14 September 2009 Helmand Province, Afghanistan With the war increasing, Air Force Pararescue has been crisscrossing the skies picking up casualties. That’s the Green Zone of Helmand Province, the opium capital of the world. Those fields are the great ATM
08 September 2009 Helmand Province, Afghanistan Just before the mission, soldiers form up near the memorial for our fallen. The mission was simple. Taliban had been watching FOB Inkerman and British patrols from various compounds and we were going to
A lot of my progressive friends are having a hard time understanding why folks on the other side of the aisle are so angry and behaving like, well like leftists. Last week I went to a town hall held by
When I saw that Michael Yon had joined us here at Big Hollywood, I was overjoyed. This is a great opportunity to expand his audience and, frankly, everyone should read his stuff. Yon has been embedding with military units in
Fox News: In an Aug. 14 attack by the Taliban in the Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, Bernard, 21, of New Portland, Maine, was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. AP photographer Julie Jacobson, who was embedded with Bernard’s unit, captured
6 September 2009 This story was published in the New York Daily News on 6 September 2009. Helmand, Afghanistan – The West is losing this war. This has been obvious for more than three years. Less obvious is that in
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC: Guards hired by the State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in a “Lord of the Flies” environment
The members of the ruling class of the British Isles seem to be committed to demonstrating that they are nothing but hopeless neo-socialists busy sacrificing their green and pleasant land on the altar of nanny-state multiculturalism. It seems that every
31 August 2009 Helmand Province, Afghanistan The historical Afghan elections scheduled for 20 August were days away. While the west mostly continued to vote for Afghanistan, the big question was, “Will Afghanistan vote for itself?” The latest media wave splashed
27 August 2009 My embed with British forces has ended. Will be out with U.S. forces for the foreseeable future. After that, will strike out alone into the wilds of Afghanistan. There are two more stories in the pipeline about
On Pharmacy Road Captain Henry Coltart on Pharmacy Road 24 August 2009 Helmand Province, Afghanistan The British soldiers of 2 Rifles had a mission: clear and hold Pharmacy Road. FOB Jackson is currently home to Battlegroup headquarters for 2 Rifles.
Helmand Province, Afghanistan A gunshot ripped through the darkness and a young British soldier fell dying on FOB Jackson. I was just nearby talking on the satellite phone and saw the commotion. The soldier was taken to the medical tent
17 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The roads are so littered with enemy bombs that nearly all transport and resupply to this base occurs by helicopter. The pilots roar through the darkness, swoop into small bases nestled in the saddle of
10 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan Daily dramas unfolded, including the bangs, booms and small-arms fire that punctuated the times. At 1800, I was preparing to go to orders with 1 Platoon, A Company of 2 Rifles, when shots from a
AP: The Department of Defense released video it says shows two insurgents being killed by an airstrike after they placed improvised explosive devices along a road.
Thursday night, 06 August 2009 Afghanistan I made this photo last night in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This Landing Zone is very dangerous. A few weeks ago, another helicopter was coming into this LZ and was shot down at the last
Embedded video from CNN Video CNN: Forty-one percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday say they favor the war in Afghanistan — down 9 points from May, when CNN polling suggested that half of the
05 August 2009 The helicopter pilot wearing night vision goggles roared in so fast it looked as though he were crashing. The four green Cylums (Americans call them Chemlights) mark the HLS. While the helicopter is above the dust cloud,
03 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The bugs are not bad in this part of Afghanistan. The scorched terrain is biologically boring. Mice and ferret-like creatures dash around in the evenings when sparrows and doves and a few other sorts of
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy AP: Three U.S. troops were killed when roadside bombs ripped through their patrol in southern Afghanistan, while a French soldier died in a gunbattle north of the capital.
[youtube ceQHFTQfo74 nolink] In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: American Health Care, Congressional Democrats, President Obama, Congressional Budget Office, Rahm Emanuel, The Economy, Afghanistan, Global Warming, Michelle Obama, Walter Cronkite, Cruise Ship Murder, and Coldplay.
The new U.S. general in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign and may include a request for more U.S. forces that could run into opposition from the White House.
Sangin, Helmand Province Afghanistan 29 July 2009 Orders are given before every operation. The orders filter down through various unit levels involved, until each platoon finally receives its specific mission. The concept for this mission came down from the 2
It has been six months since the Administration took office and the far left have taken complete control of the government. Has our capitalist past been improved upon? Or, is the socialism we have had thrust upon us making us
