The text below is from an article over at CNN. The journalist who wrote it plays around a bit too much with prose for my taste (as it is a news article), but it saves me from having to recap. Please read it. I'll see you in just a bit.
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Long before the sun even hinted at lighting the sky Sunday, an American soldier left the remote combat outpost of Camp Belambay, allegedly headed for two villages in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's Kandahar Province... An Afghan soldier at Belambay spotted a soldier going out around 3 a.m., past the blast barriers, and notified U.S. commanders.
The commanders immediately ordered a head count, as the military always does. They confirmed a soldier was missing and assembled a search party right away, according to Gen. John Allen, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan.
"It was as that search party was forming that we began to have indications of the outcome of his departure," Allen said.
