Wednesday, September 30, 2009

VIOLENT COMBAT IN IRAQ. GRISLY VIDEO


Video captures the horrors of war in Iraq. Music by Gloria Them.

TURN UP YOUR SOUND

WATCH VIDEO HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Ed8WrcR_NnI&hl=en&fs=1

CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

FABULOUS VIDEO OF AIR FORCE NATIONAL GUARD MEDEVAC TEAM FLYING MISSION OVER AFGHANISTAN


I edited this final footage/montage from my deployment to Afghanistan in 2009 of Air Force/Air National Guard Combat Rescue/Medevac operations in the Helmand Valley area. I wasn't able to arrange for a RED this time around, but have been able to record some decent HD footage on a new Sony Handycam. This was a very sobering deployment and probably my last in an "operational" capacity as I move on with my military career.

TURN UP YOUR SOUND

WATCH VIDEO HERE

http://www.youtube.com/v/rWaehyJb0pg&hl=en&fs=1

CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

MEDIA MATTERS REPORTS ON HOW FOX NEWS GIVES MORE ATTENTION TO GEN. McCHRYSTAL OVER GEN. SHINSEK'S REQUEST FOR TROOPS



According to searches of the Nexis database, Fox News has reported on Gen. Stanley McChrystal's recommendation to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan on 17 programs in the week since it was reported by The Washington Post, but mentioned Gen. Eric Shinseki's February 2003 recommendation that that "several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed to successfully occupy Iraq on only six programs available in Nexis in the three and a half months between his testimony to Congress and his retirement as Army chief of staff. Moreover, Fox News personalities have repeatedly criticized President Obama for not yet acting on McChrystal's advice but almost entirely avoided criticizing the Bush administration for not heeding Shinseki's 2003 recommendation.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909290047?lid=1067363&rid=35327897