Chad Carswell was barely 18 when insurgents in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom took aim at his KC-135 refueling aircraft—essentially, a giant gas tank with wings—with him and other Air Force crewmen aboard.
He described a chaotic scene in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, and the moment he realized the only way to thwart a deadly and fiery explosion was to try to access guns that were locked up in a vehicle 10 feet away.
