Under the bright sunlight raining down on a middle eastern city, Director Price oversaw the installation of ten Future Arms All-Weather Missile Defense Batteries around Kandahar.
[$500 million is a big chunk of Future Security's annual budget, but we've invested too much in the city to watch it fall from enemy artillery.] Price thought while walking around a battery emplacement.
He watched a few FS operators chatting with locals at a Halal Guys fast food restaurant.
Kids were running around the clean and orderly streets playing with each other without worry or fear.
[This is what we're protecting. Fortunately, neighboring hostile nations haven't set their sights on Kandahar. But it will only be a matter of time.] Price pondered.
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