The Importance of Air Support in Afghanistan

"I remember one time we were looking on the drone feed and we saw a truck with anti aircraft gun, a ZPU driving around Helmand Province," he says. "And now we need to take that because that could shoot down a helicopter and that would affect our missions where we can go." The Taliban had night vision goggles and ladders scaled the walls in the middle of the night and just shot them like fish in a barrel killed Like they told us 20, but you don't know how many they actually killed. So we had to scrap that mission and get all the vehicles we could together".

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