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Barely two months later, following the mortar blast in the Shah-i-Kot, Perez found himself in charge of his platoon. With nine of his 26 men wounded, his immediate concern was getting them to safety without making a bad situation worse. "I'm the quarterback now," Perez thought. "Whatever...
Perez stifled the urge to rush to the aid of the downed men; he knew he would be mowed down if he tried. Instead he stood and began blazing away with his M-4 rifle. That forced the al-Qaeda fighters to take cover in the rocks several hun-dred...
His men 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...
Thirty minutes after the devastating mortar blast, with the sun rising overhead, 1st Platoon's wounded had taken cover in what some called Hell's Half Pipe, a natural trench, already protecting the command post, that shielded them from al-Qaeda's eyes. By chance, the enemy fire kept them...
Perez kept in touch with his men over the radio or by going helmet to helmet. He'd run 100 yards or so from firing positions to bolster the confidence of his shooters and then head back to the relative safety of Hell's Half Pipe to see how his...