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A deafening noise. An awful lurching sensation. Impact. Dust obscuring everything. And the sight of injured men, blood and shattered equipment. Groaning, cussing and, from the most badly injured, a deathly silence.
That was the view from inside a U.S. Army blastproof truck I was riding in, in Logar province, Afghanistan, on March 19. An improvised explosive device exploded under the front of the vehicle, sheering off one axle, hurling the truck a dozen feet and hurting five of the seven occupants. Only myself and an Army medic, sitting in the rearmost seats, walked away unscathed.