ISIS recently captured Ramadi. What are the thoughts of those who deployed there? How do other OIF veterans feel about ISIS's gains in Iraq?

The Iraqi Army is weak (no surprise there) and it is terrible to see our gains go to waste. However, it would also be terrible to see ourselves stuck in Iraq for another decade. My personal preference of action? Deploy a MEU and the GRF to bolster the forces already on the ground, drive through Ramadi, Mosul, and everywhere else until we are on line at the Syrian border. Then hand the now pacified situation back to the Iraqi's while leaving a residual force (a battalion of infantry plus SF units should suffice) to kick ISIS in the nuts if they come back across the border and to shore up the Iraqi's while they sort out their own problems. I think the whole assault phase should only last 90 days tops (wouldn't even need Congressional approval then) and things would look much better.

To take the "defeat" of Ramadi to heart is hard for me. To say I care but I don't, and I believe I have skin in the game to say so. I was there from late 04-mid 05 (Camp Corrigador/Combat Outpost) then again mid 06-to early 08 (112 MiTT Camp Ranger/Corrigador). I've spent time there and know a large part of the city. I patched up Soldiers and Marines to include Frogman and ODAs. I've seat for weeks out in the middle of the city taking marksman fire daily, to sitting in the edge of the city in Solphia and Juwaba for months at a time running intel driven ops with Iraqi's with very little American support. I've drank the water, ate food from vendors, and purchased sheep for my Iraqi counterparts to eat during my longer stints away from US service support. I'm not sure if the Iraqi BN is still there that I was apart of. My second trip there for 15 months I lived within their walls learning more about them then I was able to teach.
I took a Iraqi Infantry BN from having one medic to running their own aidstation that received combat and non-battle injury casualties.
I've ran down many alleys there, bounced over numerous curbs, and brought in over 300 soccer balls to hand out to the kids around there that was shipped by my family.
I seen the Sunni Awaking first hand helping out Sheik Jossum
I assisted in demolishing the Ramadi Hotel, establishing over 6 water facilities with 23 new wells, and closed down a FOB.
I've seen 12 VBIEDs hit our small AO in a 28 day period that was catastrophic to us, and never knew of how many were looking for a target.
I've detained numerous people and engaged many individuals with several different weapon types.
Destroyed homes, vehicles, and lives off of someone's command that was miles away.
We worked within the city and the BN to get things to, what they say is an "American Standard", just to hear it all failed time and time again.
The Iraqi medical PSG still emailed me up until 2009 or 2010. He was concerned for me being in Afghanistan and at that time said Iraq and Ramadi were doing well.
Hummm... how times have changed...

I did not serve there but my son did. I feel that it is a tragedy that we lost any of our Soldiers there and if we went back it would mean loosing more son's and daughter's. They are not worth that sacrifice