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This story has been corrected JALREZ VALLEY, Wardak Second Lt. Branden Irvine lay awake all night thinking about it. His second mission, looking for a fight. The good-luck coin hung above his bed, and he looked at it and remembered. It was a gift from his ex-girlfriend’s mother, so not exactly Hollywood romantic, but it was there and it would do. Yet luck could not calm his mind. Irvine surveyed the details of the mission and surveyed them again. Set up an ambush. Catch the Taliban unprepared. Kill them. He imagined scenarios. He wondered how he would do. “If this.” “If that.”