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  • Close air support protects coalition forces, kills 70 insurgents

    11/15/2011 11:45:14 AM PST · by SZonian · 15 replies
    af.mil ^ | 11/14/2011 | Staff Sgt. John Wright
    BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- F-15E Strike Eagles from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 121st EFS dropped more than 9,000 pounds of munitions through severe weather on enemy forces trying to overrun a combat outpost in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Nov. 8. According to reports, up to 70 Taliban were killed while attacking COP Margah in a large scale coordinated attack. Coalition forces were first alerted to the attack when rocket-propelled grenades began to hit the camp. Shortly thereafter, the insurgents attacked the camp from multiple positions using small arms and RPG fire. Staff Sgt....
  • I shot 7 Taliban fighters in a day

    01/02/2010 7:54:24 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 57 replies · 3,438+ views
    newsoftheworld.co.uk ^ | Jan. 1, 2010 | Douglas Wight
    The army's best shot watched in delight down the sights of his L96A1 rifle as the launcher bobbed along for 20 yards behind the wall... and paused. The point of the rocket dipped and aimed towards him. The enemy's face bobbed up into the crosshair. And Steve squeezed the trigger. He saw the face wobble with the impact. Half of it blew away. The grenade launcher fell back over the wall and disappeared... but only briefly. Seconds later it was back up, bobbing along the wall. Steve watched it until it stopped, and fired again as a second Taliban face...