{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Inside the Fight by National Guardsmen to Repel a Terrorist Attack in Somalia","description":"In late 2019, an explosion rumbled across a remote vista in Somalia, disturbing the low brush and red-brown dirt surrounding a lonely American airfield. It rattled the bolts of the decades-old base and buckled the knees of the National Guard soldiers tasked with defending it. Capt. London Nagai \u2013 the commander of the unit \u2013 and his Charlie Troopers knew the attack was coming. A truck, up-armored and sickly yellow against its trailing dust cloud, broke off from the group. Unbeknownst to the soldiers inside the base, that truck carried one of the largest known vehicle-borne explosive devices on the African continent. And it was bound for them. In 2019, as rumbles about the Global War on Terror ending, regular troops \u2013 many of whom are police officers, fire fighters, college students, and delivery drivers in their civilian jobs \u2013 found themselves at the tip of that long, gnarled spear that many Americans don\u2019t realize is firmly planted in the near center of Somalia. Appearing in this episode: Drew F. Lawrence, Capt. London Nagai, Dr. Tricia Brown, W.J. Hennigan, the soldiers of C Troop, Rebecca Kheel, and Steve Beynon ","author_name":"Fire Watch | A Military.com Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.military.com\/podcasts\/fire-watch","html":"