On Friday Sept. 14, at around 10.15 p.m. local time, a force of Taliban gunmen attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand Province, the main strategic base in southwestern Afghanistan.
About 15 insurgents (19 according to some reports), wearing U.S. Army uniforms, organized into three teams, breached the perimeter fence and launched an assault on the airfield, that includes the U.S. Camp Leatherneck and the UK’s Camp Bastion, where British royal Prince Harry, an AH-64 Apache pilot (initially believed to be the main target of the attack) is stationed.
The attackers fired machine guns, rocket propelled grenades and possibly mortars against aircraft parked next to the airport’s runway. Two U.S. Marines were killed in the subsequent fighting whereas eight of 10 AV-8B+ Harrier jets of the Yuma-based Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 were destroyed (6) or heavily damaged (2): the worst U.S. air loss in one day since the Vietnam War.
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I don't see how ya' blame this one on Bush! This thoroughly pisses me off!...
ReplyDeleteMore Americans dead.... insurgents wearing American Army uniforms....
Most of the recent murdered American troops have been killed by the Afghan's they've been training.
Most of the recent murdered American troops have been killed by the Afghan's they've been training.
ReplyDeletePrecisely, while we have foreigners guarding our embassies.
The marines have been busily employed in Afghanistan guarding Karzai's poppy fields. Lot of pictures out there, don't take my word for it.
ReplyDeleteHad my second TRT shot today. I'm ready to tear heads off. "Let's get 'em all, Michael, while we've got the muscle." Frank Pentangeli, Godfather II.
I remember when the book first came out and my friend in Vietnam couldn't put it down. His supervisor caught him reading it on the job, but he just kept on.:)
DeleteLeave these donkey rapist to kill each other and lets get our people out of there altogether. And how could they so easily penetrate an air field?
ReplyDeleteAnd how could they so easily penetrate an air field?
ReplyDeleteSet up, I imagine.