Forward Operating Base Wilderness, April 2008

We were returning from the day's outing, a familiarization patrol, designed for the platoon to get to know the area and locals, when the fast radio chatter started. There was a suspected Taliban road checkpoint-four men in a blue flatbed jingle truck, blocking the road and demanding money for passage. Rolling and armed, and just minutes from the reported location, we were the immediate responders, now racing for the site. The excitement was discernible in the radio voices of the platoon leader (PL) and his platoon sergeant and team leaders, all spread among the five up-armored Humvees in the patrol that included two Ford Ranger pickup trucks ...

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