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by
Sean Parnell
Through our night vision, we could see the fading heat signatures from their dismembered remains.
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.
a few tracers shot up through the night as they randomly strafed our hilltop, they made no further attacks.
the ANA swept the hillside to search the burned bodies scattered around us. We took no contact;
We later estimated that we had killed between forty-five and sixty of the enemy on July 26,
“Sir, we have a bird coming in an hour. Aren’t you supposed to go on leave? Do you want a slot?”
He told me to get out to the landing zone and wait for the helicopter.
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.
TWENTY-THREE
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.
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.
TWENTY-FOUR
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PART
IV
INDOMITABLE
MOMENTS
TWENTY-FIVE
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
to
keep
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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.
We had an enemy mole in our midst.
In
coded references, he had revealed the exact location at which Outlaw Platoon planned to establish an observation post that day.
The insurgents had beat us to the hilltop and seeded it with mines. No doubt, the nearby villagers had seen them emplace the devices.
Yusef fell under immediate suspicion.
“Captain Dye is going to take him to Orgun-E later today to arrest him.
Cole’s death. Logically, it made sense. My heart joined my head, and the unity demanded that I accept responsibility.
war had sucked me dry.
I
was still
Outlaw Platoon’s leader, and the men needed me. And that required overcoming the self-loathing I felt and staying...
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