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
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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