OUTPOST PRIDE ROCK, Afghanistan — Above the U.S. base, way above, you can see a spine of rock between the Pech River and the mouth of the Korengal Valley, where an Afghan flag flies. This collection of sand bags and bunkers, topped by machine gun nests, now takes the brunt of bullets and rockets once […]
ZHERAI, Kandahar — The mission started in the moonlight. A rocket launched an explosive rope (called a MICLIC) hundreds of meters into the green zone of Zherai district where soldiers of the 2-101st have been skirmishing with Taliban for the past four months. We felt the shock wave from an explosion of almost 2,000 pounds […]