It hit the wire this morning…
GEN McChrystal banned the sale of alcohol at the military alliance’s Kabul headquarters after becoming frustrated when he had trouble getting in touch with some of his staff after the attack in Kunduz.
Many news outlets have reported this, story to include some like The Ledger at www.theledger.com/article/20090909/NEWS/909095025/1410?Title=Eight-U-S-Troops-Killed-In-Iraq-and-Afghanistan
However after doing some digging I have found out the truth behind all of this. See the MSM leads the reader to believe that the “Staff†are the General’s American staff that helps him. But that is not the case. I have found out from my sources that the people who were drunk, hung-over and unable to perform their duties in a timely manner were in fact German military members at the ISAF HQ.
The US staff at the ISAF HQ was sober and had their wits, but when they tried to communicate to the German military members in order to get information from the German military members stationed in the Kunduz area that had cleared the air drop, the US forces were unable to make contact.
Now don’t get my wrong, we all know that Americans do a good enough job at screwing up, like the Guards Gone Wild at the US Embassy. But from what I am hearing, this one was not on us but instead the German military representatives. The same German military that last year was noted in many articles to be too drunk or out of shape to go out on combat missions.
At the main German base in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan, there is a purpose-built nightclub known as the Beach Club Bar where hundreds of camp-bound troops party every Thursday. In a leaked report, German officers branded their troops there “useless cake-eaters,†before a parliamentary report revealed that 3,500 troops had consumed about 1.7 million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine in a year.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6825321.ece
To those that read this blog from Germany, I am sorry if you are offended as that is not my intent. I am only writing the facts as I have heard them from sources in the country.
dghealy
says:
what “air drop” are we talking about?
Bouhammer
says:
dghealy,
The bombing of the stolen tanker trucks in Kunduz
Hagenmary
says:
Oh fer christssake! It’s not bad enough already, now our soldiers have to worry about how drunk & useless their support systems are? Yeah, it’s been a looong road and it sucks over there and blah blah blah. But COME ON!! This is never gonna be over unless every single soldier brings 100%. MY son is doing his job; either man up or get outta the way.
David M
says:
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 09/10/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
.-= David M´s last blog ..A Birthday Rule 5 at 5:00 =-.
Kasmir
says:
The “guards” at US Embassy were Armor Group mercenaries from many countries, and only 30% were Americans (see the article above). Worse, several papers in the UK have carried stories alleging they were American soldiers.
.-= Kasmir´s last blog ..You buy the Ticket You Get the Full Ride =-.
Bender
says:
Do the math, these are big numbers but 1.3 pints of beer per day/person and 1/2 bottle of wine per week is nothing to get a good German drunk. Unless the lost that skill as well.
I think what is going on is a very different view of the mission, from the German perspective. They should bug out if they do not support the current strategy.
black tie
says:
US Soliders in Afghanistan are under general order #1, and are not allowed to drink alcohol,and do not have access to alcohol!!