Green Beret bravery in Afghanistan

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Green Beret bravery in Afghanistan; amazing story of bravery retold on video
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MSantor	Apr 29 2008, 09:19 AM Post #1
Posts: 28,659 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #516 Joined: August 6, 2005	From 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/ma...tml?id=4029650n
	"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton


markniraq	Oct 16 2008, 05:00 AM Post #2
Member Posts: 248 Group: Regulars Member #1,162 Joined: September 30, 2006	Those are tough situations even though it was two years ago and nothing has really changed in the situation in Kandahar .. and those men are literally fighting for their lives of which stories can be told of bravery, sacrifice, etc etc.. I see why they are put into such predicaments. Most of the US Army is now behind hescos walled camps. There are some Advisory Teams now living in camps but they consist of just a handful. The US and Coalition Forces hardly ever go out to patrol and if they do its only for a few hours then back to the confines of safety. They are spread out in too many small camps with reliance on air support, technology. All the while the Taliban has a eye and bead on them and where they go and how far they go and they have infiltrators who have families outside in the nearby towns who are likely to be coerced by the enemy. Its like watching a pond and seeing who goes in and out and what lives there. That is the main problem in Iraq and Afghanistan and the inherent reason why the enemy can be so elusive. We are trying to fight a war on limited times basis from within the confines of hescos or Texas Walled cement structures thinking we can win the fight while all the time being surrounded by eyes. The US think they can chose the time and place of battles but in reality its the enemy. The US must organize, train and deploy local police, militias and Army and are haphazardly trying to do that through contracting out to Defense Contractors.
	"You Have Never Lived...Till You Have almost Died...For Those Who Fight For It.. Life has a Special Meaning the Protected will Never Know"


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