No, actually. I don’t know carpets and I don’t know jewelry so I didn’t buy any of that. But I know furniture. And guns. Lots of guns...
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No, actually. I don’t know carpets and I don’t know jewelry so I didn’t buy any of that. But I know furniture. And guns. Lots of guns...
You’re right. At this point he’s really just commuting to work.
Like contractor opportunities.
Shut up.
In the months right after Tora Bora, after UBL and his entourage of senior AQ leadership were essentially allowed to walk out of the Spin Ghar into Pakistan and disappear for nine years...Tommy Franks would buzz out of the MacDill gate with his entourage of black Suburbans and stop to glad-hand the flag-waving rich Trophy wives on Bayshore, (one of whom was the infamous Paula Broadwell, who probably should of married a general instead of a wealthy radiologist).
Anyhoo......I remember thinking at that time, Does this cat really have a handle on it? Or with Rummy and Franks are we looking at another MacNamara/Westmoreland shit show of guys who really never grasp the essentials of the conflict and spend their lives spinning bad news into optimistic sound bite cliches?
Anyhoo......I remember thinking at that time, Does this cat really have a handle on it? Or with Rummy and Franks are we looking at another MacNamara/Westmoreland shit show of guys who really never grasp the essentials of the conflict and spend their lives spinning bad news into optimistic sound bite cliches?
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Rummy was/is a McNamara acolyte, and it showed.
7th Special Forces Group ODA ambushed in Afghanistan in Green on Blue incident
A team from 7th Special Forces Group was ambushed today while conducting a Key Leader Engagement (KLE) in Sherzad, Afghanistan.
KLEs are sit down meetings, often with village elders, and while they are not combat operations in of themselves, they can still be dangerous due to taking place in a semi-permissive environment like Afghanistan. The team from 7th Special Forces Group was a Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) partnered with Afghan Special Operations soldiers. The incident is being categorized as green on blue, meaning that nominally allied Afghan forces attacked the ODA and their partner force. At this time two Americans are reported as killed in action and eight Afghan commandos are also reported killed in action.
Additionally, at least six more American troops were also wounded. The high number of casualties (17 as of this reporting) is attributed to the ODA/Afghan combined force coming under fire from a DShK, a Russian designed heavy machine gun which fires a 12.7mm bullet. The wounded have been evacuated to the appropriate field hospitals.
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Just sucks.
I'm sure more details will be disclosed as this story is still developing.
A team from 7th Special Forces Group was ambushed today while conducting a Key Leader Engagement (KLE) in Sherzad, Afghanistan.
KLEs are sit down meetings, often with village elders, and while they are not combat operations in of themselves, they can still be dangerous due to taking place in a semi-permissive environment like Afghanistan. The team from 7th Special Forces Group was a Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) partnered with Afghan Special Operations soldiers. The incident is being categorized as green on blue, meaning that nominally allied Afghan forces attacked the ODA and their partner force. At this time two Americans are reported as killed in action and eight Afghan commandos are also reported killed in action.
Additionally, at least six more American troops were also wounded. The high number of casualties (17 as of this reporting) is attributed to the ODA/Afghan combined force coming under fire from a DShK, a Russian designed heavy machine gun which fires a 12.7mm bullet. The wounded have been evacuated to the appropriate field hospitals.
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Just sucks.
I'm sure more details will be disclosed as this story is still developing.
"The latest chapter in the sad saga of green on blue incidents occurred in Afghanistan, and affected Soldiers belonging to the 7th Special Forces Group. Details are still coming in, but publicly-released information indicates that multiple SF troops were killed in action, and several others severely injured, in a green-on-blue that occurred today in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province."
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Heard it was green-on-blue but was hoping that wasn't true.
"The latest chapter in the sad saga of green on blue incidents occurred in Afghanistan, and affected Soldiers belonging to the 7th Special Forces Group. Details are still coming in, but publicly-released information indicates that multiple SF troops were killed in action, and several others severely injured, in a green-on-blue that occurred today in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province."
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Rest easy gents.
Why are these still being called green on blue? They should be called for what they actually are- an insider attack. GoB minimises it I feel.
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Discontinue all “partnered” operations- pull back to BAF, KAF, maybe Shank. Maintain a foot print to perform unilateral raids and reconnaissance. Discontinue nation building. Drop the bullshit- we are not a peacekeeping, nation building force. We are an occupying force who have forcibly taken real estate and will remain for the foreseeable future due to the strategic value of having bases in country. Call it a day and let the surrounding country go back to shit.
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