Special Combat Story from Shok Valley Afghanistan: Green Beret Survives Multiple Enemy Gunshots
[Kris Osborn]
Kris Osborn
Wednesday at 11:12 AM
Former Green Beret Dillon Behr said being shot in the hip "was like being struck by a car or baseball bat and being electrocuted at the same time."
A distant, flashing image of blue sky, rolling mountains and snowy rivers visited itself upon an injured soldier flying away from a violent firefight on the ground below – just barely beyond view from the naked eye.
This vivid, yet paradoxical scene is what former Green Beret Dillon Behr recalls seeing when looking down in a weary, half-conscious state from a Black Hawk helicopter while being evacuated from a near-death combat encounter in the mountains of Afghanistan.
“I was able to look back in the valley below and see a lot of my team mates still there fighting. It was a beautiful scene from a distance, yet what had just happened down below was basically hell on earth,” Behr explained.
http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1721981-shok-valley-green-beret-survives-ambush
