We continue to struggle. We lost one of our civil-military affairs guys to day, but that may have been natural selection at work. He left with a large group to go out and pay claims. The group stopped at a FOB, and the CA guy took off with a small group of soldiers, leaving the claims paying staff behind. He went to a small town, where he was warmly greeted. This should have been suspicious because previous reception had been cool. Anyway, they showed him a buiding he could use for his operations. He and his soldiers entered the buiding, and a bomb exploded.
He and his soldiers will be dead for at least 24 hours. They will be on a sandbag filling detail until they are reborn. (Do born again Christians have two belly buttons?) I suspect that the next time he wants to do something stupid, the soldiers the went through sandbag detail will not be too shy to voice concerns.
So, still a lot of amber and red. I think we turned a green town amber, so we're going backward. My sense of things is that they are starting to turn around, and we should start seeing some successes. We'll see.
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