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To: unclewest who wrote (328624)10/12/2009 3:50:32 AM
From: LindyBill1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793964
 
He kept asking about the helicopters - his higher headquarters said they were "30 minutes out..."

All the way though this account, Unk, I kept asking myself, "where in the hell were the fast movers?'" Of course I know where they are. Under AF control, not the local Brigade. They should have had Warthogs chewing up those Taliban within 10 minutes. But "Noooo!"

When the Army handed over CAS to the Air Force in 1947, they set up their troops to be killed by the thousands in the wars since.