Why we don't see footage like this every night on our local and national news is totally beyond me.
You know why! (Wink!)
If you've noticed, nothing much AT ALL related to the war that was captured on video has been released to the American public during the past two years. Americans would be thrilled to death and proud to see some of the derring-do and awesome equipment of our troops in action. But there's some kind of schizo thinking going on whereby we're urged to remember we're at war, but we're not allowed to see hardly anything that's happening in the war. Even when it would be inspiring to most people.
I don't buy the canard that ALL war videos released by the Defense Department are being tossed in the ashcan by the media. Some, probably...all, no. Au contraire, I don't feel that letting the public in on war action is high on the administration's priority list for some reason that beats me.
In too many cases, our only opportunity to view any war action is from internet links to grainy videos.
BTW, I couldn't bring up the videos linked here, either. They're evidently on a system incompatible with a lot of our systems. I get almost all videos linked from FR, but not these.
Leni