The 173rd from it's deployment from home base in Vicenza, Italy, was scheduled for embeds - One was a military photogragher, Brandon Aird.
There was the team of Sebastian Junger (Perfect Storm) and British photographer, Tim Hetherington (who's photo of one of the soldiers in Battle Co. just won first prize - out of 80,000 submitted - for the 2007 World Press Photo Award. link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7240590.stm
Their story was shown in an ABC documentary in Nov and in the Jan issue of Vanity Fair.
This NYT Magazine piece was done by a team of two women embedded during the same time -
I have been waiting for months for this to get to publication,,,was afraid I'd miss it, not knowing just which forum they would use or when.
An online contact gave me the head's up on it this morning.
This is an important story of the worst and most dangerous spot in the whole WOT - these incredible troops deserve recognition and to not be forgotten =
I do hope anyone who posts on this story will first read it in it's entirety...it's one small thing we, who enjoy our peaceful sleep back home, can do for them
“I do hope anyone who posts on this story will first read it in it’s entirety...it’s one small thing we, who enjoy our peaceful sleep back home, can do for them”
Amen.
Semper Fi
But the NYTimes doesn’t give a d@mn about soldiers. The point I was trying to make is we can EXPECT to start seeing positive stories on our military now that Dems are about to take over. They have to turn the bus around before Obama or Hill get there so the libs support the war by then.
Five-thousand-pound air-delivery bump.
I hope someone is studying hell out of these small-unit engagements.
In the encounter in which Brennan got mangled and then died, it would seem the bad guys managed to maneuver unseen and then isolate on two guys in the unit and put five or six guys down on them in a rush.
I'm no tactician, but that is what seems like happened. As the narrator's narrator said (the guy who got cited for valor), all of a sudden his guys weren't there, and he was taking fire from their position.
Thank you for posting this. God bless and keep these brave men.
Can’t say I am too impressed with the writer, though. And, yes, I did read the entire piece.