HossHarris Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2021/04/27/decade-later-families-of-9-advisers-killed-afghanistan-are-still-waiting-truth.html/amp 10 years ago today. a nickel for Klepto, Bruiser, and the others. watch your backs! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrizzell Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Thanks for posting this. A tragic reminder of an event that forever changed nine USAF families. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindsight2020 Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Nylander was my flight SRO in OTS. Soft spoken and a real good dude, and a true believer in the Air Force and our foreign policy writ large (something I'm categorically not, in part due to the circumstances behind his untimely death in that FUBAR so-called nation building effort). Died a hero. Complete waste of human capital, that entire clusterf*ck of a perennial war we got going on over there, while private interests all get rich off the carnage. Indefensible mess that should have been nuked from orbit and left to glaze 5 decades ago. I'm also still disgusted at the potshots of cowardice levied towards these casualties by US senior investigating leadership. RIP Nathan. 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HU&W Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 5 hours ago, hindsight2020 said: Nylander was my flight SRO in OTS. Soft spoken and a real good dude, and a true believer in the Air Force and our foreign policy writ large (something I'm categorically not, in part due to the circumstances behind his untimely death in that FUBAR so-called nation building effort). Died a hero. Complete waste of human capital, that entire clusterf*ck of a perennial war we got going on over there, while private interests all get rich off the carnage. Indefensible mess that should have been nuked from orbit and left to glaze 5 decades ago. I'm also still disgusted at the potshots of cowardice levied towards these casualties by US senior investigating leadership. RIP Nathan. To him. True hero. I also knew him from OTS and had nothing but utmost respect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosuper Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 When I was there the scuttlebutt about this was the Afghan shooter was flying unplanned missions with the C-27's , for what anybody's guess but heroin would be mine and the USAF folks were about to pull the plug on the moonlighting gig. I wonder how much money never made it to Afghanistan and got held up in a tight lipped bank in Dubai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhhello Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Prosuper said: When I was there the scuttlebutt about this was the Afghan shooter was flying unplanned missions with the C-27's , for what anybody's guess but heroin would be mine and the USAF folks were about to pull the plug on the moonlighting gig. I wonder how much money never made it to Afghanistan and got held up in a tight lipped bank in Dubai. Almost exactly what the above article mentions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindsight2020 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Prosuper said: When I was there the scuttlebutt about this was the Afghan shooter was flying unplanned missions with the C-27's , for what anybody's guess but heroin would be mine and the USAF folks were about to pull the plug on the moonlighting gig. I wonder how much money never made it to Afghanistan and got held up in a tight lipped bank in Dubai. Well, the RUMINT I got was the financial duress angle got to the shooter, based on a ratings demotion during American occupation compared to his salary position during Taliban rule. I'm inclined to believe this theory, Occam's Razor and all that jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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