Lone Airman at Combat Outpost Keating recounts enemy attack

FORWARD OPERATING BASE BOSTICK, Afghanistan -- Staff Sgt. Matthew McMurtrey, a JET Airman from the 755th Air Expeditionary Group, based at Bagram Airfield, was attached to the Army’s 3rd Squadron, 61st Calvary, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division at Combat Outpost Keating. His job there was to set up and maintain a satellite system used to provide Soldiers with internet accessibility. While at COP Keating he found himself in the middle of an attack by hundreds of insurgents armed with assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Jung)

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