Posted on 09/15/2012 7:09:15 PM PDT by kristinn
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release
KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15, 2012 – International Security Assistance Force officials are providing additional details about the Sept. 14 attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan’s Helmand province in which two coalition service members were killed when insurgents attacked the base’s airfield.
Because it is still early in the investigation of this attack, information is subject to change as new details become available, officials said.
The attack commenced just after 10 p.m., officials said, when approximately 15 insurgents executed a well-coordinated attack against the airfield on Camp Bastion. The insurgents, organized into three teams, penetrated at one point of the base’s perimeter fence, officials said.
The insurgents appeared to be well-equipped, trained and rehearsed, officials said. Dressed in U.S. Army uniforms and armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and suicide vests, the insurgents attacked coalition fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft parked on the flight line, aircraft hangars and other buildings, officials said.
Six coalition AV-8B Harrier jets were destroyed and two were significantly damaged, said officials, noting three coalition refueling stations were destroyed. Six soft-skin aircraft hangars were damaged to some degree.
Coalition forces engaged the insurgents, killing 14 and wounding one who was taken into custody, officials said.
In addition to the two coalition service members that were killed, nine coalition personnel -- eight military and one civilian contractor -- were wounded in the attack, officials said. None of their injuries are considered life-threatening.
You might enjoy this little nugget...... it is posted above my desk.
“Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Arian Brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Arian smiles, and it weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitath drear:”A fool lies here who tried to Hustle the East.”
Rudyard Kipling
“The Naulahka”
It probably was from there than.
Looks like 14 of 15 ARE dead meat, but that’s cold comfort if they did the amount of damage they seem to have done.
Reporting and the fog of war being what they are, initial details are often faulty. No matter what subterfuge was used, I’m willing to let my contempt for the enemy coexist with a healthy respect for his capabilities and resourcefulness.
Clint Eastwood is a favorite actor of mine, particularly after the convention speech, but judging military events based on Hollywood films is less helpful than speculating on enemy capabilities and methods, IMHO.
Are you saying the AK-47 doesn't have a distinctive sound and that it isn't carried by our enemies?
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