Out for a two hour drive?

2 U.S. Navy Personnel Missing in Afghanistan

Two U.S. Navy service members disappeared in a dangerous area of eastern Afghanistan, prompting a massive air and ground search and appeals on local radio stations for their safe return, NATO and Afghan officials said Saturday. ...The two left their compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in a vehicle Friday afternoon, but never returned, NATO said in a statement.

Vehicles and helicopters were dispatched to search for the two, who may have been killed or captured by the Taliban in Charkh district of southern Logar province, about a two-hour drive south of Kabul, said district chief Samer Gul.

Goddamn it, how do two guys end up two hours away from their base driving around an area controlled by the Taliban? We have 100,000 troops there. How can we be so stupid to send out two-man patrols?