Military Guardian Angels

From USA Today:
"New security for U.S. troops in Afghanistan"

U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have assigned "guardian angels" — troops that watch over their comrades even as they sleep — and have ordered a series of other increased security measures to protect troops against possible attacks by rogue Afghans. The added protections are part of a directive issued in recent weeks by Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to guard against insider threats, according to a senior military official. And they come in the wake of a spike in attacks on U.S. and coalition forces by Afghans, including the point-blank shooting deaths of two U.S. advisers in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior.

In several Afghan ministries, Americans are now allowed to carry weapons. And they have been instructed to rearrange their office desks there to face the door, so they can see who is coming in, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the internal directive.

^ This seems to be a good strategy (they are in a war zone afterall and people want to kill them.) I'm surprised it has taken so long to implement. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/afghanistan/story/2012-03-28/nato-afghanistan/53834630/1