Get them out of Afghanistan. NOW!

October 19, 2015

By Reuters

An American F-16 aircraft (click here) was hit by small arms fire while conducting a patrol in Afghanistan last week, U.S. military officials said on Monday.

The jet was flying a routine combat air patrol in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan on Oct. 13 when it was hit by small arms fire, a U.S. military official said.

The fire hit one of the aircraft's stabilizers and damaged one of the munitions it was carrying, said a second official, Captain Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the Department of Defense.

"As a precautionary measure it jettisoned two of its fuel tanks (and) three of its munitions before safely returning to the base," Davis said....

It would be interesting to realize what happened on the ground when the fuel tanks hit and whether or not the munitions exploded along with jettisoned fuel or was it gathered up by the Taliban and/or Afghan children.

Small arms fire at jets that lose their fuel tanks and jettison their munitions is probably a really interesting strategy. Just like robbing banks to fund the wars.

We are such an obliging country. We do all sorts of predictably stupid things that creates and propagates the furtherance of war wherever we find it.

Don't get me wrong, I think the safety of the pilot comes first. The practices of losing military equipment and supplies should come before the death of a pilot. But, it is the idea war is preferred is what I believe a very bad habit of the USA military.

In most of my social circles it would be coined as "shooting yourself in the foot."

Anyone find out if the Iranians got that drone back in the air? It is such a nice piece of machinery I thought maybe.