4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division

The 4th BCT consisted of: The brigade's first deployment was to multinational Regional Command East in Afghanistan, from January 2007 through March 2008.

The brigade conducted counter-insurgency operations in RC East, and provided an infantry battalion as the theater reserve force.

SPC Monica Brown became the second woman since World War II to earn the Silver Star for gallantly saving the lives of fellows soldiers during an ambush in Paktika Province on April 25, 2007.

S-2 analysts observed that the most intense attacks occurred between 0900 and 1000 on Wednesdays, after paydays, leading the Brigade to conclude the people that they were paying to work on local road projects were actually insurgents buying the rockets with that money.

By November 2007, the Americans had a pretty good notion as to the points of origin of the fire and came up with a plan to eliminate the IDF team.

At November 11, 2007, the six man team inserted by blacked-out humvees to within about 7 kilometers of the planned engagement area in the dark.

The U.S. team spent the next two-and-a-half days either crawling to relieve themselves a few meters away or alternating between the prone position, lying on their sides, or laying on their backs.

The Americans engaged the Taliban IDF element with sound suppressed sniper rifles, M249 machine gun, and indirect artillery fire.