September 11, 2011 Seven-Minute War in Afghanistan
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“From a journalist and eye-witnesses on 10th of September of this month, a suicide bomber targeted an American military COP in Sayed Abad district, Wardak province by detonating 10,000lb of explosives packed in along vehicle. The explosives went off with huge explosions, sending firewood and shocks waves throughout the American compound and destroying part of the outpost called Lucifer. This was in addition to causing them life casualties of hundreds of troops and other material lost”.
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About the Book
I have been involved in these wars ever since 2005. My first overseas contract was in Iraq. I started working for Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) November 5, 2005 in Balad, Iraq. I started out as lead mechanic and soon moved up to a supervisor. We worked on a lot of M915 that the army had, and KBR had Mercedes and Volvos that were not up armor. Many drivers had been killed in these trucks with no protection. After putting up KBR three years, I got a chance to jump on board with Dyncorp. Navistar had just come out with MRAP vehicle that was supposed to take the place of the Humvee. After going through their training in West Point, Mississippi, and Red River-u in New Boston, Texas, I was sent to Mosul, Iraq, and taught the opnet class on the MRAP vehicle.
Mosul was considered one of the hot spots in northern Iraq, and of all the places I have been in Iraq, Mosul was the best. After spending a year in Mosul, I took off eighteen months and started working for Navistar/Defense. I was sent to Afghanistan as an FRS, assigned to the Jordanian army. I was told that I would have interpreters and transportation when I got in country. Afghanistan was nothing like Iraq. The leadership wasn’t there, and there was no help for the FSRs that were on ground in Shank, no interpreters and no transportation.
About the Author
Born in Mendota, California on August 4, 1961 by 1962, Bill and his family had moved back to East Texas and that’s where he spent the rest of his childhood. As he got older the more he wanted to travel, see the country and maybe later on the world. Bill spent 5 years working overseas and during these 5 years he worked in Iraq and in Afghanistan, now he was finishing up his 5th and final year. He has seen enough. Millions of US dollars are being spent (wasted) on the construction sites all over Afghanistan and for what reason he really didn’t know why. During the draw down of Iraq the military could have moved most everything to Afghanistan but didn’t. A lot of it was left behind, some one hundred thirty two million dollars was left behind in asset. We are supposed to be pulling out of Afghanistan in 2014, what are we going to leaving behind here?