10 years after Wanat: Army leaders should look to this battle to prepare for brutal fights in the fu

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10 years after Wanat: Army leaders should look to this battle to prepare for brutal fights in the future
By: Todd South  

The attack began with a single burst of machine gun fire, followed by a score of rocket-propelled grenades. For the next 90 minutes, a platoon of U.S. soldiers and a handful of reinforcements would fight off a wave of more than 100 Taliban fighters.

A decade ago, the men of Chosen Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade came under attack near the end of a brutal and demanding deployment in the Kunar and Nuristan provinces of Afghanistan.

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