Tag: Afghanistan

  • Why The Taliban Suck At Shooting

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    Data showed that while the Taliban can be canny and brave in combat their rifle fire is often remarkably ineffective. The factors at play: Limited knowledge of marksmanship fundamentals A frequent reliance on automatic fire from assault rifles The poor condition of many of those rifles Old and mismatched ammunition that is also in poor…

  • U.S. Marine Corp. Tattoos in Afghanistan

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    Check out the whole set – HERE Quite a few of the pictures show Marines who have tattoos all down their arms.    Judging by the Marine Corps. tattoo policy, June 1, 2010 is the cuttoff in order to be grandfathered in, because the most recent version of the policy strictly prohibits “sleeve” tattoos. I wonder…

  • War Through an iPhone Camera Lens

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    Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan. Check…

  • Photos from Afghanistan (March 2010)

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    A U.S. Army soldier with the 293D Military Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion, looks through the scope of his rifle from the top of an abandoned grain elevator building during patrol on the outskirts of the town of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan March 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) Lots more amazing photographs at The Boston Globe…

  • Newsweek – Failure of the Afghan National Police

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    Most of the recruits are rural villagers who have never been inside a classroom. Roughly 15 percent test positive for drugs, primarily hashish. Few know how to use a toothbrush or drive, and nearly 90 percent are illiterate. Since January 2007, upwards of 2,000 police have been killed in action—more than twice the figure for…

  • Eric Cartman Signs For 500 AK-47s on Southpark

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    Coming up on a new episode of Southpark on March 17, 2010:   This is in reference to an investigation into a Blackwater employee, who in September of 2008 allegedly withdrew hundreds of AK-47s from an Armory in Afghanistan named “Bunker 22” and signed for them under the name “Eric Cartman”. (Source)