a few respects. E.g:: the "longhair" days had definitely been over for a very long time by then, and the newer generation of G-boys had never even heard of having 31C's on the teams like we did in the old days. Still, one consistent point throughout was that standards were rigorously enforced and nonperformers seldom lasted long.

[BRT549]

Which brigade had this on their crest?

"Go Texans Go!"
36th BDE

[Das Boot]

G co 143rd LRSC was a III Corps asset while 143 LRSD is a division asset. Both are different.

Oh didn't know that.... I thought they were just a detatchment from 143 LRSD.

[PSYWAR 1-0]

Oh didn't know that.... I thought they were just a detatchment from 143 LRSD.

Moi aussi.

I thought that the company was downgraded to a det, kinda like what happened to D-151 to 151 Inf Det LRS(yes there were a few years that the unit didnt exist in our case"

[KKG]

36th BDE

71rst BDE

[BRT549]

71rst BDE
My bad....