I love you, I won't kill you

"Hey, I have to go. I promise you, I will definitely be back." Amanda, who was wearing the combat uniform of the Marine Corps' winter jungle digital camouflage, sat on the edge of the bed and lowered her head to kiss Julie on the cheek.

Admiring the sleeping girl with a smile without saying a word, Amanda stood up and carefully put an octagonal patrol cap on her head.Bending down to pick up the green marching rucksack on the floor, he stared at Julie lying on the bed again.

The moment he turned around and walked out of the room, a familiar voice came from behind, "Hey, where are you going?"

"Afghanistan."

"When did this happen?"

"Well, before Thanksgiving. I'm sorry I didn't tell you when you came to camp."

Julie stepped forward and hugged Amanda's body from behind, her cheek pressed tightly against her back, "Everything will be fine. Well, you won't be participating in military operations on the ground this time, right?"

When Amanda heard Julie's words, she shook her head with a smile and turned around, "No, now I'm the co-pilot of AH-1W. If you're really worried about me, why don't you think about how I should avoid the Taliban militants Those RPG rockets, SAM SAMs, Stinger SAMs..."

"Really? The Taliban militants have so many weapons that they can shoot down your helicopter?"

"Take it easy, Julie, I'll be fine."

After going out, putting the luggage in the trunk, getting into the cab of the Shelby GT500, and backing the car out of the driveway on the right side of the apartment, Amanda looked at Julie standing at the door again from inside the car.

Follow the U-shaped highway in front of the apartment, and quickly drive on Vandergrift Avenue, which extends northward all the way, to the first destination after Thanksgiving - the Marine Corps Camp Pendleton Airport.

"Hey, Lieutenant, good morning." Jon greeted Amanda who just got out of the car with a smile on his face.

"Good morning, Captain." Amanda saluted Jon.

"How was Thanksgiving yesterday?"

"Good. Turkey, pumpkin pie, gin, and finally the squadron let's get us past Thanksgiving."

"It's all right, lieutenant. This time I went to Afghanistan, the squadron's 'Hueys' have all been replaced with new 'Yankees' (another name for UH-1Y helicopters). Plus our AH-1W... .”

Amanda said, "Captain, our AH-1W is like a granny going to war to the Yankees."

Captain Jon Grove laughed, "That's right, Lieutenant, you're right."

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"Operation Enduring Freedom" is a military operation that took several years to succeed after the outbreak of the 911/[-] incident.

Beginning on October 2001, 10, with the heavy carpet bombing by the United States, Britain and other countries and the cooperation of the Afghan anti-Taliban alliance, the Taliban regime was defeated steadily.Until December 7, the Taliban handed over their last position - Kandahar, marking the complete end of the Taliban regime's rule in Afghanistan.

In 2006, the Taliban made a comeback by planting poppies (opium), and regained half of southern Afghanistan from the hands of the United States and NATO.In southern Afghanistan, any area without U.S. and NATO allied forces is a "safe zone" where Taliban militants often haunt, and grow opium in exchange for weapons and other supplies.

Today, more than 90% of the world's opium comes from poppies grown in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.As one of the important bases of the Taliban, Helmand Province is the focus area for the US and British forces to attack the Taliban.

However, 8 years later, the war is still going on.The Taliban has not disappeared because of this, and its members continue to fight against the current Afghan government, the United States and other countries that support the United States by kidnapping hostages and launching terrorist attacks.

In order to combat the increasingly rampant Taliban and militants in western and southern Afghanistan, Amanda and her captain, Captain Jon Grove, were deployed to Helman in southern Afghanistan as two members of a plan to increase troops to Afghanistan. Texas.

Because the AH-1W attack helicopters they fly will be combined with the UH-1Y "Venom" helicopters, an upgraded version of the UH-1N "Huey" light helicopters, to form a new squadron of light attack helicopters and become the Marine Corps ground force in Hull. A vital air support force in counter-insurgency operations in Mandap Province.

Amanda had been at Camp Bastion, where the 12th Light Attack Helicopter Squadron is based in Helmand province, in early December.During these two weeks, as the "machine gunner" and co-pilot of an AH-367W attack helicopter, she and the main pilot, Captain Grove, performed the highest-intensity and countless air support missions in history.

在过去的14天里，她所在的飞行中队飞行时间总和已达到了1000个小时。一天24小时、一周7天、不分白天黑夜，几乎每小时就会有2至3架中队所属直升机从驻地升空而起。

Normally, when the UH-1Y helicopter is ordered to provide fire support to ground forces engaged in fire combat, the AH-1W will provide it with air surveillance tasks in the nearby airspace.

When the marines in the ground forces are injured and the ground forces call the UH-1Y helicopter to pick up the wounded for treatment, the AH-1W provides air fire cover for them.

When the CH-53 heavy helicopters of the heavy helicopter squadron perform the flight missions of medical rescue and transportation of materials, AH-1W provides escort missions for them.

In any case, Amanda was doing the most important thing in this military operation in Afghanistan from beginning to end.That is, when the main driver Jon at the back confirmed and locked on the ground or air targets that could be fired, she fired one of the 1 "Hellfire" missiles mounted under the short wings on both sides of the AH-8W towards the target.

Or, directly use the M197 three-barreled 20mm "Gatling" rotary cannon in the center of the turret under the nose, aim at the target and fire a long series of amazing flames at a rate of fire of 750 rounds per minute.

She knew that no matter whether the other party was driving a Toyota pickup truck or any other lightly armored vehicle, they would be torn to pieces by the 20mm armor-piercing cannon.Anyway, after using the rotary cannon, she couldn't see a living person or a complete vehicle from the pile of shattered debris.

In fact, when this happens, Jon will drive their helicopter directly into the airspace a few kilometers away from the target, and then give Amanda an order to launch missiles to attack the target.

After all, their helicopters can only carry 750 rounds of spare cannon ammunition. If they finish firing these armor-piercing ammunition within 1 minute, I am afraid they will not be able to successfully complete the air fire support mission at that time.

As she stayed at the camp to set off, Jolie feared she would be shot down with rockets by Taliban fighters or members of al Qaeda.Now it seems that this worry seems a bit unnecessary.

Because the Taliban militants will always look for light and heavy transport helicopters that do not have heavy weapons and equipment. In many cases, only one rocket can knock down a US military helicopter.

So, when Amanda and Jon fly the attack helicopter with the UH-1Y light helicopter, the CH-53 heavy helicopter, or provide air support for ground forces, some of the things she often says are...

"Attention, there are militants firing RPG at you at three o'clock!"

"Be careful, there is an RPG flying towards you from the direction of six o'clock!"

"Careful, they're firing a SAM at nine o'clock."

Yes, firing fire, communicating in the air, flying by day or by night with night vision goggles, these actions made up every second of Amanda's 7 months of service in Afghanistan.

During this process, the few physical and mental relaxations come from the communication with the captain, Captain Grove, the communication with the helicopter maintenance personnel, and the communication with these people during work and meals.

As for personal relationship issues, she can only use the little time for fitness, bath time, shopping time and video chat time with domestic relatives every day to vent out.

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