With their Humvees in a circular formation, everyone but the vehicle gunners now dismounted. Wynn and Cooke stood inside in the middle, the soldiers forming a half-circle before them. The truck motors were off so the gunners could hear the plan.
Wynn started by explaining Amir’s report, then said, “Clearly we have little to go on, but I’ve got enough confidence in Amir’s credibility to think we have to check out this lead.”
When Wynn had spoken to CPT Bauman, the CO had offered to request helicopter gunship support. During the Wolfhound’s drive down, HQ had confirmed an air team, with a call sign of Sledgehammer, would be on stand-by.
“We don’t have much of a description of the location. All we got out of Amir was a general description of the place. And he said it had a bronze-colored p
