FOB Salerno

[Combat Diver]

As I was stuck in my bunker wondering whats going on today, I owe several cases today for these fine young soldiers from BDOC right next to my office.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38533837...d_central_asia

CD
FOB Salerno

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Combat Diver

As I was stuck in my bunker wondering whats going on today, I owe several cases today for these fine young soldiers from BDOC right next to my office.

CD
FOB Salerno

Stay Safe..

[incarcerated]

I had been wondering about what the dead insurgent was wearing in the MSNBC piece photo…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082801152.html

Taliban fighters, some disguised as American soldiers, attack two U.S. bases

By Joshua Partlow and Javed HamdardWashington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, August 28, 2010; 7:58 AM
KABUL - Insurgents disguised as American soldiers attacked two U.S. bases in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday morning and managed to breach the perimeter of one of them before being repelled, according to NATO and Afghan officials.
The assault began at about 4 a.m., when dozens of Taliban fighters, some wearing U.S. military uniforms, launched simultaneous attacks on Forward Operating Base Salerno, in Khost province, and nearby Forward Operating Base Chapman, where a suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees in December.
They fired mortars or rockets, along with grenades and guns, and two insurgents entered FOB Salerno by cutting a hole in a fence, NATO officials said. No Afghan or U.S. troops died in the assault, but four NATO troops and an Afghan policeman were wounded, and a 12-year-old Afghan boy was killed, according to Gen. Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, the police chief in Khost.
The response to the attack was swift and deadly. Afghan security forces, along with U.S. troops, killed about 15 insurgents at FOB Salerno and six more at FOB Chapman, while three others were killed by an airstrike after they were spotted fleeing the scene of the attacks, NATO said….
Ishaqzai, the police chief, said 48 insurgents took part in the assault on the two Khost bases, including several armed with suicide vests. NATO said it recovered a car bomb, seven suicide vests, two recoilless rifles and other unexploded munitions....

More here:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...oops_bea_1.php

http://www.daylife.com/photo/09G94W7a6RdVK?q=khost

http://www.daylife.com/photo/0go38OF76g9DQ?q=khost

http://www.daylife.com/photo/079L4Vv...?q=Afghanistan



MSNBC photo caption:
An Afghan security personnel walks past the body of an insurgent attacker in Khost province August 28, 2010.

[The Reaper]

This has been an unsuccessful enemy tactic since at least 19 May 2010, when they attacked Bagram AB in the same way, with the same TTPs.

It kills bad guys and makes headlines, but has accomplished little else so far.

TR