Hand-to-Hand Combat

November 22, 2019 01:00:52
Hand-to-Hand Combat
The Spear
Hand-to-Hand Combat

Nov 22 2019 | 01:00:52

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Show Notes

In this episode of The Spear, MWI's John Amble is joined by Maj. Tyson Walsh. In 2013, during a deployment in Afghanistan, he found himself fighting hand to hand against an enemy combatant in an unexpected place: inside the heavily secured Bagram Airfield, the largest US and coalition base in the country. Listen as he tells one of he most intense stories we have featured.

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