The fight is heating up in Afghanistan and the Marines of Task Force Leatherneck are arriving daily. American and Afghan forces recently seized fifteen metric tons of drugs, forty metric tons of bomb-making chemicals and they killed thirty-four enemy fighters during a 96-hour operation against a southern insurgent stronghold.
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Richard S. Lowry is the author of Marines in the Garden of Eden and The Gulf War Chronicles.
As the Greaseman would say, someone’s gettin’ the wood shampoo!
Glad to get the news. Are Canadian Forces involved?
My son is SF and was involved in this one.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090523/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
He makes two points.
1. there are a lot more than 60 guys fertilizing the poppies.
2. These guys were a whole lot better shots than the goat herders they usually fight they were foreigners.