HFS!

want to see that bagram airfield crash?!?!

We still don't know much about the seven people who died when a cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, but dashboard camera footage surfaced Tuesday morning on the website LiveLeak — and it provides more answers than you may even feel comfortable watching. (via)

you don't. but you do. just watch it. the comments on the article are morbidly fascinating.

jic you missed it.

love ya, hillz.

look at hillary and hamid karzai sharing a chuckle over herman cain's ignorance. ceeeeeYUTE!

thx john!

RIP hotties

nytimes posts pics of the army hotties who were killed in that afghanistan helicopter crash.

touching

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i reluctantly enjoyed this.

some of these marines aren't *telling*. jus' sayin. (via)

"You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."

The reported last words of Richard Holbrooke, veteran US diplomat.

cutest award ever.

 

Treo, an eight-year-old black Labrador from the Military Working Dogs, was presented with Britain’s Dickin medal, awarded for bravery and commitment in wartime, the highest military honor an animal can expect at the Imperial War Museum in London on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. Treo was decorated for his work sniffing out explosives in Afghanistan. (via)

funny news.

rachel walks us through a ridiculously complex chart for the plan in afghanistan, created by the joint chiefs of staff. i can't believe this is real. yes i can.