Lt Lisowski flew his first ever night combat sortie over the historic Hindu-Kush mountain range in Northeastern Afghanistan with peaks reaching 24,000 feet. The weather forecast called for a broken ceiling at 22,000 feet, moon illumination of zero, and thunderstorms building over the mountains. He calculated a target area minimum safe altitude of 20,000 feet MSL and developed a plan for the best possible escape route. While searching for enemy forces using his Targeting Pod, his ...