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He had done three tours over a period of four years, all with Air units that went to the front lines and brought the wounded back to field hospitals. His mission officer had been killed when one of the Afghanistan forces had hidden a grenade on himself to blow up the chopper. When the MO searched him and found it before he was placed on the bird, the guy detonated it. This was within the first month that this poor guy was in country.