U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is now confirming that three U.S. Servicemembers have been killed in action, and another five have been seriously injured. [SOURCE] One report indicates the three fatalities were the result of an Iranian missile strike against U.S. forces in Kuwait.
TAMPA, Fla. – As of 9:30 am ET, March 1, three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty.
Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing. The situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified. {source}
There are no details surrounding the deaths or injured. According to Military.Com, “U.S. forces across the region remain on heightened alert as commanders assess force protection measures and potential follow-on actions. Senior defense officials are expected to brief lawmakers in the coming hours as the scope and trajectory of the operation continue to develop.”
Dear God, we raise our voice to give thanks to You and to our brave servicemembers who have stepped up to serve and protect our country. We pray for the protection of our Armed Forces serving abroad during deployment. Keep from harm all those in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. Help them to be strong and courageous and do not let them be discouraged. Help them to feel Your presence. Help them to stay morally strong. Keep them healthy and free from sickness as well as injury. Guide them, be their eyes and their ears as they carry out their order and missions.
Heavenly Father, fill our hearts with thankfulness and appreciation for their sacrifice. Give us the wisdom through Your grace, to find direct words of prayer for comfort and strength. Help us to honor their service and retain our focus of abiding gratitude for their unwavering resolve as they fulfill their mission. ~Amen
O Keeper of the dawn and dusk, hold them beneath Your steadfast wing.
Let the dust of distant roads not dim the light within their eyes.
When the night leans heavy on their shoulders, be the quiet fire in their hearts.
When the wind carries the scent of danger, be the shield they cannot see.
Guide their steps through shadowed valleys, let courage rise like rivers in their veins.
Bring them home to open arms and gentle laughter, and for those who cannot return, wrap them in the eternal peace that no battle can disturb.
~ Amen!
Amen
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
…….and let YOUR perpetual light shine upon them……..
⁵x1000
AMEN
Thank You, Sundance. We trust God in all things. I pray these soldiers hold Him in their hearts to lead them. Your words and sentiments are beautiful.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
AMEN
Amen
I doubt they will be the last and it may not even be from enemy action. Many military operations are inherently dangerous even without enemy action and with this scale of operations the probability of accidents is high.
Thank you, brave men and women of our military. We thank your families.
God bless and protect the brave American patriots at the tip of the spear.
Amen.
I certainly don’t want to deny anyone the ability to speak and be critical…. But it would be of greater value if people could just BACK UP for a few moments, accept they are in the bleachers watching, and give this Dept of War the opportunity to highlight a new strategic warfare that is considerably outside their traditional warfighting frame of reference.
Hope, Pray and CHEER for victory. The armchairs will still be there at a more appropriate date.
{{steps off soapbox}}
Amen
Well said, Sundance.
Thank you.
Amen to both.
The ground combat doesn’t have to be US troops. Trump is betting on an Iranian revolution enabled by crushing AirPower that limits the ability of the regime to effectively respond to the uprising.
Which has never once happened. What Trump has done usually has the opposite effect.
Did you read Sundance’s post?
I fail to see how commenting here will have any effect on events in Iran. And what’s appropriate or not is always a subjective call.
You didn’t answer the question, Slick.
Yes! 💯. We’re not being led by incompetent people at the moment. Entirely different from past administrations.
Amen Sundance.
Excellent and timely advice. 🙏❤️
Military son says you are spot on.
1000x this
Thanks, Sundance, for your sage wisdom – recommendation to your fellow treehouse followers and visitors.
Amen and thank you
And what is victory going to look like, Sundance?
It certainly won’t look like you or one of your ugly comments.
Sundance, I posted this yesterday but will reiterate. I firmly believe PDJT is doing all this external action because he now knows that our Congress, whether Republican or Demon, is fully corrupted. So he’s taking out the ones that fund and protect the bad actors internally.
Had they passed the Save Act and many other laws quickly, I would bet good money PDJT is not doing what he’s doing with such veracity on the global stage.
Just my .02 dollars. But I really believe it.
I’m with you. Take out the bad actors abroad that have been the money spigot of congress laundered funds. Then they are basically done for.
Keep calling Thune and also tell him McConnell is a corpse and he will be there soon if he orchestrates this planned failure
Erik Prince probably sees a business opportunity here. People should be cautious of all three of these individuals. 🤔
Yes. So important to stand back and see how this plays out with patience and faith. President Trump has already prepared us. Told us this is a large operation, told us there could be casualties on our side. He weighed the pros and cons. He took action. Supporting his leadership in the heat of this moment is our best and only course.
Semper Paratus !
Semper Fi !!
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS and their leaders, may His will be done !!!
The first successful Agency color revolution was Kermit Roosevelt’s, in Iran, 1953. The Shah was the beneficiary. The CIA (and the Brits) then orchestrated his overthrow twenty six years later (on both occasions, it was about oil) and installed Khomenei, who went rogue almost immediately, a circumstance that could have been foreseen by any with an above room temperature IQ. Subsequent events are, therefore, on the US. And those invoking some sort of moral crusade might want to have a glance at Trump’s NSS. This has nothing to do with the Iranian citizenry and ‘democracy’. Trump himself abandoned them to their fate in 2019/20, just as he has the Kurds whilst chumming up with Jolani who, lest we forget, is an Islamic fundamentalist. Care to have a stab at squaring that circle, Sundance? Truth, agendas etc etc….
I smell dirty dirty socks and stinking feet every time I read one of your posts.
It’s ALWAYS best not to have a mouthful of hot coffee, or adult beverage, OR…
ANYTHING ELSE…. when reading TCT !
Ma, your pushback keeps me reading.
~ty~
Zzzz… BTW, the CIA was not behind the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh. It was all an MI6 operation.
Steadfast.
A different perspective from the good people at Promethean:
And for the families we also pray, God of comfort, watch over the families of our soldiers. Give them strength and peace. Help them cope with separation. Fill their hearts with hope and love. Let them feel Your presence. Protect them from worry and fear. Reunite them safely. Amen.
Now we’ll have to endlessly hear the demented Democrats and rinos blather that US troops have died.
They won’t have anything to say about the hundreds of thousand Americans citizens that have died at the hands of illegals though. And the tens of millions that have been victims of their crimes.
Democrats don’t care about soldiers’ lives.
They’ll use the inevitable death in this operation to further their own ambitions.
Just like they don’t care about our Constitution but they’re happy to wave it around when it’s convenient.
Democrats hate this country.
When Not-So-Pretty and Not-So-Good died due to their own recklessness and stupidity. . . you could sense the ghoulish Dems’ excitement. George Floyd all over again.
Chicago so far this year…
239 shot, 56 homicides
Last week…
33 shot, 6 homicides
So far for US population it’s safer in ME.
“Democrats don’t care about soldiers’ lives. They’ll use the inevitable death in this operation to further their own ambitions.”
Just like everything else with the Dems/left, the end justifies the means.
I can hear them now…..
Look how many troops died and were hurt putting up that floating dock for humanitarian reasons in Gaza under Biden.
“Depart, O Christian soul, out of this world,
In the Name of God the Father Almighty Who created thee.
In the Name of Jesus Christ Who redeemed thee.
In the Name of the Holy Spirit Who sanctified thee.
May thy rest be this day in peace, and thy dwelling-place in the Paradise of God.”
Amen 🙏🏻
Ms. Betsy, You speak the best prayers.
Beautiful. Thank you Betsy.
In Jesus name, Amen.
Thank you Betsy!
Condolences. Prayers for the souls, families and those affected by it. No politics now.
Thank you David.
Amen🙏
Amen and may His Will be done.
Bless their souls. I can’t help but think of those who believed the pre-election promises and the current administration’s actions when they were so against any more wars, like the claims that ‘Kamala is going to get us into a war.’ They were elected on that very promise. Go back and listen to them brag, then tooting their horns about increased enlistments. Then you have Jared and Steven doing the negotiations, and surprise, surprise. A deal couldn’t be reached. Now that family gets to bury a son or daughter , and listens to the BS on how this was a beautiful war.
Iran has been at war with us for 47 years.
This is just the first time we’ve gone on offense.
Key now is don’t stop until the regime falls.
Who was it that removed the Shah and installed Khomenei, only for it to go bad almost immediately? And who was it who installed the Shah in 1953? A clue – the acronym starts with a C and has an additional couple of vowels. You reap what you sow.
Go back to huffpo. This AIN’T the time or the PLACE.
IN all do respect to Ad rem.
I think he’s right and I’ve never read huffpo, or Axios, or AP or any of that nutjob Leftist rot. And you don’t get to decide what people are allowed to say.
I think hes wrong and sounds like a huffpoler.
But you are correct ,I don’t get to tell people what to say, But please read SDs post again…
And Remember Our Troops.
Had someone stopped Iran and their state sponsored terrorism decades ago countless lives would have been saved. Including American lives.
They are being stopped *NOW*.
When someone enlists in the US military it is voluntary.
As the saying goes, we sign a blank check to the United States of America for any amount up to and including our lives.
We train for war so that we don’t have to have war, or if we do, eventually we have peace.
Nobody wants Americans to die or be injured, although there are those who view this as an opportunity to advance a political narrative….
But death and injury are part of the known costs signing up.
Generally speaking, I’ve noted that those who would attempt to respond to what I am saying will ask in a snarky manner if I’ve served, so I’ll go ahead and take care of that now.
Yes, I served in the Army.
God Bless America.
God bless you sir
Amen Greg1, Amen.
They are known costs, indeed, and the brass ought to have a responsibility to resist squandering lives. If you can find any evidence that points to North America being at risk from Iranian missiles, please feel free to share it. Otherwise, it’s blood spilt without reason. Yet again.
Please point to the classified information President Trump shared with you so you could make that determination.
Otherwise your comment implodes.
I’ll wait.
Just do some research and think for yourself. I don’t think I’ll bother waiting.
” If you can find any evidence that points to North America being at risk from Iranian missiles, please feel free to share it. Otherwise, it’s blood spilt without reason. Yet again.”
I pointed out the flaw in your argument.
You do not have access to the classified info President Trump has…..meaning you made your assumptions based on nothing.
Trump was briefed, you were not.
You posted a self defeating argument in an effort to advance a political narrative.
I pointed out such a thing in my previous post:
“Nobody wants Americans to die or be injured, although there are those who view this as an opportunity to advance a political narrative….”
You literally did what I predicted someone like you would do.
Thanks for playing.
👍 👍 👍
You are speaking my thoughts.
Only with much more patience and courtesy than I could muster.
Great post.
TRUTH .
🇺🇸 🫡 🇺🇸 🫡 🇺🇸
🙏 🙏 🙏
👏 👏 👏
Clueless
Nope. Spot on, which I suspect you know. It’s a matter of record, after all.
Well said.
Funny how you clowns come in pairs.
Whereas the hard of thinking club is never short of members.
Ignore the trolls
Its hard to do sometimes…..
Even funnier Endurance did not deny it….
Even funnier? Point scoring BS, typical of someone who resorts to pejoratives when challenged. You are not alone.
“Whereas the hard of thinking club is never short of members.”
Your hypocrisy is showing….
I’m scoring points? Now I know you’re a clown.
Perhaps they ,them, are an, a bot.
I was just noticing that…
You forgot to add “you didn’t vote for this” or “the midterms” or “I’m done with MAGA.” Please add one.
Oh go toot your horn to someone who cares. Troops get hurt exercising. Crossing g the road. Partying in dorms.
The Gholish Dems will “celebrate” this as a way to take down Trump….It won’t work… RIP and prayers for their families…
Amen! 🙏🙏🙏
Amen.
May God Bless and protect our military, wherever they may be.
Prayers for the families of the fallen. 🙏
Sundance,
I will support President Trump in this but I feel sick because they are going to try and destroy him over this action once again.
Do you think this was an unnecessary risk to take coming off a great State of Union address and a rise in approval ratings?
I was hoping he would pivot to the economy for the rest of the year.
Any thoughts would help clarify the why now!
Why now? You leave politics aside & you strike whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Look what happened when William Jefferson Clintoon declined to strike Osama bin Laden.
That would be the same Osama bin Laden that received oodles of US cash and weapons when the Russians were in Afghanistan, would it not?
Which has nothing to do with our unwillingness to wipe him out a decade later. Your point about who helped depose the shah is similar silliness.
Everyone in those circles is dispensable and both sides know it. We just don’t follow up on our end out of Gutlessness.
Of course. Doing stuff you have no right to do, which then goes wrong, can always be corrected by simply murdering your own creation, along with his daughter and other family members. America’s ‘divine mission’.
Right to do? Per whom?
Acknowledging the reality means you should probably stop digging.
Seriously?
Osama isn’t the issue now, is he. Khamenei is (was).
Please pay attention. You tried to draw the comparison, not me. Your absurd argument was that our having helped depose the Shah should have driven all of our decision making around the theocratic tyrants. That’s looniness.
Yes. These are DS dark operators and everyone knows the score. Our DS creates far more problems than it solves. You’ve listed two of them.
You still haven’t addressed the point that each of the events was discrete, yet you used it in your absurd argument. I said so. Your answer was nonexistent.
If you say so. If, on the other hand, the US hadn’t got involved in another country’s affairs in the first place, there would have been no need to get involved again, once you’d screwed up. I see those events as connected, not discrete, and I imagine most people would be able to follow that logic, yourself excluded.
Not Sundance but “pivoting” is a political action as is concern about approval ratings……..the real world is not about politics.
It is people like you we can’t count on.
Wonderful prayer! I don’t know if the Space Force is involved, but I am praying for them too.
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. .
Unfortunately, folks, “this is War.” Soldiers plan to come home, but always know they might not. (They go anyway.)
C’est la guerre. There WILL BE more.
We write a blank check on the day we enlist for up to everything we have to give.🖖🏻
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Amen
In Jesus name, Amen.
May God’s mercy & Grace surround their loved ones.
I’m sorry but this is unacceptable to me. I pray for our brave soldiers, the ones we lost, those who are injured, may the good Lord watch over them, heal and protect them forever more, watch over the rest of our military and comfort the families, wrap his loving arms around them. In Jesus name we pray. Amen
Then move. Oh, you can’t go to Canada, they support this.
Joan you don’t even know what I’m not supporting. Rude and predictable! Why don’t you ask before coming to conclusions. I support the prayer for these brave men and women in harms way. I have veterans from.my family that served in the US military.
You move to Canada! I want to fight for the USA not a foreign country!
You want to fight? Funny that it was your family doing so and not you.
You into strongly worded posts?
🙏🏻
These troops, our troops, died fighting for America. Not Israel. Not Iran. Not even Civilization at Large.
Yes, it benefits all of those, but they served, fought and died for America and Americans.
Our Duly Three-Elected President decided, correctly, that it was in America’s interest to end the reign of these 7th Century Death Cult madmen and butchers.
It stops their nuke program. It stops their missile program. It stops their terrorism funding. It makes Obama cry like a little girl. I think he wet his pants. No more pallet$$$ of ca$$$h. It hurts Chy-Na, who sent millions of Fraudulent Ballots here. It stops the murders of girls and women and Christians and students and Jews and ambassadors and Americans. It opens the way for a government friendly to us. It concentrates the minds of the wicked to contemplate their next move. No more shipping piracy. It brings peace in the Mid-East. Prosperity. It fulfills America’s divine mandate: it spreads the Gospel of Christ–and BTW, there are more Christians in Iran than Muslims!
There are a thousand reasons why this in America’s interest. And it’s not a Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden Endless War for GloboHomo.
This is the exact opposite. It is a Trump Blow AGAINST the Globalist Project–of which the Mullahs were a part. That’s why the Obama/CIA -girls were funding them.
This is for Endless Peace, not Endless War. Or at least a multi-generational peace, for the awakening. And the awakening is for your children.
That’s what it means to serve America today under a righteous President.
ps; Don’t worry. We’ll get to Gracie Mosque-Mansion and Pfauci Pfizer and the Dirty Cops and all the rest. God’s Word.
John 15:12-14
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Just like You, Lord, just like You.
‘America’s divine mandate’? Says who, exactly?
A: President George Washington in New York City on April 30, 1789, when he placed the United States of America into Covenant with Almighty God.
President George Washington’s First Inaugural Speech (1789) | National Archives:
“… It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow- citizens at large less than either.
No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence. …
… I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.” …….
That is why, for instance, hell sent Mayor Momba (“messenger of allah”) to subjugate New York City for his false god.
Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.
Thanks for asking!
The Iranian People Have Been Set Free!–Troy Brewer:
My understanding is that it is God who sets the agenda, not us.
Of course. But America also chose God.
AND, God chose the USA !
ENUF said !
GBY & GBAmerica !!!
There is no such thing as ‘America choosing God’. There are only people, innately flawed and a parade of presidents, most of whom have gone abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
Let me guess,
All the dems and leftists that refused to stand in support for our servicemen and servicewomen last week, will be bleating about this to anyone that will listen every chance they get.
Our military is made up of toxic masculinity. I say that endearingly. They are studs. They face death with courage and tenacity. The most important job in humanity is Mothers raising their children with unwavering love and devotion. The second is most likely men & their fearless protection of family and country. I have the utmost respect for men that put their lives on the line. “No greater love than to lay done one’s life for a friends.” John 15:13
It is NOT toxic masculinity – those are the words of the toxic feminists! It is the masculinity that is NEEDED for us to survive as a great nation!
The MOST IMPORTANT job in humanity is to love and obey GOD ALMIGHTY! Putting women at the top of God’s priority is to betray God Almighty – pure blasphemy from the feminist alter of the female ego, ie, the democrat party! Without men protecting their family there would be no family, no women or children!
Well said
It is not toxic in the least. These are warfighters!
Praying for my Navy grandbaby
Men are not babies.
You are always your mother’s baby. Even if you’re 70 and she’s 90.
This is human nature.
there is a time and a season for everything…..on this prayerful post on this tread is not the time for politics …..
for this old combat vet ,I assure you my heartfelt prayers are with the souls of those we lost and I pray for comfort for their loved ones.
watch over all our troops Lord .
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The immortal words of Jesus Christ speaking to his disciples at the Last Supper reaches us in these dark days of turmoil.
Each fallen soldier is our friend and a friend to this nation. The honor is ours to have been considered worthwhile enough for them to lay down their lives for strangers and for family. It is an overwhelming gratitude I have for them and their suffering loved ones. My prayers are that GOD is with them in their terrible loss.
In case you are slow to the table, like myself:
https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/4418396/us-forces-launch-operation-epic-fury
A heavy burden to Pres Trump who knows his orders will lead to the deaths of patriotic innocent men.
I say this as the mother of a veteran who was wounded on 3 occasions. Once saved by his heavy hot plated vest. It’s humbling to contemplate. Necessary actions.
Amen.
Amen🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amen..
Amen.
Lest we forget, God is always in Control.
“How can I learn to trust that God is in control?”
https://www.gotquestions.org/God-is-in-control.html
I pray for the families and loved ones of the fallen as God helps them on the path of healing. May God bless them. I pray God sends Jesus soon to end the darkness and misery of the world. In Jesus name, Amen and Godspeed.
In Jesus’s Holy and Saving Name, AMEN
Let not their sacrifice be in vain. May we all be liberated from evil tyranny and the chains that bind us in slavery.
Amen
Idiot Leftists are calling this action “Operation Epstein Fury.” I told one of them…..Epstein Fury: Democrats dressing as FURRIES screaming EPSTEIN!!!
I offer my prayers for protection for our brave military…..the protection in battle included in Psalm 91, which speaks of God as a refuge and fortress, and Deuteronomy 20:4, which assures that the Lord goes with you to fight against your enemies. Additionally, Isaiah 54:17 states that no weapon formed against you shall prosper.
Peace be with all, Amen!
Amen.
God bless these soldiers and their families/Friends…
One thing is certain….When they come home, We won’t have a President that’s looking at his watch….
amen and amen