Commander Price, left, in Afghanistan with Cmdr. Mike Hayes, who led another SEAL team.
Nicholas Kulish and Christopher Drew, New York Times: A Deadly Deployment, a Navy SEAL’s Despair
It was his last night of what his men were already calling a cursed deployment in Afghanistan.
Cmdr. Job W. Price had signed off on the final report on the ambush killing of an enlisted Navy SEAL team member. His staff had completed a plan to turn over American military outposts to their Afghan partners, and Commander Price had given an unusually emotional thanks to his team for its service.
His executive officer noticed that the commander’s Sig Sauer pistol was out on his desk that night, Dec. 21, 2012, where he had never seen it before. By the time Commander Price went back to his room, the photograph of his 9-year-old daughter was gone from his desk. In his trouser pocket was a report on the recent death of an Afghan girl in an explosion near an American base.
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If a gun is fired in a military post and there are no military people around to hear the shot does it still make a noise?
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