Sorry that it has taken so long to get back on the blog. We have all been very busy. One night earlier in the month my wingman and I were escorting some CH-47's into a landing zone. As the CH-47's were landing they started to take a lot of enemy fire. The fire was so intense that they had to abort the landing and leave the area. Our flight of 2 Apaches were able to find where the fire originated from and made 2 straffing runs on the position. We both observed a pretty big secondary explosion. The CH-47's then returned again to infil the ground forces. Once again, they came under heavy fire even as we provided a close escort and laid down suppressive fire around the landing zone. We found three more people that were out and about when they were not suppose to be ( 2:00 AM) and acting in a tactical manner. We made a another straffing run with the 30mm cannon and hit the target very well with about 60 rounds. The ground forces went to the first engagement site and found the three bodies (with RPG's, AK-47's, and cell phones). We then talked them onto the second engagement site where they found the other three bodies. One of the bodies there was the target of the actual raid and was a high level commander. It was believed that his presence was why the defense was so intense. We learned later that his sub-commander fled back to Pakistan the next day due to being so scared!
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