Everything seemed to happen in slow-motion. It was like the shock when you jump into a freezing cold ocean. ‘I was aware I was airborne but felt all the air had been sucked from me. I felt a definite click under my right foot, there was a searing heat and a flash of the brightest white light you can imagine. ‘The Americans and Afghans disagreed on our course of action so we paused and I turned to chat to one of the US sergeants. The previous afternoon we’d been ambushed a couple of hundred yards from the camp so we set out on foot to investigate. ‘I remember every single second as if it were happening now,’ he says of the day when he joined six members of the US Army’s 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment on patrol with six Afghan National Army soldiers.
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