Vantage Point: Protecting the Eyes That Face Explosions -- New York Times
Late in the afternoon on May 27, 2010, a Marine and Afghan foot patrol working in the scrub and dunes along the Helmand River in Afghanistan unknowingly walked up to a hidden bomb. The description of what happened next will be familiar to anyone who has closely followed the war, or walked Afghanistan’s rural provinces with Western troops for any length of time.
The patrol was being watched by someone who was himself in hiding, and who detonated the device when the patrol was close. At least two Marines were standing beside the bomb, which had been buried in the soil.
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