A Comment About

On the Front Lines in Afghanistan

December 8, 2008 - 12:13 am - by Michael Yon
Typewriter King
2008-12-08 04:09:21

“Some of these groups are too far out for helicopters to reach within any reasonable amount of time…”

The Marines developed the Osprey for some purpose, besides moving VIPs around for pre-election photo ops.

“So we can’t really expect illiterate, Afghan civilians to tell the difference between an American and a French jet at midnight.”

Yeah, growing up seeing all the clearly-marked UN convoys around the world, I always wondered how often the actions of the UN became attributed to the US of A over the years, not just from the fully illiterate, but those that weren’t native to the Latin alphabet.