A soldier’s story: A mission goes amiss for a South Bay soldier serving in Afghanistan

September 10 was supposed to be a down day for the Ugly Ducklings. The self-dubbed ducklings are a three-man Army military police team stationed in the mountains of northeast Afghanistan, part of roughly 50-man platoon whose primary goal upon deployment last May was to train Afghani military police. But by September, the platoon’s second squad […]