Every Step is Your Last

Another Afghan Soldier watches.

Other Soldiers push down parts of a wall to make hasty fighting positions.

The most dangerous jobs in Afghanistan and Iraq probably have been truck drivers, and EOD.  Our EOD people are not like the “Hurt Locker” circus.  They are not crazy, but well trained, extremely courageous, and equally important.  There is no way to know how many lives they’ve saved in the wars.  An EOD Soldier from this team recently lost his legs.  Apparently he was being targeted.  And here, now, were bombs in yellow jugs.  Many times the jugs contain boobytraps.  This entire wall might be laced with bombs because sometimes the enemy hides them in the mud walls.

While EOD worked the bombs, the medic worked the wounded Soldier.  His boot was fine, and there was no blood on the Soldier’s wounded foot and ankle.

Comrades carried him back to our last strong point, where he was evacuated back to our base called FOB Pasab.  He was fine.

A cemetery was just next to the ambush spot.  The enemy started firing at us and bullets snapped by and troops returned fire but it was over quickly.

The morning sun can be beautiful here.