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I've been following Michael Yon ever since Bruce had an IOTD piece of his about battles in the corn a year or so ago. While I haven't always agreed with his take on everything in Iraq and now Afghanistan, there is no clearer and fresher look at things there. How to possibly be optimistic?
I've seen a lot of choppers land and take off but never seen the static show.
I just wrote a post for a US Army forum this morning about a Chinook that pulled a sick soldier from the fantail of a troop ship in a storm. Talk about a venerable aircraft: that was off the coast of Vietnam 43 years ago this week!
Even more venerable are the Gurkhas in Yon's story. They have been at it for hundreds of years (and that's just on the British side).
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