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Do we really have fewer bayonets?
Obama said we have fewer horses and bayonets than in 1916, I'm curious if that is actually true. The National Defense Act of 1916 authorized a massive increase in the military to 175,000 men. Currently the Marine Corps alone has over 200,000 active duty personnel, and the Army has about 560,000. Given that marines still train with bayonets, and both branches make them standard issue, I would think that equipping 760,000 troops (not including air force or navy) would require MORE bayonets than equipping 175,000 troops that included naval forces. Can anybody give me a definitive answer? It seems like simple math to me, given that 760,000 > 150,000
There have been a number of bayonet charges employed in both Iraq and Afghanistan. If you want to ask a question, use your own points.
6 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
NO
Our military is bigger and we have more bayonets. I am angry that the Commander-in-Chief didn't know this.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Pres. Obama's demeanor did not coach any anger at the same time as he answered to Romney's concept that we mandatory extra military ships. He develop into taking section in with Romney whose concepts are, as Obama suggested, from the 20s, 50s and 80s. Pres Obama develop into making the point that we've moved previous horses and bayonets. That develop into very humorous. I see no reason to be insulting about the President caling him an fool and a baby. THAT has no earnings. He has performed a lot to assist this u . s . out of the doldrums of 2008, for both Wall St and critical St.
- 9 years ago
hello, since you are parsing words--you will notice in the sentence structure the word "and" which means they add. so in fact there are fewer horses. tell me that you would not vote for obama for a greater reason that he misspoke on bayonets--please be a deeper intellectual american than this??
- El TecoloteLv 79 years ago
This is proof positive from President Obama's own mouth as to how utterly clueless he is about the military he's supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief of. Kinda scary, isn't it?
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- Anonymous9 years ago
I kind of agree with Obama on this. We need to leave Afghanistan.
If we stay there, it will be like the Vietnam War, we'll lose more guys and it'll just be drug out in agony.
In the words of JFK, "It's their freedom. They're the ones who have to win it or lose it."