and afraid to return to Afghanistan. “Even if you manage to buy a spare part or fix a Humvee in such dire conditions, you can do it for 10 to 12 Humvees, not 100 or 200 Humvees,” Mr Taban says.

But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Humvee's mission changed. It was deployed to the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan, where US commanders quickly discovered that it was dangerously ...

This feeling was agony. It was a long way from the Cascade foothills of his hometown of Monroe, Washington, to the top of a Humvee turret in Bakwa, Afghanistan, and on that day, August 6 ...

and afraid to return to Afghanistan. “Even if you manage to buy a spare part or fix a Humvee in such dire conditions, you can do it for 10 to 12 Humvees, not 100 or 200 Humvees,” Mr Taban says. As a ...