Military regs costing American lives in Afghanistan. Worth the read.

[powderman]

It is bad enough that the Obama administration has imposed deadly rules of engagement to reflect its leftist worldview. The U.S. Army has been racking up its own body count due to nothing more than bureaucratic intransigence.

A new article in Soldier of Fortune magazine, (yes, that Soldier of Fortune, still kicking after 35 years), by Dalton Fury, former Delta Force Commander and best-selling author of Kill Bin Laden, has explained the problem. Army regulations require that medevac helicopters follow the Geneva Convention, which specifies that they must be unarmed and display prominent Red Cross markings. Furthermore, Army regulation forbids medevac choppers from entering a combat zone without armed helicopter escort. If armed escort is not immediately available, medevac helicopters remain grounded, regardless the emergency. Once they do go in, they become a conspicuous target for enemy forces, most of whom have never read the Geneva Convention, and would laugh it out of existence if they had.


Much more here: http://bigpeace.com/jmsimpson/2012/0...n-afghanistan/ 

[Val]

The lunatic fringe left wingers just don't understand that the culturally retarded (middle ages?) Muslims, just do not have a grasp of freedom and human rights. One of the founding precepts of their religion is to go off and conquer other lands and convert the people to Islam or kill them. That's what the are still doing today. Many of the extreme fundamentalist Muslims have sub-human values.

[powderman]

The lunatic fringe left wingers just don't understand that the culturally retarded (middle ages?) Muslims, just do not have a grasp of freedom and human rights. One of the founding precepts of their religion is to go off and conquer other lands and convert the people to Islam or kill them. That's what the are still doing today. Many of the extreme fundamentalist Muslims have sub-human values.

 
VAL. Very true. POWDERMAN. 

[BUGEYE]

There should be a blackhawk assigned to each medevac helo and used for nothing else.