Black Hawk down..............

greenberetTFS · 09-22-2010, 12:31

nytimes.com

The battle of Wanat is being described as the "Black Hawk Down" of Afghanistan, with the 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three to one in a four-hour firefight that left nine Americans dead and 27 wounded in one of the bloodiest days of the eight-year war................

Soldiers who survived the battle described how their automatic weapons turned white hot and jammed from nonstop firing. Mortally wounded troops continued to hand bullet belts to those still able to fire..............

Read the whole story on nytimes.com

Big Teddy

nmap · 09-22-2010, 19:24

Here's a link to the article: LINK

Those American soldiers exhibited inspiring courage.

Penn · 09-22-2010, 19:54

A more in-depth review of the process involved in the AAR and the IG report.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wanat

hoot72 · 09-23-2010, 05:22

Reminds me of Zulu (link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/)

mark46th · 09-23-2010, 08:06

And, the Brits at Rork's Drift did it without automatic weapons.

kgoerz · 09-23-2010, 17:09

I think that Battle is described in the book War. The Sister Fire Base that the book was about. Partially blamed them for being Attacked like they did because they weren't being very proactive. Saying the reason they weren't attacked was because they constantly went outside the Wire for Ambushes and patrols. Where the Fire Base that was attacked didn't.