For those who served - Afghanistan veteran roll call

don't know why we ever got rid of the DCUs.

oh and TYFYS

Appreciate you sir.

Not a veteran but the Afghan War and Chernobyl were the bullets in the head of the USSR

TYFYS

Thank you for your service. Too bad it was a misadventure in the service of the military industrial complex.

2003 - Kandahar airbase mostly but also spent time at a FOB / building up a future Afghan military outpost. Heavy equipment operator.

Absolute sincerity to you and everyone else who served…

Thank you for your service!

Medic.

2006 & 2007

FOB Orgun-e, Tillman, Shkin and Bermel

I know this is about Afghanistan and I in no way want to detract from the honor we should feel for the service you veterans did in that country, in and out of combat. Sadly, I see a hauntingly terrible and familiar story. I served in combat for one year in the infantry in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. We began withdrawing combat units at that time and by 1972, there were no US Army or USMC maneuver battalions left in country. The NVA launched a major regular army offensive in 1972 and it was totally crushed by a combination of South Vietnamese Army fighting bravery and, most importantly, American air power devasting NVA armor and infantry units. It took North Vietnam two years to regroup and in 1975 they relaunched their regular army attacks on the South which folded like a house of cards because there was no American air support. I see now, 50 years later, the same thing in Afghanistan.