Another IDF (rocket) attack last night. At least two rockets impacted Bagram, a good bit south of us, around 8PM last night. The usual alarms, sirens, and shelter-in-place announcements. By my count, that’s three attacks this week.
But everything needs to be kept in perspective. I got word from a friend in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday. He wrote about the mile-wide (or so it seemed to him) funnel cloud cutting a swath through his town. Homes destroyed and lives and families shattered, and hundreds dead throughout the region, including a couple dozen in the county where Birmingham sits. By contrast, we had a couple troops sustain minor injuries and a few aircraft took shrapnel damage. Nothing like the devastation back home.
Who was crazy enough to get close enough for this photo?
And meanwhile, there seems to be nothing on the news except stories related to the SEALs taking out OBL. Isn’t there anything else happening in the world? Didn’t the southern states get massively whacked by a string of tornadoes? But the big three networks, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN can’t talk about anything but the raid on Heeeeeyyyyy Abbott-abad.
Obama is on the tube now (guess we’re getting replays on Friday night’s evening newscast), down at Fort Campbell, welcoming the 101st Airborne as they come home … from BAF, by the way. They just finished a RIP/ToA (Relief in Place/Transfer of Authority) with the 1st Cavalry Division here.
Tonight is the third incarnation of the Area 82 Herf. Hope those insurgent humps lay off the rockets tonight.
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