Re: RPG Takes Down Chinook 25 SEALS + Dog + SPops
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MontanaMarine</div><div class="ubbcode-body">........"A helicopter crash in Afghanistan's eastern Wardak province has killed 30 U.S. special operation troops and <span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-weight: bold">seven Afghan soldiers</span></span>, the country's president said on Saturday."........
Gee, anybody else see what's going on here?
You can't trust these motherfuckers. Someone in the A'stan mil staff is a mole. This was obviously an important mission, and Taliban were tipped off (in my opinion).
Those profiting from our presence, don't want us to leave.</div></div>
A lot times I get the same feeling as you you do about this.
However looking back in history at not only this group of 'operators' I also look back into Viet Nam when too many of the same flights from one compound keep coming out and it's simply a matter of aircraft watching by the enemy to see when spec-ops troops go out. I lost a friend and former platoon mate who was 'advising' in '03. One too many times taking the only route to and from their very isolated base of operation and they got ambushed. Helicopters at high altitude are especially vulnerable.
I have the book MACV-SOG, in which the author seems to think there is a mole somewhere in the headquarters. Which, there well could have been. But, when they keep dispatching H-21's and H-34's, when everyone else is flying UH-1's, there isn't a whole lot of braincells used to know that it's them that's leaving. It doesn't take an insider to watch our compounds from a long ways away. And know who is doing what. Another friend was killed in Jan of '07 when his helicopter was litterally in an aerial ambush. Insurgents figured out that helicoptors use the tall buildings in Baghdad as screens as they fly through. They put a Russian .50 eight floors up facing one of the more common routes. When they flew past, they didn't stand a whole lot of chance of coming out of that. Nevermind that no one in the building didn't have any clue a group of men hauled something heavy up the stairs/elevator. Nothing seemed suspicious that way....
It's a terrible tragedy that we allowed this to happen. But there is a certain amount of complacency on our part that contributes to this every time. This doesn't negate the fact that what they were and what we lost is a terrible thing. RIP gentlemen.