Дед Григорий wrote:
я читал книжку бывшего начальника миссии ЦРУ в Афгане, которая прибыла туда вскоре после 9/11....
американские спецназовцы тоже быстро пересели на коней.
In Afghanistan, CIA and military Special Ops teams combine a striking blend of high-tech and low. One story has a CIA officer on horseback placing a satellite call to military command back in the United States.
There is a story about one of them out there on a mountaintop, riding this horse with a wooden saddle, and he's talking back to headquarters saying, 'I'm up above the feed line and I can't find any feed for my horse. Could you send me some feed? And by the way, while you're at it, I've got this wooden saddle, and it's gonna kill me if I keep riding on this wooden saddle. Could you get me a proper saddle? And while you're at it, by the way, there's a, there's a target right out here. The coordinates, there's thus and so. So this B-2 flies all the way from Missouri, drops the feed drops the saddle, and drops the bombs. And that's, that's a whole new world. Same old thing, but in a whole new way.
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