AI6YR Ben1d ago

"...NPR has learned that hundreds of sailors were evacuated back to the United States from their base in Bahrain after the base was attacked by Iranian missiles and drones. In addition to the base in Bahrain, NPR has learned that there have been evacuations at other U.S. military bases in the region, though the exact details are unknown at this point..... Around 8,000 people were stationed at the base in Bahrain before the U.S. attacked Iran on Feb. 28....Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world's biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies 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,""

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops

#Iran #War #Bahrain #military

Show threadKanaMauna

@ai6yr

I know Trump and company are complete idiots for starting this war, but Iran just didn’t beam down to the planet surface. We’ve had a very long time to think about this event. What the hell has the military been doing in the region for the past 40+ years?

Apr 5 at 2:12amWeb
Show thread7leaguebootdisk𓅽1d ago
@KanaMauna @ai6yr Not provoking Iran too far. Certainly we were unhappy with Iran, there was the Iran/Iraq war, Soviets in Afghanistan, Iraq invading Kuwait, and that just gets us though 1990 or so.
Show threadKanaMauna1d ago

@7leaguebootdisk @ai6yr

True. It just seems like if you’re gonna have a war in that neighborhood every decade or so maybe, just maybe, you harden your bases a little bit.

Show threadOrrock LXXXVI XLVII1d ago
@KanaMauna @7leaguebootdisk @ai6yr See #julianKtrescott
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp1d ago

@KanaMauna @ai6yr The American military payed good money in the ’50s and ’60s to be able to read Russian *cleartext*, by funding research in machine translation.

Instead of, you know, having personell learn Russian.

The treatment of Arabic and Pashto translators and interpreters has been really bad.

The cultural incuriosity is systemic.