Spiller, Harry,  1945- <br/><br/>
The Afghanistan poppy eradication campaign :  accounts from the Black Hawk Counter-Narcotics Infantry Kandak Team in Helmand Province / 
Harry Spiller. 
 - Jefferson, North Carolina :  McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction --  The arrival --  The ambush --  Afghanistan National Army 2 KIAs --  It was 75 meters away --  Within inches --  AT4 round misses compound --  The IEDs --  Smoke signals --  The Black Hawks find the largest IED factory in Afghanistan --  The last days --  Five years later. 
<br/><br/> The 16-man Black Hawk Counter Narcotics Infantry Team served as an advisory and training unit for the Afghanistan National Army during a poppy eradication operation in Helmand province in 2008 and 2009. This book chronicles their mission in a little known theater of the Afghanistan War. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781476628103 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Helmand.<br/>Opium trade--Afghanistan.<br/>Drug traffic--Afghanistan.<br/>Opium poppy--Control--Afghanistan--Helmand.<br/>Military assistance, American--Afghanistan--Helmand.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS371  / .A344 2017