In this episode of The Spear, MWI’s John Amble is joined by Major Tyson Walsh. In 2013, he was deployed in Afghanistan. After the base where his unit lived and worked was closed, they moved to Bagram Airfield—the largest US and coalition base in the country. Life on Bagram can feel very far from the violence taking place outside its heavily guarded walls—like an island of security on an otherwise chaotic battlefield. But inside those walls is where the story Tyson tells in this episode happened—a story of hand-to-hand combat.

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Note: This episode was originally released in 2019.

Image credit: Sgt. Melissa N. Lessard, US Army