Michael Yon returns to war: 'Death in the Corn'

A t-shirt worn by one of the British troops in Afghanistan says plainly that their business is killing Taliban -- and business is good.

Michael Yon is back at war with the troops, this time in Afghanistan. Nobody since Ernie Pyle in WWII has spent more time with the troops in the mud, blood and grime of war than Yon.

He's posted Part 1 of a series he calls "Death in the Corn" with British troops way out in no man's land, where "Terry" Taliban shells the Brits daily and even hourly with RPGs and attacks often.

The soldiers are living like animals at a little rat’s nest called FOB Gibraltar. They call it “Gib.” Named after the lynchpin of British naval dominance in the Mediterranean, this cluster of mud huts in the middle of hostile territory is more like Fort Apache, Afghanistan. The British soldiers from C-Company 2 Para live in ugly conditions, fight just about every day, and morale is the best I have seen probably anywhere.

Say a prayer for Michael and the troops, ours and our allies, in the never-ending war on terror.