The Most Bizarre Close-Combat Strike Ever
4,276Under a dark Afghan sky, September 17, 2010, at a remote patrol base in Babaji, Helmand, the night was alive with the relentless roar of gunfire.
Sergeant Dipprasad Pun crouched behind the sandbags of his rooftop position, alone in the fortified sangar. The elevated post had become the epicenter of a fierce assault. Muzzle flashes lit up the darkness from all sides as Pun returned fire, one soldier against an advancing force of Taliban fighters.
He heard a scraping sound, faint but growing louder—someone was climbing the tower.
Pun snapped his head to the noise, his pulse spiking. A Taliban soldier was pulling himself up.
Sergeant Pun’s heart raced. With fierce precision, he lined up the shot, squeezed the trigger, and dropped him. Before he could take a second to think, another Taliban fighter was almost already on the roof, his AK47 ready at hand and aimed at Pun.
Pun swung his rifle toward him—Click.
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