FIGHTING IN SECRET Riding high on a bar stool, sharing a cold beer with some friends in the media/marketing section of a nondefence department recently – many of whom are astute media watchers – I was told, in all seriousness, that “our soldiers in Afghanistan are sitting on a protected base, flying the flag for politics, far from the dangers of any real fighting. Aren’t they?”
AUSSIE SOLDIERS SURVIVE A YEAR AT THE TRIGGER
WORDS BRIAN HARTIGAN PICS ADF
AUSTRALIAN SPECIAL FORCES TASK GROUP OPERATION SLIPPER, AFGHANISTAN Days deployed
395
Days on patrol outside secure base
306
Number of patrols or missions
100+
Number of fights with the enemy
139
Offensive air-support missions called in
217
Australians Killed in Action
0
Australians Wounded in Action
11
WORDS BRIAN HARTIGAN PICS ADF
RARELY A DAY WENT BY WHERE THERE WAS NOT SOME SORT OF CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY
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