On May 21, 2014, an assault force made up of soldiers from the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and members of the Afghan Border Police embarked on a clearing mission in a mountainous area of Kandahar Province.
Their objective was an insurgent bomb-making factory hidden inside a cave. The Afghan police officers, descending the mountain ahead of their American comrades, reached the cave first and found it occupied by enemy fighters. A gun battle erupted. The Americans called for close-air support before advancing into the fray. Technical Sgt. Kristopher Parker, an Air Force team leader and bomb technician assigned to the 466th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight, destroyed four bomb caches along the route leading to the mouth of the cave. Then his EOD team came under heavy enemy fire.
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Source: Coffee or Die Magazine