http://registan.net/index.php/2009/03/04/needlessly-sensationalistic/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://registan.net/index.php/2009/03/04/needlessly-sensationalistic/comment-page-1/#comment-379990 Jason Monhollen Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:16:02 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/03/04/needlessly-sensationalistic/#comment-379990 The only way to really change the area is to hold it with a constant presence. The sweep the valley and then go back to the fire base technique doesn't work. The Taliban comes back at night and terrorizes the people. The PA NG at Morales Frazier just wasn't enough to hold a valley. They fought well though. They were there for about 5 months and engaged the enemy many many times with not a single KIA. Only one had to be sent back due to wounds, and he is much better. The only way to really change the area is to hold it with a constant presence. The sweep the valley and then go back to the fire base technique doesn’t work. The Taliban comes back at night and terrorizes the people. The PA NG at Morales Frazier just wasn’t enough to hold a valley. They fought well though. They were there for about 5 months and engaged the enemy many many times with not a single KIA. Only one had to be sent back due to wounds, and he is much better.

]]> http://registan.net/index.php/2009/03/04/needlessly-sensationalistic/comment-page-1/#comment-379989 Jason Monhollen Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:11:08 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2009/03/04/needlessly-sensationalistic/#comment-379989 Afghania was extremely hostile when I was there through July 2008. There was a single US PLATOON of about 35 men at Morales Frazier, not a company. They went on two patrols a day and engaged the enemy about every two to three days. Mullah Anwar, a Taliban commander, was killed during one of the fire fights. If your colleauges wander around Afghania without body armor then it has changed a lot since I was there. On Sept 9th of last year 3 US Marines and an intepreter were killed by an IED there. I was in a 6 hour fire fight on 21 April of last year while going to conduct a civil affairs mission there. Afghania was extremely hostile when I was there through July 2008. There was a single US PLATOON of about 35 men at Morales Frazier, not a company. They went on two patrols a day and engaged the enemy about every two to three days. Mullah Anwar, a Taliban commander, was killed during one of the fire fights. If your colleauges wander around Afghania without body armor then it has changed a lot since I was there. On Sept 9th of last year 3 US Marines and an intepreter were killed by an IED there. I was in a 6 hour fire fight on 21 April of last year while going to conduct a civil affairs mission there.

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