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Platoon Ambushed In The Open, Then Mortars Start Landing
Published 3 years ago
A video from a 2010 deployment to Pateh Kheyl, Paktia province, Afghanistan, shows US soldiers conducting an area recon to pick a site to build a forward operating base (FOB).
An enemy shot rips through the air, and then more arrive. The ground troops go into the prone position to make themselves smaller targets and radio to their vehicles to report the contact while trying to determine the source location of the hostel fire.
Suddenly, a mortar round lands and the soldiers smartly make a hasty withdrawal to their vehicles across the open ground before the indirect fire is corrected onto their position. Once recovered into their vehicles, the unit attempts to close with and destroy the enemy.