Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
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Through our night vision, we could see the fading heat signatures from their dismembered remains.
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We killed so many of them that their casualty evacuation plan collapsed. They simply didn’t have the manpower left to pull their men out.
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a few tracers shot up through the night as they randomly strafed our hilltop, they made no further attacks.
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the ANA swept the hillside to search the burned bodies scattered around us. We took no contact;
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We later estimated that we had killed between forty-five and sixty of the enemy on July 26,
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“Sir, we have a bird coming in an hour. Aren’t you supposed to go on leave? Do you want a slot?”
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He told me to get out to the landing zone and wait for the helicopter.
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I climbed aboard the Chinook with Brian Bray, who was also going home on his midtour leave. Cole had scored two seats for us on a full bird.
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THREE THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY August 16, 2006
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had rented a place on the Maryland shore in honor of my temporary homecoming. We’d be here for a week; then I would return to the war.
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I pulled a chair to the window. In the distance, a dog barked. My watch read three in the morning. The tourists of Ocean City had long since retired to tranquil sleep.
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16, 2006
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FIVE CROSSES TO BEAR Late August 2006
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We’d just come back from my first patrol since I had returned from leave. I’d felt jumpy and insecure, so I had asked Greeson to come along
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“It’s about one of our interpreters.” He had my complete attention now. Quietly, he began to talk. Unbeknown to us, some top secret national-level assets had been tracking unusual communications coming from our area.
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We had an enemy mole in our midst.
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coded references, he had revealed the exact location at which Outlaw Platoon planned to establish an observation post that day.
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The insurgents had beat us to the hilltop and seeded it with mines. No doubt, the nearby villagers had seen them emplace the devices.
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Yusef fell under immediate suspicion.
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“Captain Dye is going to take him to Orgun-E later today to arrest him.
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Cole’s death. Logically, it made sense. My heart joined my head, and the unity demanded that I accept responsibility.
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war had sucked me dry.
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Outlaw Platoon’s leader, and the men needed me. And that required overcoming the self-loathing I felt and staying...
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