There I was ... in the Congo.(operations in Afghanistan)

The night mission in support of a U.S. Army Special Forces A-Team south of Qandahar Airport went like most missions we had flown the previous two months, albeit a little more interesting. We hit Al Qaeda and Taliban targets at night in a final push against the Taliban stronghold near the Qandahar airport. It wasn't exactly a 1+30 night bomb-smoke mission.

A series of elements, including our own, were tasked to destroy buildings that the ground FAC said were occupied by enemy forces. To keep the night more interesting, we saw random bursts of anti-aircraft artillery and