Comments on: FRI on Paktya

By: c hally

c hally — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:18:43 +0000

FYI I spent all of 2008 in Khost and we controlled more territory than that within the fob. And no one was dirving around ‘helpless’ to prevent ied’s and having ‘no’ contact with the locals. Most ied’s get spotted and disarmed or ratted out by the locals, because we spent quite a LOT of time in the little villages with the locals. OUT of the trucks, on the ground, with real Afghans none of you who pontificate daily about our failings have ever met. Salerno is not Afghanistan fellas, you haven’t been to Afghanistan if all you did was ‘spend time’ at Salerno. How about you guys go enlist, in the infantry, spend some time sleeping on a humvee in the middle of nowhere and then you can educate the world ok? Deal?

By: Joshua Foust

Joshua Foust — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:59:38 +0000

Well, not necessarily—that would presume McKiernan was the problem, and not the many years of his predecessors. We don’t have the data to support that.

By: tequila

tequila — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:47:24 +0000

Isn’t this sort of thing a great big reason why McKiernan should have been fired? Hopefully McChrystal can change some of this FOB-tastic crap.

By: David M

David M — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:03:03 +0000

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 06/10/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.