The Pech and Waygul Valleys

My Soldiers have been diving into their jobs and new environment face first. We've already treated countless casualties and unfortunately we'll treat countless more. One of my medics is receiving a Purple Heart (minor injuries not requiring any sort of evacuation), two are receiving valorous awards and seven others are receiving their Combat Medic Badge (awarded for treating casualties while under fire). Though I have medics spread out across five bases, we all experience the same, very kinetic area of operations.

We've seen ailments due to poor hygiene standards or a complete lack thereof. We've seen traumatic injuries to children because, that's just what parents are accustomed to doing to their kids.

Consequently, we've found that treating the innocent is harder than it sounds. We feed into the dependence on Western medicine everytime we accept a local patient who refuses to or simply "can't afford to" see a local clinic.

All barriers and frustrations aside, the Soldiers are doing great. We do love hearing from home.