Category Archives: Troops

Incredibly, more than three months after at least one American combat soldier died unnecessarily and two months after the issue was first raised on the Net, wounded American troops in Afghanistan still are waiting longer than necessary for Medevac helicopters to arrive.

Because the Medevacs wear red crosses and, therefore, under Army policy cannot carry defensive guns. So the medical birds have to wait for gunships to escort them and, sometimes, the gunships are busy.

Would seem simple enough. Remove the red crosses, which only aggravate the Muslim enemy (not to mention the Muslim allies), and mount defensive guns and gunners.

Too hard for the modern Army to grasp, apparently. (Similar to their refusal to stop driving Humvees on mined roads in Iraq.) Even though, as war correspondent Michael Yon notes, our medics are not adorned with red crosses (as they were in World War II) and they do carry rifles.

Obozo, of course, could have already solved the Medevac problem with a phone call. But it seems he’s too busy playing golf, or else following Mooch and the children around for ice cream and so forth on their latest taxpayer-paid vacation. What a commander-in-chief, right? Yeah.