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This is episode two of Beyond Today's Special Series Deadliest Day, and I'm Claire Reed.

If you're just joining the series, go back and listen to

episode one first. This is all going to make a lot more sense. We're going to pick

up the story just after we left off, and we'll let the platoon tell it. The

descriptions in this episode are pretty graphic but this is what happened is the

reality of war. Over to Pash.

Friday 10th of July.

Juma means Friday.

An awful day, a terrible day.

Patrol went out with the O.C.

That's a company commander.

We started off in the Wishton here, in the Fob, Wishton,

and we came down onto the Wishtonazaar Road and we knew very well that sort of, you know, a few hundred meters down the road, there were some potential IDs that we'd picked up on a previous patrol.

So we ended up sort of cutting, I think through these compounds here.

Our aim really was to sort of get down here where we were going to do a joint patrol with the Afghan army.

So that involved three platoons going out on operation and I was in the first squad we went down this giant hill like a

giant wadi like a it was really steep it's probably like 50 meters subsurface

from where we was originally.

So we went down there next thing,

two section must have moved into position.

But as we made our way down past these compounds we'd go one way we'd find an IED so we'd be

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