Responding to an urgent request from commanders on the ground, the Pentagon will soon ship its first transportable forensic analysis laboratory to Afghanistan, according to Defense Department sources. The rush to field the first lab in Afghanistan follows the successful introduction of the mobile crime labs in Iraq. It was requested by ground commanders through the Pentagon's so-called "joint urgent operational needs" process, sources said. U.S. Central Command leaders "bumped up" the urgency level within the past few months, one...
