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Waving in the Close Support


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On the way to work, I heard a National Public Radio report about the training of the Afghan army. They described an aggressive attack made by the Afghan army on some enemy troops.

They had an American advisor with them, who controlled the American attack helicopters. This (young sounding) Lieutenant Colonel incidently mentioned that his radio had stopped working, so he stayed near the front lines of the battle--waving at the attack helicopters to indicate which troops were friendlies! He said something about being confident the helicopters would see him and not shoot him.

Now there is a "can do" spirit which is hard to computer simulate.

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