Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters fly over a C-130 Hercules at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, as it prepares for a mission Sept. 24. (U.S. Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Joshua T. Jasper)From Politics Daily:
OVER FARAH PROVINCE, Western Afghanistan -- At an unseen point in the dark, Lt. Col. Wil Baulkmon slams down the flaps and pitches up the nose of his lumbering C-130 airlift plane. On the sharply canted cargo bay floor behind him, six tons of cargo strains against its web straps toward the open ramp and the roaring emptiness outside. "Come a little to the right ... a bit more," the navigator says crisply on the intercom. "OK, on course and looking good.''
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My Comment: A detailed story on U.S. air resupply in Afghanistan. Put it this way .... if it was not for these guys (and gals), the war in Afghanistan will be far more difficult and definitely more bloodier.
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