The Day the Earth Shook | A Special Forces Team responds to the catastrophic 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Pineland UndergroundShow Notes
Two Special Forces Teams arrive in Nepal to conduct a training exercise with the host nation's military but immediately find themselves in the middle of leading crisis response efforts after a massive earthquake hits Nepal in 2015. Luckily, one of these teams was a special skills mountaineering team already acclimatized to extreme altitudes.
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