Or how about this -
A handful of troops were dropped off on the side of a remote mountain - with pickaxes - to pickax out a shelf to set up a small firebase in the middle of "Taliban Central" - they had only been there a couple-three days - not enough time to have much in the way of a defensible position - and I can almost guarantee you, not enough detection devices to alert them of the enemy creeping up on them and obviously, we had no eyes in the sky watching out for them - or we could have seen that many enemy - a small, a VERY SMALL unit against what they are now saying up to 300 enemy...
The mountains in the Kunar are the infamous Hindu Kush - just the terrain itself is dangerous. It so isolated that the locals don't even speak Afghani - but Pastu.
This little band of soldiers were like ducks in a shooting gallery...and I can tell you one thing with certainty -
these soldiers did not "just drop their guard and bunch up"
Smoke it.
From the little that I can discern, our Soldiers gave back as good as they got. See Post #107, if you have not already done so. I like those unconfirmed numbers. Patton would be proud.
From the little that I can discern, our Soldiers gave back as good as they got. See Post #107, if you have not already done so. I like those unconfirmed numbers. Patton would be proud.