A US officer attempted to explain American armored vehicles stuck in Portuguese sand with part of the Trident Juncture-2015 exercise plan.
It would seem that Western military officials still have to admit the complete failure of the landing operation and, in the future, choose places for landing more carefully to avoid further incidents of this kind, but representatives of the American command of the operation decided to try to justify themselves. According to US Army Lieutenant Colonel Eric Hamstra, such an operation was planned ... That is, American armored vehicles stuck in the Portuguese sand, which did not pass even five meters, it turns out to be “part of the plan.”
Eric Hamstra (quote RIA News):
Portuguese edition The Observer ironically states that American armored vehicles burned fuel, throwing “banned” substances into the atmosphere many times more than Volkswagen cars were throwing out, for which “non-ecological” engine work the United States instituted a criminal case against the company ...
In general, now everything became clear. It turns out that the first case of the Marines during the largest NATO exercises in Europe was to master the skills of pushing out armored vehicles. It must have been indicated in the exercise scenario that “the enemy was so mesmerized by the actions of the marines trying to push the armored vehicles”, that he forgot about the opportunity to put them all in one powerful blow ...
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