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[demopilot]

1. Nope, no way. n/t

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[The_Casual_Observer]

2. There is definitely a bad vibe in the air right now.

[Hoyt]

3. I'd say full bird colonel ought to keep his mouth shut if any of that is true.

[titaniumsalute]

6. When he told me that I asked how this isn't in the media

I mean a fleet of people is like 7,000. He said it was supposed to be next week. But was pushed back until the week after Christmas. So I guess we will find out in a few weeks.

[Tipperary]

23. Fleet is a term used by the Navy. AF has flights, squadrons, groups, and wings.

I agree with the other poster who said this “full bird colonel” should be keeping his mouth shut if this is true.

[Blue_Tires]

41. So what about the Army?

We've got a division in Seoul and like a division and a half in Japan... Seems kinda light for an invasion force, doesn't it??

[Tipperary]

49. I also do not get an AF colonel using the term fleet to refer to any amount of AF personnel.

A fleet is a Navy term referring to a collection of vessels. This sounds like something someone heard on good old facebook.

[sl8]

7. +1

Whether it's true or not, I'd think.

[Aristus]

11. Hmm. I sense a court martial in someone's future.

If he's blabbing classified information...

[Sophia4]

13. I think it was Lindsay Graham who suggested moving dependents from

South Korea last week.

So this really isn't "news."

It makes sense.

[dixiegrrrrl]

60. Graham is a retired air force Colonel.

And has been beating the war drums .

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[Drahthaardogs]

43. AF Colonels are a dime a dozen.

I might believe a Marine Colonel, but I have no reason to believe an AF Colonel has this information

[xmas74]

45. Same here.

I live in an Air Force town. Full bird knows to keep the mouth shut or suffer the consequences.

I have a friend stationed in South Korea with his entire family-wife, son and one on the way. They're on Facebook posting about all the new years plans. He's a smart guy-if something didn't feel right he'd send the family home asap.

[marlakay]

64. My son n law is a Lt Colonel in AF

They spent two years in Korea. I am glad my daughter is not there now.

But Kyle won’t even tell his wife stuff. He keeps a lot of secrets.

They are in San Antonio now.

[xmas74]

65. They're supposed to keep secrets.

My friend in South Korea seems fine and has been posting plans for the new year. If he felt uneasy at all he could easily send his wife and son back home with an excuse about her pregnancy (wants her around family,etc) and no one would second guess.

[marlakay]

67. Thats true

My daughter had her second child while there. Its a good base she enjoyed her time there.

She got her masters online since she couldn’t work.

[Sophia4]

4. I woke up yesterday in a full state of anxiety.

I never experienced that in all my life.

This is a definite possibility.

[renate]

5. should either the Air Force colonel or his father-in-law be flapping his gums like that?

I don't doubt you or the fact that you heard that from him, but I can't imagine a colonel would actually blab anything so huge to a civilian. But I'm not in the armed forces, so what do I know.

[titaniumsalute]

9. I asked him that...

He said he wasn't sure but that is what is what he was told. On the other hand I asked about media and why it isn't in there? No good answer.

[Jersey Devil]

46. You got it

My son in law is an AF Lt Col and he says there is now way a full bird col would blab like that.

[Drahthaardogs]

51. It's bullshit

First of all, you would need a Top Secret clearance to know that shit.

One of the misnomers about Top Secret is that people think you can just access EVERYTHING.

You can't. You have are cleared to work on what you need to work on. Nothing more.

If he really had a Top Secret clearance and was tipping off the enemy, he would be in Leavenworth

[cwydro]

62. Absolutely. Sounds like a fb rumor. eom

[NightWatcher]

8. If they start evacuating SK, the world will know that war is coming.

Why kind of logistics are involved in getting that many people out of there?

[titaniumsalute]

10. He was talking about US citizens married/kids of active duty serving there

[NightWatcher]

16. That's how I understood you. How many people is that?

I think it would draw attention to itself and freak out the rest of the world and NK, China, and Russia among others.

[titaniumsalute]

17. No idea

Like I said I guess we will see in the next few weeks. I can't imagine world media not reporting this.

[Sophia4]

14. Letting the world know may be good. It might get the Chinese and the

Russians to pressure their friends in North Korea.

[Yonnie3]

12. Did he (the officer) specifically say war is coming or is that a supposition?

Saber rattling, bluffing and/or posturing forces sure sound like tRump's diplomacy tools. They certainly could lead to war, but that is not a given.

[titaniumsalute]

15. I don't know

My friend just said that his SIL is concerned because of the amount of resources he is moving to SK is unprecedented. Both aircraft and personnel.

The part that got me was the evacuation of US non-active duty living there.

I hope to fuck he's wrong.

[Yonnie3]

18. My hope too.

A week or two ago, I heard it reported that dependents weren't being allowed to go to South Korea. Sending dependents home at this juncture seems a prudent thing to do with all the tensions.

[45for45th]

19. Curious how long it will take

Curious as to how long it will take for this to hit the news cycle. Not exactly easy to hide moving that many people out of South Korea, especially if military personnel are already talking to civilians about it.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Hearsay is hearsay. My fear factor went up exactly zero. Thanks anyway.

[tazkcmo]

21. When I served in the Army

A tour in Korea was done without dependents or spouses. I don't know anything about the Air Force or Marines. But that amount of movement of military hardware is bound to catch the attention of any satellite owning country.

[lapfog_1]

31. not always

don't know when you were there but my nephew was there in 1995 and his pregnant wife was with him and his daughter was born there...

[xmas74]

47. Depends on job and branch.

I've known AF who were unaccompanied and know someone in the Army who has the whole family there right now.

[shanti]

48. Dad was AF in Japan in 60's, I was there

So, yes, Japan has dependents.

[xmas74]

53. Ive had two friends

Live in Japan while husband was active duty.

[maxsolomon]

22. Welp, I live in Seattle

So I'm vapor if NK isn't bluffing. Have fun in our Road Warrior future!

[CentralMass]

27. Portland here.

[maxsolomon]

32. You might live

far enough away from Bangor Sub Base on Hood Canal.

but the radiation won't be fun.

[CentralMass]

39. Yes. Being able to find an adequate shelter to survive for a few weeks is unlikely and then surving

in the aftermath after the radiation level drops is a dim proposition

[dhol82]

24. The closer Mueller gets, the more visions of Armageddon rise

Not amused.

[librechik]

66. Trump covering his butt is not a good reason for war

there is never a good cause for war.

[PJMcK]

25. Thanks for the accurate sourcing

A friend of my dry cleaners' uncle said that...

[newblewtoo]

36. Congratulations.

You have won the internet for today.

[YOHABLO]

26. Yeah Trump will be timing this just right. When shit hits the fan ... we're at war!

[roamer65]

29. Gen. Barry McCaffrey has repeatedly said war with NK this coming summer of 2018.

I suspect a bit earlier...probably May.

[C_U_L8R]

30. So Trump intends to be a war criminal

Being a common crook wasn’t enough for him. Sadly he’ll take the rest of us down with him in a radioactive klusterfuck.

[mobeau69]

33. A "Full Bird" is a colonel. There's no other kind.

[Tipperary]

40. Yes, there is a lieutenant colonel rank. Silver oak leaves. It is above major but below full bird.

They are frequently called “light” colonels.

[mobeau69]

59. "Full-Bird" is an informal reference only, not a rank. There are Lt. Colonels and Colonels.

[Tipperary]

68. Yes it is informal and refers to the eagle insignia. Both are called colonels but they are different

One is superior to the other.

[titaniumsalute]

70. Indeed

It would have been suffice to say Colonel.

[doc03]

34. I heard the same thing months ago from a friend that knows someone

that has a son in the Air Force.

[haele]

35. Nope. That's against OPSEC. FIL is pulling someone's leg...

My FIL was a full bird in the AF, also - and seriously, he'd never say anything other than "That question is classified, don't ask it..." for something like that. He wouldn't even joke about anything like that.
20+ years in the Navy, and I'd never tell anyone - not family, no one - if we were getting deployed. You just don't talk about schedules.

There's an old Navy saying - "Loose Lips Sink Ships". Any personnel movement is classified, and anyone who blabs that sort of thing is looking to lose his or her position and live in Kansas for a while - especially at that level.

Haele

[xmas74]

50. No one is running around, acting funny

Around my neck of the woods. No uptick in practice flights either -one of the few things that sets off talk around here.

I live next to a base that would play prominently in any air strikes. If someone started talking like that Leavenworth would be in their very near future.

[haele]

37. Is his FIL Lindsey Graham?

Graham was a JAG, don't know if he made it to O-6 or not. And he's the one spouting this "All military dependents should leave South Korea".
Of course, according to the news, there is a Multi-National/Multi-Agency War game/exercise ongoing in the area , so that might be one of the "events" your source was being told about. There's always a worst case logistics mission thread in these things.
I see it as sort of a Jade Helmet sort of thing that might or might not end in the next couple weeks or so.

It's all d***-wagging, anyway.

Haele

[Blue_Tires]

38. Sounds like your "friend" got that info from Facebook or InfoWars

and I'm not going to dignify it...

[sarisataka]

42. The military seems quite different

From back when I was in.

In those days Colonels didn't blab classified operational and deployment information all over the place. They also used the correct terminology for units of their service.

[bluestarone]

44. maybe tRumps plan to

get NK to strike first so we have reason to invade???? If they see families and such moving out? who knows

[name not needed]

52. As Supreme Allied Commander Europe, I can confirm that this actually happened.

[DFW]

54. Well, OK, I will not rule out anything, BUT--keep this in mind

As a rule, Republicans are cowards. They do NOT attack countries they think will shoot back.

Reagan "courageously" attack the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada. Bush Sr. attacked Panama. He stopped at the Iraqi border, wisely enough. Cheney and Rumsfeld cook up phony "intelligence" to lead up to the Iraq invasion, which Rummy claimed in the first few days would last "maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months." oops. But that was not intentional. It was a major miscalculation. They invaded because they THOUGHT it would be a cakewalk. Bush Jr. invaded Afghanistan because he thought he would find Osama bin Laden quickly, and leave claiming "my work is done here."

This is why they never invaded Iran. This is the only argument I ever won with Wes Clark. He thought Cheney would try to invade Iran, too. I said no way: They KNEW Iran would shoot back. Big time. So would North Korea. They have 5% or so of their population in the military. That would be the equivalent of the USA having 17 MILLION men and women in our military. There is no way in hell that we invade North Korea without tens of thousands of American dead and millions of Koreans. Kim has nukes, and will at least use them locally if he sees his situation as hopeless. Then Trump would try to use ours just because it's a toy he hasn't played with yet. I'm not sure our military is comfortable with him doing that, and they may balk at such an order unless Kim uses one on us first. For that matter, they might disobey a direct order to invade North Korea outright, and risk the constitutional consequences, declaring such an order a clear sign of insanity, and insist that the 25th amendment be invoked.

[Codeine]

55. The former Commander-in-Chief was asked about this;

[bluestarone]

56. wouldn't surprise me if Russia (they know what we're doing) already has a secret

army there to shoot some of our planes down under the cover of NK. just saying how messed up it would be to prove different. There would be one hell of a mess, to prove who did what.

[left-of-center2012]

57. I'd better stock up on my kimchi

(spicy pickled cabbage, the national dish of Korea)

[workinclasszero]

58. I figure some republican snitch will alert Trump to impending Mueller actions against him and

the nuclear war with NK starts the next morning.

[Sailor65x1]

61. Cool Story Bro

Tell your friend to lay off the sauce!

[marble falls]

63. Put a sock on this hysterical BS.

[LexVegas]

69. My dad used to tell me that war with the Soviet Union was imminent when we lived in Germany.