On The Ground Action Report From Afghanistan

The sun rises as seen from a a U.S. Army helicopter flying over the Kunar River October 21, 2008 near Asadabad in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. American military units there are engaged in some of the fiercest fighting with the Taliban in the country. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images AsiaPac)

Taliban Attacks California Guard Soldiers In Eastern Afghanistan -- L.A. Times

Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates - A California Army National Guard group was attacked Saturday by a "complex double ambush" from Taliban fighters along a treacherous mountain road in eastern Afghanistan while the unit was returning from helping farmers in isolated villages, the Army reported today.

The Californians' slow-moving six-vehicle convoy was attacked by two groups of Taliban militants firing medium machine guns and AK-47s. Most of the vehicles were hit and one was slightly disabled with a flattened tire and a bullet hole in the windshield, the Army said.

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My Comment: The sentence that caught my eye was the following ....

Spc. Kathy Tanson, the only woman among the soldiers, raked one of the ambush sites with fire from a 50-caliber machine gun mounted atop one of the U.S. vehicles.

When 9/11 happened, Spc. Kathy Tanson was a little girl of 11.

Sighhh .....

This is becoming a very long war.