Behind The Scenes With The Men Who Call In The Airstrikes

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From Wired.co.uk:

The enemy fighters have them surrounded. It's the worst possible time for Staff Sergeant Kevin Rosner's radio to stop working.

It's 26 March in the Chowkay valley in Afghanistan's mountainous Kunar province, along the Pakistani border. Able Company, from the US Army's 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, has darted into the remote farming valley for a brief meeting with village elders.

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My Comment: Being a JTAC in a war zone is probably one of the hardest jobs to have. If things go well, you are hero. If things go bad .... you will have to live with it for the rest of your life.

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