Mark Tapscott: Army Special Forces Aren't The Green Berets Of Old. They're Better -- Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner
At least 150 Taliban swarmed in front and around him when Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller of the U.S. Army Special Forces charged at them on a cold Afghanistan morning in January 2008 in order to provide cover for the retreat of his fellow Green Berets and a dozen members of the Afghan National Forces.
They were on patrol in a valley that harbored a Taliban compound. After calling in air strikes on the compound, Miller, who was 24 years of age, and his unit headed toward it to inspect the damage. That's when they were ambushed, surrounded and subjected to deadly plunging fire from three sides by insurgents wielding AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades.
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