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The View From Man Bear Pig by Bing West
National Review 11/23/2009
The View From Man Bear Pig
By Bing West
Outpost Man Bear Pig
After the AK rounds cracked over the sandbags, Sgt. Robert Kightlinger, 23, of Jackson, Calif., muttered “Insolent bastards” and led a dozen Marines and Afghan soldiers outside the wire in pursuit. Leaving behind six Marines to guard this isolated outpost in Helmand province, they bounded across dry poppy fields and soon found cartridges dropped by the shooters. A kilometer farther on, their attackers stopped to fire from a mosque. The mosque was off-limits unless the Marines could positively identify an enemy holding a rifle. Instead of providing the Marines with that opportunity, the shooters slipped away.
As we walked back, Sergeant Kightlinger bumped into a prominent local farmer. “When those Taliban cut across your fields, they put your family in danger,” Kightlinger said. “Tell them to stay away or point them out to me — right now!”
“I can’t,” the farmer pleaded, drawing a finger across his neck before hurrying away.
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