"What happened to your legs," an activist operating under the handle The Palestine News Network asked Mast as he was walking in the halls of the US Capitol. "Did a red triangle go over your head?"
B Company, Second Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment served in the Arghandab District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in 2009-10. Those were two of the deadliest years in the United States's war in Afghanistan. Along with Helmand and Kunar provinces, Kandahar was among the deadliest places in that country, and the Arghandab was the most dangerous place within Kandahar.
The war’s intense conclusion and a drought combined to wipe out the famous Afghan pomegranate harvest in Kandahar Province, during a devastating national economic crisis.