Explosion was somewhere out there...
Once again, moments after I uploaded my last post about the mission being canceled yesterday, and having nothing to do, there was a slight boom/rumble. It felt like someone stomping on the roof, or jumping off a chair onto the floor. It didn’t seem like an explosion.
There were three soldiers in the room with me, and we all looked at each other and started speculating whether it had been an explosion. Then, the whining/siren sound came over the base PA system, and off to the bunkers we went.
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Sean Carberry Afghanistan, AfPak, Pakistan, Taliban
The irony never ends. Just as I was typing a blog post about how frustrating it is to be on an embed and not be able to get out on missions or have anything happening, something happened.
I was sitting in a corner of the base on the steps to a lookout post typing away, when a sergeant came around one of the buildings and yelled, “Hey reporter!” He told me that the Afghan Border Police had just arrived with a truck full of weaponry they had found.
I grabbed my gear and ran over to see a green ABP Ford Ranger pickup truck with a pile of rusty, dirt-covered mortars in the back. Soldiers were laying out a tarp, and began to place the mortars on the ground. They emptied the truck and counted 49 in total.
Soldiers were debriefing the ABP commander who explained that his men were in the process of digging a foundation for a new building at one of their border control bases, and they came across the mortars. It’s clear they were not from this campaign and that they’ve been in the ground a long time.
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Sean Carberry Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taliban