Summary

Before they entered the gate of the firebase, Aziz put a new set of handcuffs on the prisoner he’d set free. The man gave him a dirty look. After the men were put in a locked hut, Aziz reminded himself he was a soldier and tried to forget them. Aziz and the other soldiers had begun to realize that if Commander Sabir got his outpost, the troops would never get badal against Gazan as they’d been promised. Sabir wanted the outpost for the control it would give him over a large portion of the region but if they killed Gazan and his men, the villagers would want the outpost shut down. The outpost would also force the Americans to give the Afghanistan people more money to run operations. Sabir was pilfering this money and would become richer. Aziz breaks into his...