Just caught this:
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Burkhas with Guns
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Burkhas with Guns
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Active service 01/67-12/73
Ranger Class 10-68
2/27 Inf 25th Inf Div Vietnam 01/69-01/70
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.” – Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Re: Burkhas with Guns
Reasonable, but outside Kabul, we'll never see them.
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Advisor, VN 66-68 69-70
42d Vn Ranger Battalion 1969-1970
Trainer, El Salvador 86-87
Advisor, Saudi Arabian National Guard 91, 93-94
75th RRA Life Member #867
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CloakAndDagger
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Re: Burkhas with Guns
The article says this in Herat (Western Afghanistan), which is a mostly a Dari-speaking Tajik region, rather than a Pashtu. Relatively speaking (can't place enough emphasis here), the region is more liberal than the Pakistan-border regions (the tradition problem areas).