[Chris]

Originally Posted by Para

The bearded one's comments started following Panjawai/Operation Medusa when we killed in excess of 1000 Taliban in the span of a week, broke the Taliban's back and plans to retake Kandahar, and saved NATO from a complete failure that would lost Southern Afghanistan to the Taliban. I will have to write the complete story for you all at some point when I have time.

The shaving incident was "punaitive in nature" by a command that didn't much care for relaxed grooming standards. It was even to the point that they wanted to implement a high n' tight policy for the Group. As to the effects of shaving our beards, the following Shura meeting, my team and I were asked to leave by the District Chief. We have not been back since. Do people care? Nope, I think they would rather see us out of this country as our ROE's differ greatly from ISAF (I Suck At Fighting)'s and they feel we are killing too many enemy. Not that it bothers us much, it is way past time for us to leave. Send us someplace where there needs some real fightin' and killin', Somolia, Sudan, etc...

Would very much like to hear that story sometime, Para.