Marines Discover Actual 'Arms Cache' In Sub-Sahara Africa
CHAD, AFRICA — United States Africa Command announced Tuesday that it's most rapid deployment since its founding was the result of inaccurate reporting and a large-scale failure of leadership.
Marines of the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Africa set out for landfall in Chad last Sunday in response to what intelligence reports referred to as a large arms cache buried approximately 20 kilometers east of the capital city, N'Djamena. When the Marines landed at the location, locals had already revealed what was in fact a large hole filled with human arms.
"The reports were inaccurate, but not entirely," explained Marine Colonel Patrick McNolte. "We did find the reported Chinese and Russian arms. It just turned out they were the severed arms of foreign workers temporarily deployed to Chad from their home countries."
Colonel McNolte also made note of the other human arms found, such as Nigerian arms, Chad arms, and Sudanese arms.
"We were a little confused when it was reported ther…
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