This Is Unsustainable
Chris Kromm at Facing South reports that: “In five weeks, the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry of the 82nd Airborne, based at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, has lost 18 soldiers in Iraq.”
That is 6% of the unit killed in just over a month. They are in Anbar province and the fighting has never let up. Chris highlights some those killed and there are too many Sergeants and Staff Sergeants dying for the unit to hang together. It takes years to replace a mid-level NCO and this is a reconnaissance unit in an airborne division which is even more training. Half of these guys died in a car bombing of their base.
If we can’t protect our troops at their bases, how can’t we expect to protect the Iraqis?
