Bagram Air Base
Former US air base north of Kabul, Afghanistan. In Range a pararescue commander there decides to stay behind so his team can fly.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein | setting | Captain Lesmes’s pararescue team waited on alert here; in autumn 2009 a 9-line came in for a roadside bomb on a convoy half an hour away… |
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World — David Epstein (2019)
Source: Range · Original · Readwise highlight
As Captain Tony Lesmes described it, his team at Bagram Air Base in northeast Afghanistan only went to work when someone got really unlucky.
- Role: setting
- In the book: Captain Lesmes’s pararescue team waited on alert here; in autumn 2009 a 9-line came in for a roadside bomb on a convoy half an hour away by helicopter. Lesmes decided to stay at the operations center to leave room in the helicopters, and all wounded survived.
- Why it matters: The base is the setting of the chapter’s example of deliberately dropping a sacred tool (togetherness).