Scott Brown will return Thursday from a weeklong National Guard training in Afghanistan. He
spent:
...most of his time in Kabul, where he lived, ate and trained with other troops.
The Massachusetts Republican is a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He asked to conduct his annual training overseas, and it was his first time serving in a combat zone.
Brown specifically requested Afghanistan, according to a statement released "just hours after President Obama announced that United States special forces had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan," but a couple days before Brown fell for a fake bin Laden death photo.
No doubt it's just two funny coincidences that his first stint in a combat zone came when he was up for reelection and was announced immediately after bin Laden was killed.