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from over 45 different nations.

Two thirds of the soldiers

deployed here

never even see the country.

They just see blast walls,

DFACs, Tim Hortons.

Nobody even knows how many

people are on this base.

35, 45, 60,000?

It's here, inside the wire,

that we organize everything

that goes on outside the wire.

Half the time, we got it wrong,

but that means half the time,

we got it right.

It's a vast organism

that consumes

14 metric tons of food a day

and shits into a lake

that fills the air

with 30% fecal matter.

In KAF,

you breathe your own sh*t.

I'm building a road,

gentlemen.

I'm building a big f***ing road

and it's going like a dagger

into the heart of the enemy

and it is f***ing him up.

Every morning he wakes up,

I'm standing there

and I'm punching him

in his f***ing face.

Now, we've never been this deep

into the Horn of Panjwai,

but Hyena Road is in there

and she's in there to stay.

And they don't like it,

'cause we're f***ing

with their freedom of movement.

So they're going after

our dump trucks and our

gravel trucks and our workers.

What are you saying?

I'm saying I've lost 36

civilians in the last 4 months

and this bullshit

has got to stop.

And I'm gonna need

a little help from you.

- General, I am just one man.

- You're Bashir Daoud Khan, BDK.

You're one man with a militia.

And I am your partner

in peace.

So I need your eyes and ears

and I need you and your son

to be at our little

dedication ceremony,

how many clicks, there, Shorty?

- 15, sir.

- 15 clicks of hardtop

into the Horn.

Your presence there

would be... very meaningful.

Hyena Road is a gift

to all Afghans.

It would be an honour

for my father and I

to attend your ceremony.

Out-f***ing-standing.

- Thank you, general.

- Thank you, sir.

Look at the little prick.

He's like Caligula.

It'd be a f*** of a lot easier

to get Hyena built

if that prick

would stop breathing.

Right there, you're right.

I'm gonna hop a flight.

I wanna get to Sper,

run down a lead on an elder.

Tell Armstrong I'll call in

from the FOB.

You don't want

to hang out with me?

Oh, you know there is nothing

I'd rather do

but the future

of Western civilization

depends on my ass

getting out to Sper.

Alexander the Great

marched into this graveyard

about 2,500 years ago.

asy to march in,

hard to march out. His words.

He and his mother wrote

to each other all the time.

One day, he got a letter from

her saying,

"What the hell? You conquered most

of the known world in a day and a half,

what are you doing

bogged down in Afghanistan?"

He grabbed a bag

and shoveled it full of dirt

and had it sent back to Greece

with a message to his mother,

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