![A little resident of Regay watches the patrol pass. [PHOTO: ADAM DAY]](http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/afghanlead.jpg)
In the early afternoon of Operation Ateesh Bazi’s second day, as our patrol staggered through its 10th hour and third suspected insurgent stronghold, the heat became something more vivid and invasive than a phenomenon of weather should ever be.
Numbers alone cannot contain or relate the effect of that high-noon Afghan desert sun on the brains and bodies of cold-weather-bred Canadians. You get so …
