Not just busted in Bagram: Also, you tactical types can get towed in Kandahar!
As a follow-up item to yesterday’s post about the blown-up captain getting a ticket in Bagram for not wearing a reflector belt, a congressional staffer passes along this photo he took at the big base at Kandahar air field in 2009. Joseph Heller wrote in Catch-22 that it is the nature of military organizations that ...
As a follow-up item to yesterday's post about the blown-up captain getting a ticket in Bagram for not wearing a reflector belt, a congressional staffer passes along this photo he took at the big base at Kandahar air field in 2009.
As a follow-up item to yesterday’s post about the blown-up captain getting a ticket in Bagram for not wearing a reflector belt, a congressional staffer passes along this photo he took at the big base at Kandahar air field in 2009.
Joseph Heller wrote in Catch-22 that it is the nature of military organizations that staffs established to support line units eventually begin thinking that the line units work for them — and treating line soldiers like it.
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