Battlefield Tourist

So we make it over to the tent to pick up other journalists, and of course, they're doing their own thing and taking their sweet time. I start to process all of this and get a bit agitated. I say something to my handler, escort, babysitter person, and one of these guys come over quizzing me over who I am. Anyone who knows me knows what happened next. It was simple and to the point. Turns out he's a CBS cameraman, not that it matters. For this little encounter, of course I'm given "a talk" and life goes on.
Before that though, we coverred tthe cermonny of the two dead soldiers and the seven wounded. Very interesting as half the pole bearers were ANA and half were US Special Forces.
The next day was a relaxing one if you will. Still plannining on combat ops, just none in the immmediate future. So in the meantime we gout on patrol with the ANA escorting psy ops teams to villages. A week prior, the Romanians did the escort. Now it's the ANA. Showing some progress. By this time I've gone ahead and arranged for the Sat truck and crew to come to Kandahar so we can feed the video quickly. They already made it down the treacherous KKabul-Kandahar highway and would be met at the gate in the morning. It's about this tiime that we're informed we won't be going on any military obs for about three more weeks for a variety of reasons. That same day, we hear that the incredibly hot Laura Logan from 60 Minutes II was on her way here to do something similar. Who says women can't get up in this world. Funny thing is, I hheard the General wasn't overly pleased with her first report. Even more baffling.
The final day we went on a joint US-ANA- Romanian patrol/medical brigade....