Loose Lips Sink Ships
“Your bomb missed us,” one would say, recalled members of Team 555.
Five hundred meters to the north, would come the answer. Or 1,000 meters to the south. The combat controller would immediately recalculate the coordinates and pass them to the nearest aircraft, which could restrike the target within minutes. Team 555 members said that in a week, they killed many Taliban commanders this way and destroyed much of their communications network.
Meanwhile, all these puffy propaganda stories are attempts to deflect and counter the growing pretend dissent in US media concerning the civilian slaughter in Afghanistan. Of course, it’s now acceptable to run these because most of the slaughter would appear to be complete by now.