KABUL, Afghanistan — An Army officer in Afghanistan is very lost this afternoon, Duffel Blog has learned, and is hoping to find his security detail as soon as possible.
“Ermm … Yep. Fuck. I don’t know where I am,” Maj. William Spencer reports, scratching nervously under the shoulder strap of his empty plate carrier. “This place is real big.”
Spencer, a requisitions officer out of Ft. Bragg, is on his first deployment to Afghanistan. “To anywhere, really,” he adds. He is tasked with assisting civilian contractors with providing arms and equipment to the Afghan National Army 201st Corps. The assignment involves bi-weekly trips out of his office to an ANA compound on the outskirts of Kabul. For those trips, he is assigned three infantry gun trucks with six dismounts as a personal security detail. Today, he is unsure where his protection detail has gone.
