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To: unclewest who wrote (126932)	7/22/2005 5:28:31 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

That is because they deployed with SF A Teams. They are helpless alone. That is the A Team attitude. Actually, they are combat trained, although not to A Team levels. But the SF didn't want them, they wanted to do the strikes themselves. And they fought like hell not to take them. Wrong attitude. Why? 1) They are AF, and the AF wants their own people on the ground calling the strikes. 2) The two major "blue on blue" hits by controllers were done by A Team members, not AF controllers. BTW, that brings up one of my biggest gripes. The major problem the A Teams had in Afghanistan was the shortage of interpreters. They should have called the biggest community of Afgans in this country that spoke the northern dialects and had them volunteer several athletic young men. Put them on the CIA payroll and carried them in like a piece of radio equipment. Things would have worked much smoother.