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progressoid

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4. What does "enduring offensive ground combat operations" mean?

Reply to rgbecker (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 11:45 PM

Feb 2015

Enduring means more than a few days? A few weeks? A few months?

It doesn't really matter though. This all seems like a political play to get the Repubs to shit or get off the pot.

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