31.   The pilot then hovers over the landing zone while troop-carrying helicopters land, deposit their Marines and fly away.

32.   The U.S. soldiers on the ground also guided the choppers to a safe landing zone away possible hostile fire, Detoyato said.

33.   Then the mujahedeen would position machine guns and RPGs around the landing zone.

34.   Winds carried both divers about two miles east of their intended landing zone.