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• 1.2-7
• 7. Pa knew I was living at Knights Hill, knew what I was up to. And he was just down the road atSandringham on an extended visit. And yet he never dro...
• 2.2-8
• 8. England was in the semifinal of the 2007 Rugby World Cup. No one had predicted that. No onehad believed England was any good this time round, and n...
• 3.2-9
• 9. One month later I went to RAF Brize Norton and boarded a C-17. There were dozens of othersoldiers on the plane, but I was the only stowaway. With h...
• 4.2-10
• 10. At the center of Dwyer was a towering spike, a kind of makeshift Nelsons Column. Nailed to itwere dozens of arrows, pointing every which way, each...
• 5.2-11
• 11. Dwyers ops room was a box wrapped in desert camo. The floor was thick black plastic made ofinterlinked pieces, like a jigsaw puzzle. It made a wei...
• 6.2-12
• 12. The Rover had an alternative name, because everything in the Army needed an alternative name. Kill TV. As in: Whatcha doing? Just watching a bit o...
• 7.2-13
• 13. After receiving permission to cross my airspace, a pilot wouldnt always cruise on through, hedarrow through, and sometimes his need to know condit...
• 8.2-14
• 14. At times I worried that I was actually missing out on the real war. Was I perhaps sitting in thewars waiting room? The real war, I feared, was jus...
• 9.2-15
• 15. My job at Delhi was similar to the one Id had at Dwyer. Only the hours were different. Constant. At Delhi I was on call, day and night. The ops ro...
• 10.2-16
• 16. I got promoted, sort of. To a small lookout high above the battlefield. For quite some time thelookout had been driving the Taliban mad. We had it...