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True Stories
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Supporting Our Troops
We can think of no greater honor than to know that when the men and women of our nation's armed forces put their lives on the line, they choose SureFire flashlights to accompany them into battle. Here are their accounts of how SureFire's products fared in the face of danger.
| Infrared Filter Deflects Armor-Piercing Bullet |
While on a raid mission in Afghanistan, we were ambushed. I directed our gun truck to the left flank in the mountains to keep the Taliban fighters from surrounding us and cut off their flanking movement. A hail of small arms fire, machinegun fire, and rocket-propelled grenades ensued. The fight lasted almost three hours, until we finally broke free and moved on toward our objective.
When it was all said and done, my truck was riddled with bullet holes-- all in the area of where I'd been standing. We pulled armor-piercing bullets out of the glass in the windshield, and I later noticed that the infrared filter of my SureFire was missing. I didn't think anything of it until the next morning when, after further investigation of the battle damage, I realized an enemy armor-piercing bullet had glanced off the side of my light and through my shirt sleeve, finally embedding itself into the windshield of the truck. My little SureFire may have saved my life.
The light still works. It was on my M4 on the left side Picatinny Rail. The bullet apparently hit the filter and glanced off the side of the head of the light, through my shirt, and into the windshield. I still have the bullet, too — just to remember that my SureFire kept it out of me. Thanks for not cutting corners and building a tough product for tough scrapes.
SSG Frederick D.
160th L.R.S., Afghanistan
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