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Bagram Airbase helps Army broadcaster be Batman for a day

BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN - In what has been described as the most heart-warming story to come out of Afghanistan since The Kite Runner and Operation Moshtarek, the entire airbase of Bagram recently turned itself into Gotham City for a day to let broadcast journalist Staff Sgt. Jesse Dyer play Batman.

Service members throughout the base took a break from their daily routines to help Batman rescue a strategy in distress, stop a visiting USO group from bombing onstage, and help authorities catch the villain "Two-Face," graciously played by Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

As the adorable 36-year old Staff Noncommissioned Officer from North Carolina, who was battling an extreme case of boredom, ran around the airbase he was cheered on by large crowds, shouting things like "Go Batman!", "What are they serving for chow?", and "So when I get my campaign medal I can go home, right?"

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