AI6YR Ben2d 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 threadInfoseepage1d ago
@ai6yr This isn't what an invasion looks like. This is what a retreat looks like.
Show threadGuillotine Jones, Flâneur
@Infoseepage @ai6yr
But it's an excursion, infoseepage.
Apr 5 at 3:15amWeb
Show threadInfoseepage1d ago
@Guillotine_Jones @ai6yr Is that what we're calling this debacle now? Reminds me a bit of "expeditionary" forces, where the word also has the dual meaning of intrepid scientific and exploratory undertakings. The British army, which needed to get pulled off the beaches of Dunkirk was the British Expeditionary Force, for instance.
Show threadInfoseepage1d ago
@Guillotine_Jones @ai6yr Here the US is having to pull back its presence in a bunch of Gulf States, abandoning major military installations which it has held for generations in some cases, presumably because it quite simply can't defend these installations from attack, and Trump doesn't want headlines about more dead and injured US soldiers. I'll tell you this, if the US does wind up invading Iran, there's going to be a lot of headlines about dead US soldiers.
Show threadGuillotine Jones, Flâneur1d ago
@Infoseepage @ai6yr
"Excursion," is a word that Trump has used publicly for his ill-conceived and ill-executed military shambles in Iran.
It's emblematic of his failure to grasp reality, his narcissism, his lack of concern for the lives of others, and his sadism.