WILLS ROBINSON
Sergeant Nicholas Ranstad was twenty minutes into a nap when his spotter woke him up.
Four Taliban fighters were 1.28 miles away from the hut where the Army specialist sniper was living in Kunar Province in northeastern Afghanistan.
If the insurgents had looked more carefully, they would have seen white marks on boulders beside them. Ranstad, a 28-year-old Florida native, had been using them for target practice for weeks.
Now, however, his AK-47-wielding target could shoot back while they were surveilling the U.S. traffic checkpoint.
Nick Ranstad set up on top of a Afghanistan Border Patrol (ABP) hut and got into the prone position.
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