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Reminds me of a funny story (well, I think it's funny). We had a LRS-D unit attached to us in 2005 for a few days. For our purposes, they were simply a handful of shooters who were available, of...

Yeah. The guy with the clean uniform, who looks like he took a shower recently, and is eating a meal in a DFAC. Well, I guess that describes everyone in the photo.

That is treading very close to Schmedlap Truth number 2: The morale value of a reward or luxury is inversely proportional to the amount of planning and organization necessary to provide it.
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I've long wondered what it takes to not get promoted to Major, other than ETS. I'll be curious to see if this truly is a "career-ender."

The magnet. Nobody could possibly be dumb enough to think that jenga tower is providing overhead cover from anything other than rain and sunlight - or much cover in the way of direct fire. If it was...

WTF?????:confused:

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1036&stc=1&d=1265495769

The interview didn't strike me as having any target audience. How many people - other than us - are really going to sit down and watch 30 to 40 minutes of this stuff and have any idea what they are...

Interview with Soldiers involved in the fight: http://www.youtube.com/ISAFMEDIA#p/f/4/movYzOxeKso

Not gonna happen. I made that very same appeal, in person, to my battalion and brigade commanders as we were preparing to provide security for the referendum vote on the IZ constitution. I even...

Foust gives an interesting insight on Nuristan and on the specific area where this occurred: http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/10/04/higs-are-pigs-2/

It has been said that we "took our eye off the ball" in Afghanistan when we allocated resources to Iraq. In reality, we took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan for the decade plus that preceded...

How so? Eight US and 7 Afghan KIA after an onslaught by around 100 or so attackers who apparently know what they're doing? That seems like a pretty good performance by the good guys. I guess it...

Dang. I was hoping that this thread would serve a placeholder to shoot down any rumors. I guess it's for real.

This, too, just popped up a few minutes ago...
More at the link.

Yon said (about...

Moderator's Note

This was called 'Considerable casualties in Afghanistan' and was changed 2/12/2013 to FOB Keating attack repulsed. (Ends)


From Michael Yon's twitter feed, beginning at about...