Commentary
We’ve all had those conversations where someone tells the story about how they were somewhere weird and ran into a friend from home. Then the next person tells their story about when they were somewhere a little odder and met someone they knew. I have a trump card for those conversations.
In early ‘04 I was stationed at the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, an 80-man firebase, as a civil affairs team engineer. This duty meant lots of meetings with various Afghans about projects and policies they’d like. We also tried to coordinate with several other units with varying missions to try to synchronize all our efforts….