When you’re embedded with the military in a place like Afghanistan, you can spend a lot of time waiting.
And so it was last Thursday. We had been embedded with U.S. and Canadian forces inside Kandahar City for a week, and we were awaiting a military flight back to Kabul.
Our transport – a C-130 Hercules – was still two hours away from arriving, so we settled in at the rather basic “departure lounge” at the huge Kandahar Air Force base – known to the military as simply “KAF.”
After 45 minutes or so, we noticed soldiers drifting from the waiting area to the outside gate, standing there, looking out.
