Word: choppers
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...fellow grunts clambered down the chopper's ramp, Perez realized that they had basically flown into a gigantic stadium and scrambled out, vulnerable and exposed, in the home team's end zone. From up in the grandstands--the half-mile-high mountains ringing them on three sides--an unknown number of al-Qaeda fighters began peppering the Americans with AK-47 fire. Operation Anaconda had just begun--and Perez and his comrades were already playing defense...
...everybody?" Grippe yelled at him over the roar of the 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...
...shot dead by Massoud's guards while trying to escape. Khalili believes he was saved by his passport, which was in his left breast pocket--eight pieces of shrapnel were found embedded in it. Dashty remembers being rushed to a helicopter with Massoud, who had terrible wounds. The chopper flew them both to a hospital in Tajikistan. By the time they arrived, Massoud was dead...
Freshman Schuyler Mann started off the ninth with a chopper hit towards second. Deeb ranged over to field the ball, but it bounced through his legs, letting Mann reach safely. Carter failed at his attempt to sacrifice Mann over to second, ultimately striking out swinging...
...tried to downplay the awkward spectacle of a bulky six-foot male riding shotgun to a female eight inches shorter and roughly half his body weight, giving our fellow riders the “I’m just letting the li’l lady take my chopper for a spin” nod. Detecting a measure of disbelief on the part of our fellow riders, I soon reverted to the more readily believed “I’ve misplaced my penis and she’s helping me to locate it?...