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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (237373)	3/13/2002 3:08:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well baldy, if you understood and could visualize you would understand that Americans know the terrain far better than the locals. There are no locals who live in the mountains where the fighting is going on. As to equipment, well how may Afghans with there little equipment are now dead from fighting moving around the terrain. How many Americans. I also would not count the several who died from a sneak or lucky hit on a helicopter. I'd suggest an ambush has little to do with knowing the terrain in this case as opposed to a random piece of bad luck. No troops are really equipped to fight an attacking war at attitude. But American troops are the best and the best equipped. No local as attackers have stashes of food. No local have com equipment that can call in fire support and resupply. Locals don't have the best in lightweight clothing and high energy food supplies. Your words show you are clueless to the training and hardship conditioning that elite troops go thru. Yes listen to the reports of talking head reporters talking to local motor mouths giving expert opinions. LOL And baldy, I have been involved the the design of terrain mapping systems. Including 3D visualization and even flybys. pbase.com watman.com This stuff is 7 years old and is low low tech compared with today. tom watson tosiwmee

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (237373)	3/13/2002 3:58:57 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Respond to of 769670

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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (237373)	3/13/2002 3:58:57 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Our troops aren't "suited" to fight there? Why are you dissing our soldiers in this way? We're at a slight disadvantage for a number of reasons. Here are some, I'm sure there are others, but we'll win in the end, and that's what counts. One. The threat of altitude sickness. It takes a day or so to acclimate to high altitudes like that for some people. A person can actually die from alt. sickness. Two. We have to import our supplies as we need them, and use them. They have had months/years to stash things. Three: Since helicopters have some problems operating at these heights, it reduces the payload they can take. That means no heavy equipment without difficulty, like howizters. These in no way reflect on our soldier's capabilities, i.e. whether or not they are "suited" for the mts, but rather are hurdles that will and are being overcome. War isn't a video game, and things don't always go exactly as you want or plan, but we adapt. The American soldier is the best in the world, they "think on their feet", and no one should ever sell them short. Not having warm clothing/sleeping bags is a blunder, and the guy who made that mistake for the troops should be chewed out.