...good job of discussing the good and bad points of the fire support they had available during Operation Anaconda. The one thing that troubled me was that neither seemed to be bothered by the fact that they had no artillery support available because no artillery units were allowed to deploy with them to Afghanistan. I find that appalling.

I'm an old airborne- and ranger-qualified infantryman. As you probably know, Infantrymen don't have much respect for folks who aren't infantrymen. However, I learned one very important thing from two years of combat as a rifle platoon leader and rifle company commander in Vietnam--never go into combat without artillery support and lots of it. So I always had a healthy respect for Artillerymen because I could rely on them to put the balls where I wanted...

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