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Afghanistan Journal: War at the End of the Road

Plumes of dust hung in the air as our convoy of armored vehicles crawled along the broad valley floor. As we approached the watchtowers and steel gates of Fort Gormach, a firefight with the Taliban broke out high on the steep hills along our left flank. A day later, we held up our departure while American F-16s dived on Taliban positions, which had taken U.S. and Afghan forces under fire. Perched on the fort's high walls, Afghan soldiers cheered wildly as three clouds of dark smoke rose where the 500-pound bombs had struck. The U.S. Army's Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gormach is named after ...

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