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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what's making good spot on the burden 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 resale upwards of making a puzzlemight say well telnet get down and fightit's a lot classesnodsthan anyone selling discover all yallinto intuition wali khanthe other group whose inspired by sea 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

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