This is Jockel Podcast number 326 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

Throughout October 30th and 31st, 2011, in furtherance of the Drug Enforcement Administration's

Drug Law Enforcement Mission in Afghanistan, special agents of the DEA's foreign deployed

advisory support or fast team conducted counter-narcotics, counter-insurgency operations with their

police partners from the Afghan National Interdiction Unit assisted by the Australian Defense

Forces.

The task force departed their base via four helicopters as part of a mission to execute

Afghan drug warrants and to search for narcotics, caches, and heroin production labs.

The team began to search the target area and accompanying opium bazaar when they began

to receive sporadic incoming enemy fire.

They accomplished their assigned duties and then maneuvered to the extraction location

all while under sporadic enemy fire.

When the task force arrived at the helicopter landing zones, they continued to receive

effective enemy fire.

One of the four helicopters was forced to make an additional orbit and subsequently land

in the vicinity of special agents, Pier Santé, Johnson, Vanderbilt, Harris, Stewart, Fisher,

Portinga, and five members from the Australian Special Forces.

This helicopter landed under fire.

Special agent, Per Santé, laid down suppressive fire, which enabled special agent, Stewart,

Harris, and Fisher to board the helicopter.

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