Colin Parkinson
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overflights by B-52s at 10,000' would do a lot to convince the TB not to be to stupid.
Honestly I'd put those in the reserve as the BUFF's can loiter around the Pakistan border...overflights by B-52s at 10,000' would do a lot to convince the TB not to be to stupid.
Highlighted first area - it does not and NATO does not.IF the USG had the will - clearing the TB would not take long -- but it could be a little messy.
I suspect he's trying to play the reasonable one on the MSM, and paint the TB as unreasonable.
They mowed down about bunch of TB - claimed to be between 600 and 60, and when asked what the number was Massoud says, "600 or 60, they are Taliban so its a good start"
Thats was the Orange Man answer -- the Cadaver doesn't do thatProvided people are already being killed, short of renewed war there's always the Soleimani Solution to apply pressure. To paraphrase, nothing concentrates the minds of leaders and generals as the knowledge that they are the cannon fodder.
Halo vibesI mean...it's not the worst name.
It's probably good her Mom didn't fly out on a Herc.I mean...it's not the worst name.
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Afghan baby named ‘Reach’ after the Air Force C-17 she was born on
An Afghan girl born on an Air Force C-17 was named ‘Reach,’ after the jet that brought her and her mother to Ramstein Air Base.taskandpurpose.com
Edited to add: make that 4 out of 5.Australia has joined the United Kingdom and United States governments in warning citizens away from Kabul airport amid serious new terror threats.
Australians and Afghan visa holders have been urged not to travel to Kabul airport where rescue flights have been the only passage out of the war-torn nation.
While about 2650 people have been rescued from Afghanistan as part of Australian operations, the window is rapidly shutting for those still stranded in the country.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued new advice on Thursday as the situation deteriorated further in the Afghan capital ...
Mocking their enemy is one thing. They clearly don’t know history very well.
So we left 5 days earlier than the 31st? If we are only flying 2 C-17's a day in/out of Kabul, then our presence on the ground was likely never bigger than 2 full plane loads of C-17's available seatbelts, 188X2. If it was that small, then why the rush to get out 5 days early? From where I'm sitting and based on the limited information available, this looks bad. I find it hard to believe that if we stay another 3 days that we couldn't have gotten more of our people out.Well that’s that then. We’re done.
I don’t care what anyone says, this is not a good look for us.
So the deadline is not until Tuesday.Well that’s that then. We’re done.
I don’t care what anyone says, this is not a good look for us.
Let's say the US needs 85 C-17 flights to remove all personal and equipment over 4 days. That's 96hrs, now let's say, for whatever reason the US will only use the runway during daylight hours (currently its 13hrs/day), that brings it down to 52hrs. Now lets say that all of the Allies on the ground have the same amount of flights to perform, 85 flights - that's 170 flights in total over 52hrs. That works out to be less than 3.5 flights per hr. Sounds pretty doable to me. If so, our puny 2 flights a day are going to make much of a difference if we decided to stay another 2-4 days to get more people out.So the deadline is not until Tuesday.
We still have citizens in country, along with people who are approved for visas/immigration here. We still have air assets available to us, including C-17s, a C-130 or two, a Polaris, and whatever civilian airliners have been contracted out.
Why are we wrapping things up today, and not on sat, Sunday?
(Unless it is at the US’s request as they prepare to end operations & depart Tuesday, and need the runway & taxi ways for their own aircraft. That I can understand and makes sense, as there is only one runway. They do have 6000+ military on the ground after all.)
They want legitimacy. Having the US embassy there gives them that’s.Cheeky .... "Taliban asks U.S. to retain embassy in Kabul, guarantees security" (JPN media)