"At the end of the runway, an idle firetruck sat near a massive petrol-fed inferno. Flashes of light and rainbowing tracers played among the hangers, followed half-a-second later by thumps and clatters. Overhead, attack helicopters launched rockets that landed far too close.
"The bad guys are on the wrong side of the fence," Matt Komatsu thought. "Inside the fence."
Komatsu and Dan Warren looked at each other and then at the rest of their team, tightened the lashes on their body armor and rifles, and then one-by-one took off running for a line of armored vehicles closer to the fight. Burning aviation gas lit their way.
It was September 14, 2012. Taliban had successfully breached the wire at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan. But Komatsu and his team weren't primarily in search of insurgents. There were looking for wounded. Lieutenant Colonel Komatsu is an Air Force combat rescue officer. Technical Sergeant Warren is a PJ, a pararescue airman. Their job is trauma medicine on the battlefield. Shooting guns is just part of the commute to work…"
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