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Current Events => Terrorism In the US and Around the World => Topic started by: Ballygrl on September 27, 2012, 10:06:49 PM
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Guys this needs to go viral, if you can post it on other conservative boards like Free Republic.
Report: U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Told No More Close Air Support…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/27/report-u-s-troops-in-afghanistan-told-no-more-close-air-support/
Here's an excerpt:
To the second point: I don't think that the American citizens would be happy if they knew that their soldiers were being prohibited from defending themselves in any way because of politically driven orders, but that is precisely what is happening in this war right now even as I write this letter. The soldiers of the U.S. never engage the enemy unless we know that we have will always have the tactical advantage in defending ourselves, that advantage is the use of close air support and air weapons team. To take those weapons away from us is to level the playing field for the enemy and thus exposing our soldiers to more danger. In the school house they teach us that the minimum ratio that we are to engage the enemy with, is a 3:1 ratio. In other words, we have the highest probability of winning because we don’t fight fair. The sound tactical principles behind this teaching have saved lives. The very presence of aircraft over our foot patrols has also saved lives and now our chain of command is being told by our political leadership that this is now not allowed. If we are not partnering with the ANSF and we are not actively patrolling to prevent our enemies from massing their attacks on our COP and we can’t drop a bomb on the enemy that we have positively identified, than what the hell are we doing here?