Rocket Attack in Afghanistan HD

This is a video I waited to release until a bit after I got home so as to not worry the wife and mother and is an illustration of a rocket attack on a large forward operating base (FOB). Rocket attacks at the FOB I was stationed out of in Afghanistan were quite frequent. The insurgents got close a couple times even injuring some soldiers. The general area that my office was in just happened to have a higher frequency of rockets getting close. One time I was on tower guard and saw a couple rockets hit maybe 500 meters from our office and thought that was close. While I was there I can't even count how many rocket attacks we had and some were scarier than others. Some attacks had 3-5 rockets sometimes 7-10. I guess it depended on how much the Taliban felt like they could get away with that day. There were many nights that I spent several hours in a bunker, sometimes at night in the rain and usually with some civilian journalist. The video I have posted below was the only rocket attack I kind of got on video. The other angle happened to be shot at the same time and I happened to know the soldier who shot it. The rocket I recorded was maybe 100 meters from our bunker. The rocket that hit before I turned on my camera was about 50 meters from where my interpreter and I were standing with nothing between us and it but a road. There's pretty much one thing you can do in those moments; pray the rockets don't hit you or any other soldiers and pray that our choppers and artillery get the guys firing at us.

Produced and Edited by Robert A. Ham