Yon: Two Firefights, One Video
Michael Yon has a new report from Afghanistan, including a video clip: Two Firefights: One Video.
This weekend we lost eight more soldiers in a firefight.� I learned about it while they were still fighting, but did not report it until just before the media broke the story the next day.� Still unreported, to my knowledge, sources tell me that FOB Keating was destroyed and that troops were under siege for up to 24 hours before Air Force Para-rescue got them out.� (Subject to confirmation.)� The fighting will only intensify.� We can beat these guys, but not under current conditions.
The last two missions I did with British 2 Rifles ended in firefights.� Due to bandwidth difficulties, only a small part of the video was uploaded.� Those two firefights were melded into one short video.� These are just typical hum-drum day-in day-out missions, nothing like what happened this weekend in Nuristan.
