1st. Lt. Jason Basilides, Platoon Leader, Bravo Company, 1-4 Infantry, hops a creek headed back from a patrol doing local surveillance. I assumed Afghanistan would be completely arid and desert-like – and much of it is – but parts of it are incredibly fertile, and very green. Everywhere we walk on patrol has roaring streams appearing from nowhere, or seeping through walls, roads, or muddy flats.
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