Air Strike on Taliban Snipers | The Hornet's Nest

[Music] so i got a little bit of movement in the little tertiary valley to the left and there's movement there's three dudes they hit the vehicle so you're a good look whoa son of a [ __ ] we got a bunch of these that we were just shot at by the enemy from that hillside this is a disc around a little over 12 millimeter diameter ground very deadly when it hits you let's get it and then watch me hey i'll either go up left right or back up far away he's still too low oh nice good shot yeah uh one person is injured now one person injured he's okay but his legs are they're reporting everything's okay right now they're good it's not going to be okay they don't know what's about to hit them roger i need to go to the left of that there's a rat trail on the left side of that give me uh three shots right there for right now so we're gonna walk you right on hey let's get another target worked up good bombs good bombs false bravado involved they see us they've been watching us for a while they're moving in position they don't think we can harm them they just haven't fought us yet how close were those bullets coming to you you're close enough to hear the go by huh gunfire buzzes when it's close enough to you it sounds like a bee passing over your shoulder and that's when we knew that things were serious

Channel: American Heroes Channel

Views: 49,030,096

Rating: 4.5808411 out of 5

Keywords: history documentary, the hornet's nest, embedded reporters, mike boettcher, carlos boettcher, afghanistan combat footage, close air support, bombing snipers

Id: YDvugsSjI6s

Length: 3min 0sec (180 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 11 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/UnassumingSloth]

This is 2-327th 1st BCT 101st Airborne. This was in RC east in just north of asadabad if I remember correctly. The two main guys that spoke were LTC Vowell the battalion commander and SGM fields the battalion Sergeant major.

Edit: To provide a little more context we were providing over watch for a convoy of supplies moving through a long stretch of historically dangerous roadway. The only reason the BC and CSM were involving themselves is because they just so happened to be there. we were stretched out over several dozen km of road, with other incidents occurring at many other points along the route.

[u/Hazzman]

Oh god not this ridiculous clip again.

"AHC Brings you 'Afghanistan - a heavily edited photo op'"

[u/dorn1c]

You don’t see much combat footage where they spot targets at a white plastic table

[u/printmeister]

“That’ll teach them to shoot at my soldiers.”

you damn right it will

[u/Philosauer]

This is how we end up in a 17 year war. O5s and E9s doing platoon leader/sergeant's job destroying a dishka that's probably 40 years old with an airstrike that probably cost more than I'll make in a lifetime.

[u/RoutaOps]

I wish my country had the resources to pull these off hah!

[u/theSpringZone]

That was my sister battalion "No Slack". We were in the Pech Valley and Korengal when this deployment went down. Good shit. Bastogne!

[u/BigGuy775]

Lit

[u/[deleted]]

The Taliban snipers were long gone when they saw or heard the fighter jets coming.