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There were still sounds from the vents refreshing the air. de Panshir Base, Pashtia, 3/6/467With the noonday sun high overhead, the valley was bathed in stifling heat. The decision to pack and issue the ammunition in drums, rather than to issue accountable magazines andloose or stripper clipped ammunition to individual soldiers was a difficult one for ZMI and BAC. They'd laid out for him and the marchioness a bedrollof stacked rugs and provided blankets.

(The Legion tended toignore the rule on frangible ammunition when dealing with its irregular adversaries. A dozen helicopters passed, turned a few miles to the north, and began to set down their loads on abarren and fairly flat hilltop. This is important . Were they rough men? Yes and so was he.