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...that Choi died under torture or was thrown out of a window. For Hur Yong Chun, the process provided some of the answers he's sought for more than 18 years. After hearing closed-door testimony from men who were at the base, the commission found that a drunken sergeant identified only as Roh?a common surname in South Korea?accidentally shot Hur's son once in the chest at a party in the early hours of April 2, 1984. The next morning?when the wounded soldier was still alive?he was shot again and killed. The commission didn...
...followed his example. "About five of the guys from Charlie Company, they stayed up on the ridge line, and they were receiving sniper fire and machine-gun fire--rounds were bouncing all around them--but they stayed there to cover our movement," says Sergeant First Class Robert Healy, who was wounded in the fighting. "None of them faltered...
...gunships were pulverizing caves and crags. Perez's men set their M-4s to fire single shots instead of three-bullet bursts. "Perez was controlling his rates of fire, pointing out targets, just doing an awesome job," Grippe says. Kraft, the company commander, was impressed. "Here's a staff sergeant, stepping up and doing the job of a lieutenant who has gone through years of training," he says. "He was incredible...
...nerves. Hiding 500 yards away, he'd come out shooting--and he seemed to be spotting for a mortar unit. He'd wave and flip his middle finger at the Americans before ducking back inside his stone nest. He continued to elude U.S. fire until Perez teamed up with Sergeant Jerry Higley, another squad leader. Their M-4s didn't have magnifying scopes, and the distance and rising trajectory of their bullets made hitting the sniper a challenge. So the two sergeants began working together. Higley squeezed off rounds as Perez used his binoculars to follow the tracers and watch...
...turbines. For the first time that day, Perez had his doubts. He scampered into the darkness and surveyed the area with his night-vision goggles one more time. Finding no Americans, he ran back to the chopper just before it lifted off. Maroyka had to hand it to the sergeant who had stepped into his role. "We all had a bit of fear, but everybody did his job, and the one who did his job more than anybody was Sergeant Perez," he says...