Staff Sergeant William Bee, without wearing a helmet or Kevlar vest, aims at a window from where he feared a Talbian sniper was positioned. Seconds later his world was plunged into darkness. The sequence of images taken in Garmsir, Afghanistan, on May 18, 2008, would become one of the most iconic from the War on Terror. The bullet missed his head by inches and caused the sandbank in front of him to explode, but his comrades of the 24th Expeditionary Unit thought he had been hit. His fellow Mari
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Staff Sergeant William Bee Pictures
