What Are We Fighting For?

Nambo and Cliffhanger are being posted to Afghanistan for six months.

I am, of course, being a total cry baby about it (neither they, nor you, would expect anything less I'm sure).

The first time I met Nambo, he'd just come back from Afghanistan. After that he was in Iraq for a while during the first stage of the war, but not in the worst areas of fighting. Or so he says. It's hard to know what to believe when someone's trying to reassure you. After all, Cliffhanger refuses to admit that unlike in Ultimate Force, a land mine can't really be defused once you've stood on it...

I love them and I'm so scared for them, and we're just friends, so I can't imagine what it must be like for wives and girlfriends of forces personnel. I really can't.

Hideous, I suppose. Just hideous.