Special Forces In Afghanistan Whining About Lack Of Helicopters

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Shit like this makes me ask "Why are we there?" My balls are bigger than your balls? My god is bigger than your god?

One would think that a $150 billion dollars a year in Afghanistan should be enough to give these guys a few choppers.



The frustrating episode was far from an isolated incident, say members of the special ops community who argue that such missed opportunities underscore the need for the commander of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan to have his own sizable element of lift aircraft. Beyond a handful of helicopters, the commander of CJSOTF-A, which is composed largely of Special Forces and always led by a Special Forces colonel, has never had his own lift capability.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/09/army-afghanistan-special-forces-want-more-helos-090510w/

[formercia]

1. Being Air Mobile would cut down on IED incidents.

IEDs are cheap to make. SAMs would really drain their resources.