August 2009 - Sgt. Stryker

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  • More and More Action in Afghanistan

    Sgt Stryker here with news of more and more engagements (and victories – big victories) in Afghanistan. As I’ve said, it’s gonna take time, but things are moving forward. In an operation July 26, 2009, a joint Afghan and coalition force searched a compound in Khost province believed to be frequented by an insurgent known [...]
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  • Friendly Fire All Around

    No one likes when it happens, least of all me, but friendly fire sometimes happens. And not just from the US military. For example, Several Afghan national police were wounded when two AH-64 Apache helicopters responded to small arms fire from insurgents in the early morning hours in Ghazni province on August 8, 2009. [...]
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  • IEDs Continue to be a Problem

    Sgt. Stryker here with a serious topic – IED – improvised explosive devices. These can be some of the meanest weapons in the enemy’s arsenal. Made from anything (and everything), they’re easily disguised so that coalition troops in Afghanistan (and the country on the other side of Iran) still have problems with them. This cowardly [...]
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  • Success in Iraq = Hope in Afghanistan

    While US officials are starting to call for even more troops to head to Afghanistan, you can bet there’s a lot of smart military people looking at all the successes in Iraq and planning to implement some of the same measures in Afghanistan. If you step back and look at the big picture, it really [...]
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  • RIP Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher

    Well, they found him. Finally. It’s done, though. Remains found last month in Iraq’s Anbar province are those of Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. If you remember, he was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet on January 17, 1991. His fate (until now) had been uncertain. “Our thoughts and prayers [...]
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  • Afghanistan Battles Continue

    Hey, Sgt. Stryker here. Hope I haven’t run some of you off with my sometimes harsh words. You have to know where I’m coming from. I don’t want to talk about it too much at the moment. There’s too much else to talk about. Take August 5, 2009 in Afghanistan. International security forces killed five [...]
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