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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
+1 I'm with you.
Consider one more add-on? Guessing a lot of permits, tho.
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There's a book 'not a good day to die' about battle of shah-i-kot valley. On the way to setting up the assault the powers that be mistook the rag tag 200+ person allied afghan army convoy for bad guys and the ac130 went to town on them for a good while, I think until the plane got low on fuel. From all the hoopla I've read I'd have thought they'd all be dead with a bullet every square inch but they seemed to come off with minor casualties, they fixed up the trucks and kept going.
Not sure its true or not but the account really surprised me. Maybe just because Afghanistan is covered in granite boulders to hide behind.
Oh and man was that book unkind to the seals and navy admirals, so maybe its all just a giant grudge fest.