Stars and Stripes but it does seem to be a WaPo article:
The frantic effort to save lives after a deadly attack on the CIA in Afghanistan
Surgeon Joshua Alley at Centra Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia. It has been 10 years since he and his military colleagues tried to save lives after an attack on the CIA in Khost, Afghanistan.
By IAN SHAPIRA | The Washington Post | Published: December 30, 2019
Joshua Alley and two medical colleagues were getting ready to watch "The Hangover" at their military hospital in eastern Afghanistan when the loudspeaker blared with the worst possible code: Shamrock Black! Shamrock Black!
Alley, an Air Force surgeon from Virginia stationed at Forward Operating Base Salerno, felt confused. Had there been a firefight? A rocket attack? He'd heard no commotion. Shamrock Black meant one thing: His one-story hospital in Khost was going to receive four or more trauma victims. Moments later on Dec. 30, 2009, more intel: An explosion had hit the adjacent Camp Chapman, a small base he'd never visited and knew only as the locale of CIA operatives and other military personnel.
Chapman was just a couple of miles away, so the injured would arrive quickly. Alley, then 33, didn't know it yet, but he was about to be swept into one of the most tragic days in modern CIA history.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/the-frantic-effort-to-save-lives-after-a-deadly-attack-on-the-cia-in-afghanistan-1.612940
Lengthy article.
