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To: unclewest who wrote (21118)	3/11/2002 7:09:04 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think we are just reading a reporter's account of a soldier exercising his right to bitch. Yeah.. that could be a possibility.. But if they only thought they were going to be deployed for a couple of days to take down a "pocket" of Al Quaida resistance, I can see why they would leave their f*rtsacks behind, and maybe just take a couple of wool blankets or poncho liners... But we've got some folks over at the Pentagon secretly showing their disdain for how the operation was handled, mainly with regard to not having sufficient air support (Spectre) available. We can see this is the story provided by those guys who were pinned down by mortar fire. There's just no reason that I can think of that they didn't have a Spectre circling the battlefield 24x7, available to take out mortar positions. I can understand how choppers might have difficulty operating at that altitude, but Spectres should have been on sight. Which leads me again to ask, "where are they if they are not supporting operations in Afghanistan?? It's not like we had an entire corps on the ground.. 1,000 troops or so in a fairly localized area. Maybe I have it wrong.. but that's the understanding that I have, that there was no Spectre support on site. If true, that's just disgusting, imo. But the manner in which they are pulling 400 troops out of the line, and dancing around the issue as to why they are doing it, strikes me as their being some truth to these stories. After all, why not just rotate a new unit in there? Or didn't they plan for such a reserve so they could initiate a rotation policy? Did they go in fully committed, with no troops to back them up should the defecation hit the rotary oscillator?? (except the 1,000 afghanis and 10 tanks that were later sent, and rejected by the local Afghan commander on the ground). Hawk