Fighting the Taliban

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    Assignment Afghanistan

    March 1, 2010 by admin
    For several weeks last fall, a dusty and dangerous frontier town in Afghanistan was home for Legion Magazine staff writer Adam Day. Armed with a notebook and camera, Day spent his time in Salavat with a platoon of 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry,...
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    Assignment Afghanistan: The Struggle For Salavat – Part 1

    March 1, 2010 by Adam Day
    For the first few days the platoon was uneasy. So much of everything was unknown. As a unit they were new to the war but they knew the war’s reputation for random savagery. As each patrol was leaving the little fortified schoolhouse over the first days,...