U.S. and Afghan soldiers prepare to board a CH-47 Chinook helicopters to return to base after a mission in the village of Kopak, Mohammud-Agha district, Logar province, Afghanistan, April 22, 2010. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Russell GilchrestAfghan Army Pays Its Dues In Blood As It Takes The Fight To The Taleban -- Times Online
The Blackhawk helicopter rose from the river bed, whipping up a hurricane of swirling dust. American medics crouched against the wind, turning their faces as the casualty evacuation team flew away. Two Afghan soldiers remained standing, faces to the gale, weeping inconsolably for a dying friend.
Forty-five minutes earlier, the pre-dawn grey had just begun to lighten when there was a fist-in-the-guts thump and a rolling pressure wave — and the first vehicle in the convoy moving into the village of Khan Khalay vanished under a white pall.
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