Tag Archives: Michael Yon

Airlift

Posted on February 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Airlift

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The latest from Michael Yon on the oft-ignored Afghanistan campaign.

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C-130J

Posted on February 8, 2010 | Comments Off on C-130J

C130JC-130s now have digital flight decks, and six-bladed composite propellers. At least the C-130Js do. More here in the latest from Michael Yon in Afghanistan.

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Into Thine Hand

Posted on December 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Into Thine Hand

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Freelance war correspondent Michael Yon doesn’t explain the use of this teepee in Afghanistan except to say that it’s a memorial to an American unit’s war dead. MY’s apparently in need of money to continue. He’s still worth it. I’m still sending him some. You should too. (Uh, actually he does explain the teepee. The unit is the 2nd ID, the "Indian Head" division.)

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CH-47’s dust halo

Posted on October 14, 2009 | Comments Off on CH-47’s dust halo

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Freelance war correspondent Michael Yon reports on this interesting visual effect.

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Boots over Afghanistan

Posted on September 25, 2009 | Comments Off on Boots over Afghanistan

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A favorite photo by freelance Afghanistan correspondent Michael Yon: PJs on a casualty run. I’ve been helping support him with a little here and there for several years. You should, too. You know?

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Dem’s “good war” not so good when it’s theirs

Posted on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Dem’s “good war” not so good when it’s theirs

Time for Barry to cut-and-run from Afghanistan? It certainly would fit the rest of his dictator-loving foreign policy. Leaking the latest unhappy command report to the Guardian, of all media, isn’t grounds for confidence. Meanwhile, Michael Yon says there’s already a crippling shortage of helicopters to ferry American troops around the mountains. Accidental? Or the beginning of the end?

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, ol’ one-term Barry is looking more one term everyday.

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Combat in Afghanistan

Posted on July 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Combat in Afghanistan

"The Taliban are very brave, but they are ignorant brutal men who murder locals who do not support them, and brave doesn’t stop bullets." —Michael Yon

Sounds like the Viet Cong. Hope they don’t have the Cong’s tenacity. So far they seem not to have. But this "good war," as the Dems used to call it, to distinguish it from their "bad war" in Iraq, has a long way to go. Yon’s piece shows why. Amazes me, though, that the Brit troops have women medics and rifles. These women aren’t inadvertently in combat. They are in it on purpose. Revolutionary.

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