Chinook Helicopters Over Afghanistan

Chinook helicopters dropped Capt. Don Canterna's company of soldiers on the dusty outskirts of Musa Qala as evening fell. Loaded down with weapons, food, and water, his men walked through the night. Twelve hours later, daybreak found the 82nd Airborne paratroopers facing a line of mud-brick homes and the first barrage of Taliban bullets fired from hiding places.