There are battles that make the news. And there are battles that don't — because the men who fought them were operating in places the military doesn't officially acknowledge, doing things that can't be put in a press release.
This is one of those battles.
A small Special Forces element, stranded after a communications failure eliminated any possibility of Quick Reaction Force support, found themselves engaged by successive waves of insurgents in a compound they were never supposed to hold for more than a few hours.
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