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More than a decade later, Nicholas Irving stills can’t shake his close call with death. On his sixth deployment in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, he said he knew it wouldn’t be the usual quiet deployment he had become accustomed to. We got there, and I knew there was going to be a different deployment, despite all the stories we were told about Afghanistan was relatively boring, Irving said. Nothing ever happens in Afghanistan.
In 2009, the reality on the ground was far from boring or quiet. At the time the United States had sent 4,000 troops in the Helmand Province to help regain control from Taliban fighters, who had control over poppy fields in the area and was smuggling opioids to fund their insurgence.
Nicholas Irving with A. J. Tata
NICHOLAS IRVING spent six years in the Army s Special Operations 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment, serving from demolitions assaulter to Master Sniper. He was the first African American to serve as a sniper in his battalion and is now the owner of HardShoot, where he trains personnel in the art of long-range shooting, from Olympians to members of the Spec Ops community. He also appeared as a mentor on the Fox reality show
American Grit and is the
New York Times bestselling author of
The Reaper,
The Way of the Reaper, and a series of military thrillers featuring Vic The Reaper Harwood. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.