Can you talk more about guarding poppie fields? How prevalent was this experience? Does it still happen?
Taliban banned the production of poppy. The United states invaded one year later and poppy production soared. Really makes one think.
I have several friends who served over there and they all said they were basically guarding poppy fields.
Read up on the Opiate Wars. Something not really taught in pulibc education so just more history repeating.
Not a vet but I get along with that crowd.
Basically, there isn't too much to tell. It's all under "COIN Ops" as one friend of mine put it, basically meaning counter-insurgency operations.
And it just so happens to be next to the poppy fields.
Does it still happen? Sure. Why not?
How prevalent? Depends on where you're deployed is what I've gathered.
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