America Suffers Worst Airpower Loss Since Vietnam.
(Freedom Outpost) This article relates what the Mainstream Media left out of their version of the news this week: the attack on Camp Barber by Taliban forces last week was indeed the single biggest blow to US aviation assets since the Tet Offensive in 1968, and the worst damage that VMA-211 has suffered at enemy hands since their 13-day defense of Wake Island in 1941.
The media clearly does NOT want something like this to crop up during the last sixty days of the election campaign, but obviously the GOP does not either, or it would have been mentioned by the presidential and vice-presidential candidates and various news sources. Why? Because it isn’t “playing the game,” I guess.
But the hidden elements of the story are most important. The Taliban were wearing US Army combat uniforms: the article says BDUs but probably were wearing either ACU or some other digi-cam version, with combat vests converted to suicide bomb vests. After one Taliban killed himself to blow a hole in the fence, it took RAF security forces “just twelve minutes” to react. People, that is an INSANELY long amount of time to react to an attack of this nature, as three five-man sapper teams swarmed into the base – and the RAF first response was NOT a ground combat team but a UAV!!! And it was followed by an Apache. Supposedly, it took FIVE stinking hours to secure the base from a FIFTEEN-man attack, and more than 10,000 rounds were fired by the Brits? One of the two US casualties (the story didn’t report on RAF casualties, and fourteen of the fifteen Taliban were killed, the last wounded) was the squadron commander, a Marine LTC.
People worried about the US military forces being used to deal with civil unrest need NOT worry, if this is the kind of capabilities we are left with. If this is the security we have for a tactical airfield in a combat zone, you have to wonder if the Taliban didn’t just steal the uniforms from a Stateside post’s Military Clothing Sales store – not buy, but just shoplift!
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America Suffers Worst Airpower Loss Since Vietnam
America Suffers Worst Airpower Loss Since Vietnam.
(Freedom Outpost) This article relates what the Mainstream Media left out of their version of the news this week: the attack on Camp Barber by Taliban forces last week was indeed the single biggest blow to US aviation assets since the Tet Offensive in 1968, and the worst damage that VMA-211 has suffered at enemy hands since their 13-day defense of Wake Island in 1941.
The media clearly does NOT want something like this to crop up during the last sixty days of the election campaign, but obviously the GOP does not either, or it would have been mentioned by the presidential and vice-presidential candidates and various news sources. Why? Because it isn’t “playing the game,” I guess.
But the hidden elements of the story are most important. The Taliban were wearing US Army combat uniforms: the article says BDUs but probably were wearing either ACU or some other digi-cam version, with combat vests converted to suicide bomb vests. After one Taliban killed himself to blow a hole in the fence, it took RAF security forces “just twelve minutes” to react. People, that is an INSANELY long amount of time to react to an attack of this nature, as three five-man sapper teams swarmed into the base – and the RAF first response was NOT a ground combat team but a UAV!!! And it was followed by an Apache. Supposedly, it took FIVE stinking hours to secure the base from a FIFTEEN-man attack, and more than 10,000 rounds were fired by the Brits? One of the two US casualties (the story didn’t report on RAF casualties, and fourteen of the fifteen Taliban were killed, the last wounded) was the squadron commander, a Marine LTC.
People worried about the US military forces being used to deal with civil unrest need NOT worry, if this is the kind of capabilities we are left with. If this is the security we have for a tactical airfield in a combat zone, you have to wonder if the Taliban didn’t just steal the uniforms from a Stateside post’s Military Clothing Sales store – not buy, but just shoplift!
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About TPOL Nathan
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.