Afghanistan Diary: Heating Up A Frigid Winter Night
CBS 11 anchor Keith Garvin and photojournalist Edgar Solis are traveling to Afghanistan to see the U.S. war effort firsthand. In February they will bring back a series of stories about our troops there. While they are traveling, Keith is writing this blog for CBSDFW.COM.
BAGRAM AIRFIELD (CBSDFW.COM) – We just spent about 40 minutes inside a concrete bunker after the base received indirect missile fire. The alarm sounded almost exactly at midnight.
One of the majors in the PAO was just saying yesterday that the base hadn't gotten hit by indirect fire for a few weeks and felt that they were due. He was right.
One of the MPs who came by our bunker said they believe there were two impacts just outside the perimeter.
Indirect fire and attacks in general by insurgents diminish quite a bit in the winter time. The Taliban simply doesn't like to fight when it's cold. Soldiers have explained it to me this way: it's a cultural thing.
For centuries the mujahideen has planted in the spring, fought in the summer, harvested in fall, and hunkered down in the winter. But that doesn't mean they go totally silent. Tonight it is snowing & temperatures are in the single digits.
Clearly the Taliban isn't in hibernation.
