Afghanistan Is Still Very Dangerous For Americans Even Though Their Leaders Are Claiming That 'Combat Operations' Have Ended

U.S. and Czech soldiers patrol north of Bagram Airfield on Oct. 20 looking for signs of Taliban fighters. (Photo by Dan Lamothe/ The Washington Post)

Washington Post: In Afghanistan, a series of attacks on Americans during ‘non-combat’ operations

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – When Krissie K. Davis deployed to Afghanistan this spring with the U.S. military, she was excited about her mission and told her family she’d be safe. A 54-year-old grandmother and civilian employee with the Air Force, she worked at sprawling Bagram Airfield preparing equipment for disposal as part of the base’s possible closure. She talked to her family virtually every day from 7,500 miles away.

In an instant, however, that changed. While driving on base early June 8, Davis was hit with a Taliban rocket. Her remains arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware within days, treated with the same solemnity and respect offered to active-duty service members killed in combat, said her daughter, Angela Langley Mitchell.

“I don’t think she really knew what she was getting into,” said Mitchell, of Lincoln, Ala. “She said she was never anywhere near where the missiles were being shot into.”

WNU Editor: The White House and Pentagon may claim that U.S. forces are no longer in a combat role in Afghanistan .... the reality on the ground (as the above Washington Post story reveals) is very different. On a side note ... a friend of mine who works for a Canadian NGO returned last week from Kandahar .... he tells me that he is not going to back .... the war has returned with a vengeance and security is essentially non-existent.