The U.S. Suffered Its Worst Airpower Loss Since Vietnam Last Week

[longknife]

and No One Really Noticed
-- The Atlantic

by War News Updates Editor @ longwarjournal.org gives us the following:

The Taliban attack on an air base in southern Afghanistan on Friday drew coverage for the way the insurgents cloaked themselves in U.S. army uniforms to gain a tactical advantage, but few have taken note of the historical proportions of the damage inflicted. John Gresham, at the Defense Media Network, has published a detailed account of the attack on Camp Bastion, in which two Marines were killed, six U.S. Marine Corps jet fighters were destroyed, and two more "significantly" damaged. Those facts were all carried in most reports, but if that just sounds like a typical damage report from a decade-long war, you're wrong. Gresham explains the devastating damage done to VMA-211, the name of the Marine Corps attack squadron that was most affected last week, noting that it is "arguably the worst day in [U.S. Marine Corps] aviation history since the Tet Offensive of 1968." Or you could go back even further. "The last time VMA-211 was combat ineffective was in December 1941, when the squadron was wiped out during the 13-day defense of Wake Island against the Japanese."

My Comment: If you are a regular reader of this blog .... you would have been informed. But it is true .... the U.S. main stream media is AWOL on this (and many other) Afghan stories. hmmmm .... and they wonder why the American public does not trust them.

It was a well-planned attack, clearly with a lot of “insider” intelligence as to where things were located. There is much more on this at The Long War Journal

 

[Truthmatters]

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[Warrior102]

Thanks for sharing - I didn't know this.

My high school buddy was the former CO of that squadron. He retired several years ago - but was one of the first squadrons in Iraq waaaaaaaay back when. Right after 9/11