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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,097 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 08:51 PM Sep 2018

Army chief: Poland doesn't have space for 'Fort Trump'

The space proposed by Poland's government for a U.S. military base in the country may not be enough to allow U.S. forces to construct a permanent facility that Poland's president offered to name "Fort Trump."

U.S. Army Secretary Mark Esper told news outlet AFP on Wednesday that the space and terrain proposed by Poland's President Andrzej Duda did not offer enough room for facilities meant to train U.S. troops.

"It was not sufficient in terms of size and what we could do in the maneuver space and certainly on the ranges," Esper said, according to AFP. "You need a lot of range space to do tank gunnery, for example."

The terrain, he added, is "maybe not robust enough to really allow us to maintain the level of readiness we would like to maintain."

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/407519-army-chief-poland-doesnt-have-space-for-fort-trump

The dotard's probably all heart broken now.

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Army chief: Poland doesn't have space for 'Fort Trump' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP
The Poles are smart too. Nobody has space for rump...nt SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #1
I thought this was the Onion...n/t monmouth4 Sep 2018 #2
Was This Possibly A Bit By The Polish Government? ProfessorGAC Sep 2018 #3
But the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has a glorious dream... Achilleaze Sep 2018 #4

ProfessorGAC

(65,110 posts)
3. Was This Possibly A Bit By The Polish Government?
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 07:46 AM
Sep 2018

Call it Fort Trump but propose a tiny parcel of land?

If they did it on purpose, it's pretty funny.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. But the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has a glorious dream...
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 08:27 AM
Sep 2018

Wherein he stays home safe and sound playing luxurious, golden, gourmet, taxpayer-funded republican golf, while he courageously sends an Army of Mushrooms off to fight and die for his his glory.

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