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vitointn
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Wed Jan-05-05 03:22 PM
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More specifically, the request was for <b>Bradleys</b> and use of AC-130s.
The narrow streets of Mog would have meant easy mobility kills on an M-1.
I was at the Mog airport with 86th CSH until Jun 93 and also knew a couple of the killed.
One point that doesn't get alot of press was that the Armor mission was relegated to the Pakistanis (armored cars along the lines of the LAV-25). Seems they didn't want to leave the base to help with the extraction once word got out how hairy it was getting downtown. Probably still afraid from the 25 they lost a few months earlier.
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