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Embedded with 2-1 INF

Nov-23-2009 » Filed Under: 5/2 SBCT

An Army Times reporter is currently embedded with the 2-1 INF, 5/2 SBCT in Southern Afghanistan.

HUTAL, Afghanistan — The denizens of this dusty market town had never seen anything like the sight that greeted them at midday Oct. 12.

The previous day, a handful of insurgents in a nearby village had made the mistake of shooting at a pair of U.S. OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopters. Stryker-borne infantry rushed to the scene and, together with the helicopters, engaged the Taliban, killing one, wounding another, who got away, and detaining three more.

Now, rolling slowly down the main street of the bazaar, came five Stryker vehicles with the weapons captured in that fight tied to their fronts on full display for the locals.


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