Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of Pat Tillman PART 2
Firefight In Afghanistan-Death of United States Army Ranger Pat Tillman in friendly fire incident.
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such a clear targethe's been shooting tracer roundsmagnesium compliments the glowing red
hot next weekendrangesoldiers used a tomar targets for fellow
shooterbackdrop my magazine and white tracers
batday and i thought my shirt pop another
magazinepause for a second catch my breathwhen i got back up the taliban that were
off to the right side in the honeycombhad started to come outi think that they figured we were
treatedwhere the media threats are engaged and
firsthas a lotthe rest of edwards guerrillas have made
their way back up the hill ever gatheredaround him watching inspirehas a lotfires off a booster rounds from above my
head and i kinda pozo lookuplikes a lot tell them to get down and
fightvisceral notice what a great their
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last fall the actionfollow after itsomeone might have said over the floor
in ourwhile in a town with all my clothes
right after and they're they're shootingwildly in the aircaptain andpauses for a whilecaught off guardhe jumps up and races down the hill
behind his frenzied guerrillasthe village of sri lankakandahar province of afghanistandecember third two thousandtwo thirty p_m_afghan guerrilla fighters allied with
u_s_ officialsforces troops just launched this pointinto the telling them hockey playerthe u_s_ commander of theforce special forces captain jason mis stocked by his men's bold actionover in another town runningrunning along behind i didn't know who
is firmly who wasn'tprogress the circus fit all alongthe ferocity in the brothers to the
charge frightens the taliban fighters inthe fieldchin and on a hilltop to the eastthey break and we treat out the back
side of town and across the dry aredoomed ob riveramarin takes a firing positionand reassess sincethe taliban have retrieved it for now
but he knows they might rally soonso the captain decides to let his
guerrillas press the offensive while hereturns for other special forces
soldiers just outside of townthe special ops troops immediately take
over the entrenched hilltop the talibanhave just a bitwe still don't know what's going on but
always from that from that trench oneweek ago try to correct some actionthe threat of an enemy counterattack
looms largewe could see that the taliban are
starting to reform on the other side ofthe arvind ithere's just a model them startin a
cluster over therethe americans we still time calling for
air supportand an f_-eighteen fighter bombers soon
arrives on the sceneonce f_-eighteen started dropping bombs
bonded f layout anathema disappearcontinued pressure from several fronts
lastthe taliban to capitulatethey evacuate kandahar on december
seventhadvantage into the surrounding hillsthe extremists are no longer
afghanistan's official governingfactionsbut leaders will our homeis not turn himself over the coalition
authoritiesit's like the feelingthough some of the lot every treated in
the mountains and she wears near theborder with pakistanseveral hundred television foot soldiers
still spoiling for a flight follow themfish and he called valleytwenty five miles south of the
provincial capital of cargoes is thoughtto be one likely hideoutwho had been a strongholdand resistance fighters drawings soviet
afghan war so already some kesaripreparefire if you were sitting here talking
and how they had a feeling thatsecuring arabic and operate there with
impunitythe al-qaeda and taliban fighters still
at large are battle-hardened from yearsof conflictfirst with the sovietsin between rival clans of the afghan
civil warfollowing the soviet withdrawalhardcore flightfrom many nationalities summer air of
some church teensthese forces decided to stay and fight
itnearly spring two thousand two hundred
u_s_ high command comes up with the plantrapti enemy fighters to china called
outand killed or capturedbig of the operation anacondaand the idea is to surround the valley
with three rings of troopsthen send in friendly afghan soldiers to
sweep the valley floor clearing outal-qaeda and taliban forces along the
waythere were upwards of a thousand
al-qaeda fighterspolice lorena hydro interrupted should
the familyon march fourthtwo thousand twothe second day of the operation too huhnotes from the one hundred first
important informationmarch into the valleyto help comrades pinned down by mortar
fireour mission was to go there and finally
more and destroy itin late afternoon enemy fighters on
opposing hillside engineer village belowopened fire on the one hundred and first
troopsground fireand the second on fire offat that point were all getting our
defensive positions and naminghe was pretty hardfinest focused on the leadership elaat the center of thecaptain greg fordsergeant major g_a_t_t_ where and othersreturn firefifty caliber machine gun with delta
company in the back of the compoundat that point only fire focused on thatas the fightwears onanymore terrellbegin lending to the heavy machine gunfirst one roundone round shortthe enemy is bracketed position zero onesergeant major taylor rushes toward the
gun positionsand orders everyone away from the areafiring his weapon immediately next to
the machinealso focused on return firenot realize that more if i was coming on
top ofgive the soldiers doesn't come to his
senses soona murderous indirect round is certain to
land squarely on his positionshanghai hotel and happiness andmarch second two thousand two factortwo companies at one hundred first
airborneis are under attackfrom al-qaeda and taliban troopscaliber machinein mere moments devastating round that
you're going to directone soldier is notto celebratesergeant major treaty taylor springs
into actionhere and back up the hilltransported by the first one back and
read the maximum amountseconds laterit's the exact spotwhere the youngster
CSTV's Going West road crew stops by Arizona State and checks out Tillman Tunnel, named for ASU alum and hero Pat Tillman. For more exclusive college football news, log on to www.goingwestfootball.com
The 8th Annual Pat's Run took place in Tempe, AZ on April 21, 2012 with more than 28,000 walkers and runners participating to honor the legacy of Pat Tillman. Proceeds from Pat's Run benefit the Tillman Military Scholars program. More than 30 current Tillman Military Scholars attended Pat's Run this year and helped produce this video to say thank you to participants, sponsors and volunteers.
This video is intended for the sole purpose of my own creativity and does not reflect the opinion of any of the artists or voices used in the video. The song is Mr. President from The Grouch and Eligh. The voices are various newscasters and reporters.
The construction contract for the Colorado River Bridge, was awarded to the joint venture partnership of Obayashi Corporation and PSM Construction USA, Inc., in October of 2004 for US$ 114 million. Construction began in early 2005 and is expected to be completed in 2010. When completed, the 2000 ft-long (610 m) Colorado River Bridge will span the Black Canyon (about 1500 ft/457 m south of the Hoover Dam), connecting the Arizona and Nevada Approach highways nearly 900 ft (274 m) above the Colorado River. The construction requirements and challenges are as difficult as any in the world.
My ReThink Interview with Amir Bar-Lev, the director of the documentary THE TILLMAN STORY, which tells the story of pro football player Pat Tillman, who quit the NFL to join the Army Rangers and the cover-up that ensued when Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
In this interview, Amir talks about why he wanted to tell Pat Tillman's story, why there was not more public outrage when it was revealed that the military's stories about Tillman and Jessica Lynch were lies, why America seems to crave a "sanitized" version of war, and what Amir's favorite movie is.
For more about THE TILLMAN STORY, visit http://www.tillmanstory.com/
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Tillman Military Scholars Richard Garcia, Melissa Stroh, Aaron and Bonnie Contreras. Highlights from the 6th annual Pat's Run held Saturday, April 17, 2010 at ASU's Sun Devil Stadium.
Feature and coverage courtesy of Fox Sports Arizona.
This is an amazing bridge. The 1,900-foot engineering wonder perched 890 feet above the Colorado River bridges 2 states, Nevada and Arizona. It took five years and 21,000 workers to build the dam, and it cost $240 million. The Mike O'Callaghan and Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is the longest bridge built with concrete arches in the western hemisphere, according to the Transportation Department. The arches measure 1,060 feet.
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Construction of the Colorado River Bridge is advancing on the 1,060 foot twin-rib concrete arch. The Colorado River Bridge is the central portion of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. Construction on the nearly 2,000 foot long bridge began in late January 2005 and the completion of the entire Hoover Dam Bypass Project is expected in Late 2010.
