Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in February 2007 at Fort Drum, New York. The interviews are fairly wide ranging in the topics covered but all center around one particularly memorable event for the soldier being interviewed, such as an ambush, a patrol, a firefight, a helicopter crash, or a hero ceremony. This transcript is from the interview with Staff Sergeant John Bickford, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, conducted on 23 February 2007. The other interviews conducted by Cubbison can be found at the transcripts for Brigadier General James Terry, First Lieutenant Justin L. Sax, First Lieutenant Jorgensen, Sergeant First Class Connors, Sergeant First Class Eban Duer III, Sergeant First Class Hunsacker, Staff Sergeant Anthony Nilon, Sergeant Jemon Calhoun, Specialist Joe Mattie, and Specialist Edward J. Vasquez.

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