{"id":849,"date":"2009-12-03T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2009-12-03T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:43:09","slug":"another-day-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Another Day In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.soc.mil\/releases\/News%20Archive\/2009\/December\/091202-01.html\" target=\"_blank\">USASOC News<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fire came from our 12  o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock and then maybe a couple of seconds later from our right and left,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Norton said.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the first enemy rocket-propelled grenade team, a medium machine gun on elevated ground to the northwest engaged them with highly effective fire. Two more enemy combatants were on the slope of the valley to the west, engaged the Ranger squad with an AK-47 and rocket-propelled grenades along the long axis of their formation, while another group of enemy fighters were on elevated terrain to the east, raked them with small arms fire from the rear of the Ranger squad formation.<\/p>\n<p>The multiple enemy positions had effectively enveloped Norton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s squad from multiple directions at a distance of 25 to 50 meters, leaving Norton and his element pinned to the floor of the valley by the intense and accurate small arms fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.soc.mil\/releases\/News%20Archive\/2009\/December\/091202-01.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: USASOC News \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fire came from our 12 o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock and then maybe a couple of seconds later from our right and left,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Norton said. Behind the first enemy rocket-propelled grenade team, a medium machine gun on elevated ground to the northwest engaged them with highly effective fire. Two more enemy combatants were on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}