Mar 10 2008
Michael Yon’s Guitar Heroes
Michael Yon is one of my favorite war bloggers. His latest online piece is called Guitar Heroes and tells the story of Army OH-58D Kiowa helicopters and Predator UAVs taking out a mess of al Qaeda terrs in Iraq. The bad guys were too busy planting a roadside bomb to kill our guys to notice that someone had just hit their Smite button. (For the record, I’m all for hitting the Smite button a little more frequently with these guys.)
A Predator in the area (being remotely piloted from the United States, no less) cued the two Kiowas and laser-designated the target. The Kiowas responded with Hellfire missiles, high-explosive and flechette rockets, and a pilot hanging out the side firing his M-4. The final tally was five terrorists dead, one who crawled away and may may have survived, and probably dozens of civilians and military who weren’t killed by a roadside bomb.
Read Yon’s whole piece - he tells it much better than I can.
