rant on ///// it wasn't headline news anywhere. WTF?
so, did you hear about the 22 navy seals that got killed in Afghanistan over the weekend? I did not hear about it until the guy that won the Nascar race said, "I ain't nobody. I just drive race cars. The real heroes are the guys who died in Afghanistan yesterday".
so, I thought, "wtf is he talking about" and I went upstairs and googled it. well, well well it doesn't really come up anywhere except Fox News and it's not the headline story. our government says it was a crash. the Taliban says they shot it down.
story goes like this: army rangers were in a fire fight with Taliban, they radio for help, somebody loads up 22 navy seals and 16 other people on a Chinook helicopter (which goes about 18mph) and flies them over to help real slow like in front of the Taliban and they shoot it down with a freaking RPG. (or it crashed, coincidentally right where the fire fight was --- BS!).
wifey and I just got done watching that HBO mini-series, The Pacific and I'm no damn military strategist, but before you fly a slow helicopter in front of the enemy with back-up aboard, don't you lay down some cover fire??? they had mortars 70 years ago they could hone in with a compass and a protractor. For Christ's sake, we could have probably read off some coordinates on a GPS and sent a rocket from a battleship in the Red Sea 700 miles away and took them out. weren't they showing us video from the Gulf War (1991 - 20 years ago) where we were launching scud missiles 500-1000 miles and hitting intended targets in a 40x40 concrete building???
what am I missing here?
rant off ///////
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