The Americans were pinned down, lying prone among sunflower stalks as they took rocket fire from Russian positions across the fields. Then, mortar burst in the air above them. All seven of Delta Team were wounded, some repeatedly.
“I remember looking at one sunflower that was taller than the weeds while I was holding pressure on Dubs’ wounds, thinking we are all going to bleed out and die here,” said “Tango”, the Delta Team medic who was hit with shrapnel four times. One of the 24 shards that entered his body and sliced into the sciatic nerve in his leg.
