Before Doug Wankel could do anything in Uruzgan, he had to talk to the Dutch.
Wankel was on his back, and both his legs were pinned under the vehicle.
Wankel, who is sixty-one and has piercing blue eyes, was stationed in Kabul as a young D.
They'd lived through more than one "revolutionary" power train--Wankel engines, gas-turbine engines, batteries.
The last serious attempt, Felix Wankel's rotary engine, lingers on in Mazda's sports cars and is also used to power snowmobiles.
Wankel and Trammell and a group of men, guns drawn, walked down into the fields below, a checkerboard of green wheat and luxuriant poppies.
They stumbled toward us, clutching plastic water bottles and their gear, and were introduced to Doug Wankel, who led the way down the hill.
Limping, but managing without crutches, Doug Wankel reappeared the next morning.
Wankel apologized, then commented that it was only one small section.
The councillor told Wankel that he would not accompany the men if they went on that side of the road, nor could he guarantee their safety.
Before he could continue, Wankel cut him off, and announced that President Karzai and the Afghan minister of defense had been informed about the attack on the team.
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Someone brought a stretcher, and Wankel, managing a pained smile, was carefully loaded onto it and carried to one of the choppers, which would fly him to the Tirin Kot base.
Wankel had attended a shura, or council of local elders, a few days before, to explain the mission, and a small group of local Pashtun policemen were on hand, but the A.E.
Wankel had flown in from Kabul five days earlier to meet with the governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Hakim Munib, about the eradication operation, only to discover that Munib had left for Kabul the day before.
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