Air Force's air refueling community were already deployed across the globe 'building airbridges' that would eventually make the start of OEF a success. 7, 2001, mobility Airmen associated with the U.S. Even before the start of Operation Enduring Freedom on Oct.

Unless, of course, what is meeting the eye is a giant.ĭid you have any supernatural encounters, or things you can’t explain, while on deployment? Send your tale to. Sometimes, as they say, there is more than meets the eye. Never told anyone about it before but it has stayed with me over all these years.”

I don’t know of anyone else who saw anything like it. Kept looking around, especially near the compounds. “Wasn’t in a hurry at all but was aware of what was happening around it. “Just looked like it was walking,” he wrote in Orton’s post. “It wasn’t in any hurry, and I followed it for about 5min (sic) before it went out of my (field of vision),” the officer recalled, adding that he suspected the giant to be about 12 feet tall, or 14 feet, according to its Tinder profile. By lasing the compound, the officer estimated the giant to be about 1,800 meters away. It was lanky and wore unusual clothing, he said. He stood up and walked over to a mud hut that he had to bend way over to get in.” (Giant) Men at Workįinally, an Australian army officer who was on sentry duty in the country’s Uruzgan province recalled spotting a giant going for a leisurely stroll around a nearby compound. “This guy made the rest of the dudes look like children in terms of height. “After about 20 minutes, what we thought were two dudes huddled together under a blanket stood up,” the airman wrote.

(Air Force)Īnother airman recalled doing a “pre-OP soak” northeast of the Korengal Valley, where he scanned and analyzed real-time video feeds.Īccording to his elaborate account, the airman watched “some dudes” around a fire to see if he could identify any weapons. To the surprise of none, bewildered Pentagon officials told Snopes they had no record of such an incident.ĭo paranormal mysteries reside in the mountains of Afghanistan? Probably not, according to science.

It was never seen again.Ĭonspiracy theorists promoting the story prompted the fact-checking outlet Snopes to investigate in 2016. As the story goes, the soldiers loaded the giant’s corpse onto a helicopter. service member with a spear only to be vanquished by the rest of the unit courtesy of “30 seconds of sustained gunfire,” according to an account on. Upon contact, the giant purportedly killed one U.S. It sported a shock of flaming red hair, had six fingers on each hand and two rows of teeth for gnashing, thrashing and showcasing a smile that was undeniably dashing.

(Army)Ĭhief among those terrifying encounters was an incident in 2002 with the “Giant of Kandahar,” a “Biblical cryptid” creature that special forces stumbled upon as the giant was doing giant things like cooking giant food and minding his giant business.Īccording to online accounts, the Giant of Kandahar, who was said to be responsible for an entire patrol going missing, stood a towering 13 feet tall. No indication of whether they were fleeing a giant or not. special forces are extracted from a mountain in Zabul province, Afghanistan, in 2010.

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