Camping Trip

"Last Wednesday I was leaving the chow hall after dinner headed back to the office when the Civil Affairs Captain grabbed me and asked if I wanted to go on a long mission Friday. I said, “Sure, how long is it?” expecting to hear 14 or 16 hours, and he said “3 days”. Ok… Whatever, it’ll be fun. Then I asked him where it was and he held out his palm and drew an imaginary map. He said, “Here’s a river, here’s where we’ll be (pointing at one side of the river), and here’s Pakistan (pointing at the other side)”. The place we were headed was just North of the Khyber Pass and Torkham Gate to a couple small villages up there. Torkham Gate just reopened after being closed for a week or so while the Pakistan military conducted counter-insurgency operations on their side which flushed all the Taliban fighters across the border in to Afghanistan. Sounds exciting!"
A Year in the Sandbox

A new blog from Afghanistan