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Battle Scars of a Fallen Air Base SOUTHERN IRAQ BRIAN BENNETT...
...There" is a newly captured air base in southern Iraq the coalition is rebuilding to relieve pressure on the 200-mile supply line into Iraq from Kuwait that has been subject to constant Iraqi harassment. And getting "there" in the lumbering HC-130, a big, slow target for surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), means flying about 300 feet above the desert and passing through a gauntlet of Iraqi radar systems. Because of all the surface-to-air-missile beacons in the area, alarms go off in the cabin. And one pesky mobile SAM battery has been roaming around and targeting...
...from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who has been in hiding since his regime fell in December 2001. U.S. forces have struck back hard. Following a tip from a rebel captured near Kandahar, U.S. forces and their Afghan allies killed at least 20 suspected Taliban fighters at a base in the Haba Mountains, according to Gul Agha Sherzai, the Kandahar governor. When a special - forces patrol came under fire in the Torghar Mountains, air support was called in, and an estimated 40 Taliban fighters were pounded with 16,000 kg of explosives, according to a U.S. military spokesman...
...Then his convoy started taking fire from the direction of the van, and Talraas was hit in the leg. "It felt like something had snapped my bone in half," says the young soldier from his hospital bed at Tallil Air Base in south eastern Iraq...
...Tallil Air Base 55 miles southeast, Sergeant Henry Barbe was fast asleep. Barbe is an Army "DUSTOFF" medic (an acronym for "Dedicated, Unhesitating Support to Our Fighting Forces"), part of the corps whose medical evacuation helicopters fly in to pick up their injured comrades in danger zones. And because their helicopters are marked with the red cross, the Geneva Convention forbids them from carrying offensive weapons. They are armed with nothing more than four 9mm pistols and one M16 rifle...