Never Forget 09-10-16 The Daily Signal
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Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson
Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan.
KYIV, Ukraine—My brother Drew, a former Air Force captain, told me one of the worst stories I’ve yet to hear from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was riding in a convoy from Bagram Air Base to Kabul during a deployment to Afghanistan in August 2010.
This particularly dangerous stretch of road was known as “suicide alley” due to the frequency of Taliban improvised explosive device attacks. Most of the IEDs the Taliban used in this area were physically connected to detonators by a thin copper “piano wire,” which made them immune to jamming.
These hard-wired IEDs required precision from the attacker to time the explosion with passing vehicles. So the best defense was to drive fast and not stop—no matter what.
Read More at the Daily Signal
Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson
Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan.
KYIV, Ukraine—My brother Drew, a former Air Force captain, told me one of the worst stories I’ve yet to hear from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was riding in a convoy from Bagram Air Base to Kabul during a deployment to Afghanistan in August 2010.
This particularly dangerous stretch of road was known as “suicide alley” due to the frequency of Taliban improvised explosive device attacks. Most of the IEDs the Taliban used in this area were physically connected to detonators by a thin copper “piano wire,” which made them immune to jamming.
These hard-wired IEDs required precision from the attacker to time the explosion with passing vehicles. So the best defense was to drive fast and not stop—no matter what.
Read More at the Daily Signal
We Must Never Forget....
From our friend and blogger RushBabe:
"On that day, worldwide Radical Islam escalated the ongoing war on the United States of America (and the rest of Western civilization), the nation that has been a beacon of hope and prosperity for over 250 years. For the past eight years, we have ignored that war, and turned our backs on Christians and Jews everywhere who have been murdered in the streets of Paris and Jerusalem, and even in their beds. And the current administration undermines the USA, freeing dozens of terrorists from Guantanamo to return to the jihad they wage against us.
We must never forget those who perished on September 11, 2001, in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. May their lives not have been in vain.
Long Live The United States of America!
And a big Thank You to Michael Ramirez, whose work honors them, and us."
We must never forget those who perished on September 11, 2001, in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. May their lives not have been in vain.
Long Live The United States of America!
And a big Thank You to Michael Ramirez, whose work honors them, and us."
An Evening with Michael
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