In October 2011, a small British patrol walked into a coordinated Taliban ambush in Nahr-e-Saraj, Helmand Province — fire from three directions, no cover, and fighters closing in. What happened next became one of the most extraordinary acts of close-quarters combat in the entire Afghan campaign. Corporal Sean Jones fixed bayonets, asked his men if they were ready, and charged across open ground into the guns.
This is the full story — the mission, the ambush, the charge, and the moral decision made at the end of it that no citation fully captured.

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