Update: A note to readers

"As many readers have noted, there has been a gap of a couple of weeks in writing. During that period, I was in the field with Canadian forces and US Army National Guard Embedded Trainers for operation Mountain Thrust here in southern Afghanistan. Due to operational security restrictions, I was unable to post my departure or my time away prior to leaving the base here in Kandahar.
I have now returned, with new material, and with yet another massing of stories from these soldiers. Over a period of 14 days, we were engaged in fighting eight times. There were no casualties with the group I was with. On day two, however, a young Canadian from a platoon operating several hundred meters from our position was killed by a Chechnyan sniper."
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