European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 stars and stripes Mideast edition july 2007 spartans think fast during militant attack dusk firefight at vulnerable Afghanistan base leaves one wounded by Mark stars and stripes fire base Afghanistan the firefight lasted themselves As soon As hit immediately was staff Ramon a 32yearold father of four and the spartan third squad wounded in the an and by the thankful head and left pinned Down by Only one Man was just before 8 24 men from the 2nd 503rd Parachute infantry regi ments company spartan Pla by fire and too dazed to he Man Down Man Down and waited for As bullets made the dust around their feet come Kyj Cul via t Toon were hit hard from multiple Daniel closely Fol locations by Small arms Lowed by Aron and rocket propelled grenade picked up Padilla and moved him with the spartans were 12 Ghan National army troops and two american sitting almost meters High on a Steep Hill in the Koran Gal River Valley in Eastern of above the towns of a Ali bad and Phoe he was my squad Leader and he was Richardson humbly said i didst think about he was in the open pinned i needed to move him to cover and get him treat up and talking the entire shortly after Nix might not Rise far its surrounded on All sides by receiving first Hills and Ridge it he Wos my squad Aid from his lines almost Leader and he Wos 250 meters fire on sunday was coming from the East and and from near places Nick named table nipple Rock and Hon Cho intelligence from the Pla Toon of 10th Mountain Divi Sion infantry whom i didst think about he was in the open pinned i needed to move him to cover and get him f f Daniel Richardson after pulling his wounded staff Ramon undercover Padil la was on his Way Down the in route to Jalapa bad air Field and the 173rd airborne Bri Gade combat team medical assets in the con trolled chaos that followed padillas re the men began sorting out whose weapon or helmet was photos by Mark and stripes above a cot lies destroyed after Rifle fire ripped through a nearby Wall monday during a firefight at fire base Phoenix in the Koran Gal River top right spartan platoons painted by Vinny adorns a Wall in the room that was damaged during the right Carl cleans his hours after he and other members of his platoon came under intense said the spartans enemy fighters farther up the Val Ley liked to attack at after being on Phoenix nearly two months and seeing Only one Small whose and re supplying each other with ammo and every Man firing hundreds of As platoon Leader 1st Matt some of the spartans had begun jew Headquarters and watching to wonder whether having every above staff Matthew Man pulling Security was Worth the second squad Leader it and senior enlisted Man but sure 10 minutes be led me men on me lower portion fore the troops manned their Posi me Dase All hell broke Piosa said because Many of the running to get their helmets spartan senior enlisted leaders and body men were Don including the platoon sergeant Ning each others protecting were away on other men like and Brendan stepped up and took being hit that hard that everything was Simon but that How it goes Down with a situation like we everyone handled it for More than two hours after the and under cover of dark the men with Simon monitored draws and spurs with night vision looking for enemy when men carry ing flickering flashlights were seen less than 50 meters from Phoenix and in locations enemy fighters have been Simon was Given the godhead to Tell his men to the lights went it was Only the second time Phoenix has been hit directly since the spartans moved though the men have taken fire on Many of their because of the the spar tans said its almost impossible to Tell How Many enemy fighters there were or still Are in the Val and that if s relatively easy for them to crawl up Over a Ridgel Ine and Spray and Pray or make More coordinated efforts like those Simon said because some re cent spartan patrols have been in territory the enemies deem their they might be becoming More and even though the militants wounded Only one radio chatter might claim they killed As Many As 45 to boost their As Phoenix is the southernmost outpost for company its in one of the most dangerous Padilla is the second spartan who has been Timothy the son of 173rd sergeant major com Mand isaia was killed on june email Mark  coalition raid kills Taliban 2 afghan children the associated press Afghanistan coalition and afghan troops conducting a night time raid killed a Taliban Leader monday but also two children caught in the Cross a spokesman in the Taliban fighters ambushed a police patrol Over the and the subsequent Battle left six police and 12 Mili Tants said Kandahar provincial police chief Sayed Agha during the raid of the Home in Eastern Pattia suspected militants fired guns and rocket propelled grenades at the coalition and afghan forcing troops to return two children were killed in the said Donald a coalition when someone shoots at you with an youre going to return Korpi its very sad and we hate to see any civilian especially a we had no indication whatsoever there were kids in the mid level Leader killed in the raid was identified As commander whom the accused of having attacked afghan and foreign a woman in Side Sale Ems House also was wounded in the crossfire and evacuated for the coalition civilian deaths in Afghanistan has been a recurring theme this president Hamid Karzai has repeatedly asked inter National forces to do All they can to avoid such and and nato command ers say they frequently withhold fire if they think their attack will cause civilian but that they Reserve the right to defend in Kandahar Taliban fighters ambushed police travelling Between Thorak and Maiwand on spark ing a six hour Saqib about 20 Taliban fighters were wounded in the in he and several police Are Saqib said a Large number of Taliban launched the attack but he didst give num elsewhere in Kandahar Tali ban fighters beheaded two civilians they accused of being spies for the government or Saqib in the insurgents fired mortars at a Village in Kunar killing a boy and wounding eight other including five nato a nato statement said the 10yearold boy died after two mor tar rounds hit a Village in Nari District on the statement the attack also left five soldiers and three afghan civilians it nato did not release the nationalities of the wounded but most of the troops in that Region Are the wounded were taken to a military Hospital for violence has risen sharply in recent More than people have died in insurgency related violence this according to an associated press count based on figures from Western and afghan offi