Operation Pineapple Express - NYT Bestseller - Chapter 4 - A Life or Death Decision

"NDS Safe House Helmand Province. August 8th, 2021 Kazem lit a cigarette. He sat slump backed in an abandoned clinic looking at his two wounded fighters. Their hell for leather escape from the base in Nimruz had been successful, but they had taken fire. The fighters groans, echoed off the dingy walls. They were in bad shape.

Their wounds still bled and infection was sure to set in, but the shelves of the clinic had been raided and stripped bare. There was nothing, no medicine, no morphine, not even a bandage. The security infrastructure had crumbled overnight. He took a long drag from his cigarette. The youngest fighter had multiple gunshot wounds to his legs.

Kazem knelt beside him and placed his hand on his head. He addressed both of the wounded. I can't take you with me. You know that. It will slow us down and will all be killed. So you have two choices. He took another pull from his smoke and exhaled slowly. I can dig two holes in the desert out back. I'll make it quick. I'll make it honorable. No more pain. Or you can try to keep living, but you'll have to do exactly what I say. We want to live commander, the second man said Kazem them nodded and walked out the door into the sunlight."

This is an exerpt from the audio version of the recently released New York Times bestselling book, Operation Pineapple Express--the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan by Lt. Col (Ret) Scott Mann.

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