Caught in Taliban Bomb Trap

“You couldn’t be safer than in this baby," the Major told reporter Nick Meo, taking him aboard an armored 13-ton Cougar at the head of a National Guard night convoy from Kandahar to Helmand in Afghanistan. At the wheel was a New Yorker driving a Cougar for the first time. Another New Yorker manned the heavy machine gun on top. One of them would soon be dead.