The Story Of Shok Valley And The Battle That Resulted With 10 U.S. Soldiers Earning The Silver Star In Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Shok Therapy -- Mark Thompson, Battlefield/Time

A pair of intrepid reporters has just published No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan. Veteran journalists Mitch Weiss, now at the AP — who won a Pulitzer Prize while at the Toledo Blade in 2004 — and Kevin Maurer, who has traveled frequently with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, tell the tale of a Special Forces team caught in a 2008 ambush deep in the Shok Valley.

Trapped far from reinforcements deep in the mountains, they engaged in a seven-hour firefight that earned 10 of their number Silver Stars, the most collected in one battle since Vietnam. Battleland conducted this email chat with them earlier this week:

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My Comment: This report and interview is riveting and on my "must read" list to my readers. Kudos to Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer for this interview AND book.