"Putting-up camp"? Excuse me? Setting-up an Overwatch and Ambush Position isn't exactly a "camp" nor is figuring out these spots Advanced Military Science. If you're Taliban you don't need a "mole" within the SF Camp to project where they might want to set-up these spots. They have the Home Field Advantage and would have had plenty of time to lace these road-led hill tops with IEDs to deny their use.   See 5 other replies

Nobody "allowed" the last vehicle to turn-on their lights. They were ANA meaning NO NVGs. Imagine yourself and illiterate Afghan soldier and try driving in a convoy on a pitch black night in the last vehicle. You hear on the radio to keep moving forward but you can't see crap and you know there are three trucks ahead of you "somewhere". You get to a point where you say "Screw it and these gringos! I'm not driving-off a ditch! I want to see where I'm going if they want to keep me rolling forward."And the Taliban didn't "attack them in the dark". Duh. Didn't you hear the part about them rolling-up on a pressure-detonated IED mine? The whole hillside was laced with IEDs. That was one they missed.   See 5 other replies

The road does lead "somewhere", to the peak of the hill to be exact. Now if you're in a War Zone what do you do to those pieces of High Ground? Either secure them for yourself (set-up an OP), or deny their use to your enemy (lace the place with IEDs). You don't need "snitches in the camp" to arrive at that conclusion. Land Combat 101.   See 5 other replies

My thought exactly. They even pointed out that road went nowhere and nobody outside that camp knew they'd be on that hill that night and I don't care how raw those Afghan troops were, you don't those "mistakes" working with SF troops.   See 5 other replies

I hear you. Like they said earlier in the docu, they work with the Afghan Army but don't fully trust them. This proves that point. They were either stupid or working for the Taliban. To be honest, having 7 IED's at the exact spot you planned on putting up camp made me immidiatly think they had a mole among them.   See 5 other replies