Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Khobar Towers attack, 20 years later - We must never forget" video.

  1. Putting Airmen anywhere but defensible dispersed tent cities ware grossly negligent. Never forget that US troops had ZERO reason to live in a facility with such a close perimeter. We used to look DOWN on it from the dorms they were so close to the fence. The previous Beirut disaster and Khobar Towers both reflected the profoundly stupid preference for luxury over dispersion. (When I deployed out of SW to KKMC we lived in those buildings and the idiotic inexcusable perimeter was commonly discussed among enlisted maintainers.) Valid reasons do not exist to billet troops in force-loss multiplier structures. Given Beirut, Khobar should not have happened yet it did so I mention this in case some young future officer gets the hint. Americans died, were wounded and suffered PTSD because fools wanted comfy billets. Yes, I'm bitter. Every base in reasonable conventional attack range should disperse living quarters. (North Korea knows every structure in South Korea and its purpose from decades of overhead and other intel. That includes dormitories. They also know how UN-hardened US facilities are and how few bunkers and HAS exist to protect vital assets other than aircraft themselves.) Unless leadership (and everyone in position to remind them...) are watchful the temptation to choose comfort over proper dispersal will remain if not in the ME then elsewhere.
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