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Old 13 August 2013, 16:41
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...He gets a lot of attention in Jake Tapper's book The Outpost.
That book was infuriating. It's amazing how fucked up the regular Army can be.

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I'm glad to see Carter get the recognition he deserves.
Completely agree.
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Old 15 August 2013, 11:07
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That book was infuriating. It's amazing how fucked up the regular Army can be.
Oh hell yes. I'll never stop wondering how anyone could have thought putting an outpost at the bottom of three mountains was a good idea.

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Old 16 August 2013, 10:24
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Oh hell yes. I'll never stop wondering how anyone could have thought putting an outpost at the bottom of three mountains was a good idea.

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Seems the conservative media has been fixated on Benghazi, and rightly so, regarding the loss of life there. But, lets also look at all the much higher rate of loss of life amongst soldiers due to poor decisions and incompetence from senior military officers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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