An F-16 Fighting Falcon flies over rugged landscape during a mission Nov. 11, 2011. F-16s from the 121st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and F-15s from the 335th EFS dropped more than 9,000 lbs of munitions through severe weather on enemy forces trying to overrun a combat outpost in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2011. Their efforts helped kill 70 insurgents and resulted in zero coalition casualties. U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Brandon Cyr)
Afghanistan: Female Airborne `Dude' Helps Grunts on the Ground -- Time
It's hard for most Americans to realize, as we noted in our cover story this week, that there is a major war involving U.S. troops underway in Afghanistan. It's a splotchy kind of war, with no well-defined front. That makes it a difficult war to cover. Sometimes we have to rely on the folks wearing military uniforms to give us a peek. Here's an account from a Taliban effort last week to overrun a U.S. combat outpost in Paktia province (granted, we need to take these with a grain of salt – we tend not to get them when U.S. forces screw up – but such reports have tended to be pretty credible in my experience):
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My Comment: The full story on this engagement can be read here.
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