As it turned out, they would make it across the wadi, but not easily. Most of the Afghan “jingle trucks,” named after their tinkling decorations, got stuck in the mud, some more than once. Some of the American vehicles got stuck trying to pull them out. The crossing took three hours.
The convoy finally reached its destination, Combat Outpost Kushmand in Paktika province, but only after a 17-hour day that covered just 20 miles.
Iraq was the bad war. Afghanistan is supposed to be the good war. But before it is all done, I think that Afghanistan is going to leave deeper scars on the American consciousness.
The supply situation is just so much worse in Afghanistan then it was in Iraq that I can’t help feeling that we are a heart beat away from a detachment being surround and killed. Or even worse, the supply lines for Pakistan getting cut and forcing the evacuation of most American troops.