There would be another option.
You could volunteer for the Navy, or the Air Force.
All the Air Force would do is fly supply missions.

Mano e Mano!

You know what made me think like that Sam?

If you want to know I'll answer you honestly, but you'll have to show an interest!

Im off to bed now!
Good Night JSH

I am now (Egypt)... (I have edited this due to BS on my part)
It is BC, dontcha know (Before Coffee)

Im back and ready to hunt more Afghans!!!

Dont be nasty.
they are lovely hounds.
If you brush them properly they look beautiful.

Plus, they are used for hunting ...

You're right I should have said Taliban!
My apology to all Afghan people and animals who aren't Taliban!!

I think this answers the question as to whether it was a real wedding or not

The BBC's Alastair Leithead was the first journalist to reach the scene of a US air raid which Afghan authorities say killed about 50 civilians in the east of the country on 6 July. He reports on what he found:

On a hillside high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan there are three charred clearings where the American bombs struck.

Scattered around are chunks of twisted metal, blood stains and small fragments of sequinned and brightly decorated clothes - the material Afghan brides wear on their wedding day.

After hours of driving to the village deep in the bandit country of Nangarhar's mountains we heard time and again the terrible account of that awful day.

What began as celebration ended with maybe 52 people dead, most of them women and children, and others badly injured.

The US forces said they targeted insurgents in a strike. But from what I saw with my own eyes and heard from the many mourners, no militants were among the dead.

A big double-wedding was taking place between two families, with each exchanging a bride and a groom.

So Lal Zareen's son and daughter were both getting married on the same day.

He gave the account with his son, sitting at his feet.

"This is all the family I now have left," he said in a disturbingly matter of fact sort of way.

From his story and from those of other survivors, it appears the wedding group was crossing a narrow pass in the mountains which divides the valleys where the two families live.

From nowhere a fast jet flew low and dropped a bomb right on top of the pass near a group of children who had impatiently rushed ahead and were resting, waiting for the women to catch up.

Shah Zareen was part of the group up on the path - he had narrowly escaped being caught in the first bomb and told the women to stay where they were as he rushed to help the children.

Second blast

Shah Zareen picked up one of the injured, ran down to the village and on his way was calling his local member of parliament on a mobile phone to say they had been attacked.

But then he heard the second blast - the bomb had been dropped on top of the women and almost all of them had been killed.

Three girls escaped, among them the bride, but as they ran down the hillside a third bomb landed on top of them.

Shah Zareen explained to me how one of the many new graves contained just body parts of two or three people and the graves that had been dug and not filled were for those still missing - once their remains had been found.

The BBC team I was with were the first outsiders to see where the bombs hit - even the Afghan investigators did not climb up the steep mountainside - and there was much evidence to support the story.

The fact we could travel to the area in local cars was proof that Taleban insurgents, al-Qaeda operatives or foreign fighters were not present in the valley.

TWO BOMBS from a hi-tech fighter plane on a wedding, as reported by a neutral reporter.

THIS is the reason you will never win a war in Afghanistan. This will harden the resolve of any guerilla

boy those militants sure have a lot of weddings


is that their way of acquiring additional forces

things that make ya go hhhhhmmmmmmm

If its true!
I'm not saying it isnt, but that story could be made up and the reporter easily fooled!

A couple hundred thousand grunts on the ground and there would be no doubt.

I guess this stuff gains them sympathy aye??

KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 17 civilians, most of them children, and four police in a bazaar in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, police said.

Taliban suicide bombs have killed more than 230 civilians and wounded nearly 500 already this year, NATO says…

In the latest attack the bomber, traveling on a motorcycle, targeted a police vehicle in a bazaar in the Deh Rawood district of Uruzgan province, the provincial police chief told Reuters.

"Seventeen civilians and four policemen died in the attack. Thirty-seven more civilians and five police have been wounded," Juma Khan Himat said by telephone, adding the death toll could rise. Most of the civilian victims were children, he said…

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/heroic-taliban-kill-more-women-and-children


A suicide bomber targeting the Indian embassy in Kabul has killed 41 people and injured 141 others in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since the fall of the Taliban.

The bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a convoy of vehicles as it was entering the Indian legation. The explosion killed an Indian defence attaché, a senior diplomat and four guards while six others died in the nearby Indonesian embassy. The vast majority of the casualties, however, were among Afghan civilians queuing for visas as well as people in nearby shops and businesses.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kabul-suicide-bomber-kills-41-in-worst-attack-since-fall-of-taliban-862060.html


Following up on a death threat, Taliban militants broke into a house and fatally shot two teachers and three other family members, bringing to 20 the number of educators killed in attacks this year, officials and a relative said Saturday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/world/asia/10afghan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Taliban guerrillas kidnapped and killed 16 people in an Afghan province after finding them with voter registration cards for the country's September elections, officials said Sunday.


The killings Friday night in the province of Zabul were the most serious attack yet on the elections, which the Taliban and allied Islamic militants have vowed to disrupt.

News of the violence came a day after a bomb killed two young women, one a student, working to register voters for the U.N.-Afghan electoral body in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

The violence brought fresh calls for NATO members to make good on pledges to protect the polls at a two-day summit in Istanbul from Monday.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-06/28/content_343444.htm

How about this? Sympathy?

KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 9 — Taliban militants killed a woman and her 13-year-old son after accusing them of spying for the government and for foreign troops in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan government said Wednesday.

The woman was shot and her son was hanged by an electrical wire from a tree on Monday in Helmand Province, said a spokesman for the provincial governor, Hajji Mohaiuddin.

http://www.rawa.org/womanhanged.htm

The reporter says,
The fact we could travel to the area in local cars was proof that Taleban insurgents, al-Qaeda operatives or foreign fighters were not present in the valley.


Same area the reporter says is safe!

From August 24, 2007

Senior al Qaeda leader may have been wounded in the ongoing battle at Tora Bora

The battle at the Tora Bora mountains in Nangarhar province has completed its first week, the fighting has intensified as Afghan Army and US forces hunt Taliban and al Qaeda fighters who have infiltrated the region. Scores of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives are reported to have been captured after upwards of 50 terrorists were killed in the initial fighting. A senior al Qaeda leader was also reported to have been wounded in the attack.

http://clearinghouse.infovlad.net/showthread.php?t=8835


Same area, June 23 2008!
Reporter says no insurgents in the area. Remember?

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led forces rained fire for two days on militants near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, officials said Monday, killing about 55 insurgents and underscoring how fighting with Taliban insurgents is escalating.
The battle in eastern Paktika province was the second in the past week to reportedly inflict major casualties on militants, whom Afghan officials insist are swarming in from strongholds in Pakistan.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-06-23-1051356149_x.htm

Tons of stories of recent attacks by insurgents in this area recently.

After all Tora Bora was Bin Ladens stronghold!