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"WASHINGTON -- In the chaos of an early morning assault on a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 carbine quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The machine gun he grabbed after tossing the rifle aside didn't work either.

When the battle in the small village of Wanat ended, nine U.S. soldiers lay dead and 27 more were wounded. A detailed study of the attack by a military historian found that weapons failed repeatedly at a "critical moment" during the firefight on July 13, 2008, putting the outnumbered American troops at risk of being overrun by nearly 200 insurgents."

Read the whole sickening story:

nursinglink.monster.com/news/articles/9008-weapons-failed-us-troops-during-afghan-firefight

All you conservatives write your congresspeople and demand that they reinforce our troops and reoutfit them with quality weapons, ammunition, body armor, armored vehicles and more medical staff at the front lines. Not just medics and corpsmen but doctors, nurses and mobile surgical units.

Also ask them to pressure the military to move these stupid outposts from narrow valleys to the highest points around. Even a stupid recruit knows he who holds the high ground controls the area, not vice versa. To H*ll with making friendlies of these village locals!

This outpost was located at the narrow neck of a valley between 2 high and steep mountains.

Duh!?! 8 years of fighting there and someone did this. And many of you now want Obama to send in more troops to be placed in imminent danger.

Please note this report is about rearming our troops, no concern about putting them where their being assaulted is less. Duh?!?

You're talking to a Marine here, Mister! I learned to walk the walk before I talked the talk. I know all about crappy tours and crappy weapons. The point of my post is for the hard core "conservatives" who talk the talk to walk the walk. Put the pressure on their elected reps like I clearly said and pressure them to outfit the troops that I cherish and feel great EMPATHY for. And I ate the same C-rats you did before the MREs. Packed heaveir weapons and ammo before what we issue now.

Tell me where I disrespected any of our troops. I fault the politicans and the high rank fools who put our troops in a bottleneck valley.

Go have a drink. It's more than our troops in Islam can do.

The first MREs were horrible. They used us to experiment with them as they phased out the old C-rats. They were so bad we referred to them as "Meals Refused by Ethiopians". I mean they were truly bad. I used to swipe old C-rats for field ops when I knew were going out because the MRes were so lousy. I loved the old C-rat boned chicken dinners. I still have a handful of the old P-38 can openers you got with them. And the dates on the C-rats were from the Korean War and I am not exaggerating!

They had 2 cigarettes, a piece of chocolate and another real dessert like pound cake. As old as they were (this was in the late 60's) those C-rats were good. The ham and lima beans got you moved to the rear of a unit moving out in the field. Guess why?

Back to now - this really burns me up about this weaponry. I think we should buy a boatload of AK-47s, Russian made only. The rounds are more lethal and those guns DO NOT JAM in most conditions.

Thanks to you and your son for your service to our country. It is appreciated. Sincerely.

Semper Fi!

You mean some fool was swiping 2 of those stale cigarettes? Man you are no doubt right about the count but not anything with beans. Tasted good but nobody other than you thought much of the after effects. Ya know what I mean, Vern? I love my P-38s. The ones they sell at these "surplus" places are junk. Mine say "Malloy" I think. They are pretty rubbed down after all these years.