Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
Ditto on the great piece

That made my knee (the real one) and my back hurt....

Tom
What's interesting to me is how similar some of the "down in the weeds" operational problems are to what we faced in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam (and some of the areas in I Corps close to the Laotian border). Not saying that there are "great, unlearned lessons from Vietnam" to be applied to Afghanistan, but more commenting on how some of the basic factors of war never really change that much. In that war B 1/26 would have been down around Saigon, slogging paddies as opposed to humping through the mountains.