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a group of american british and Afghan

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troops formed up in two lines to leave

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Kandahar airfield in a foot patrol

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walking through plowed fields and

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dormant vineyards . They made their way

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to the tiny villages nearby . Basically

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today we're gonna be patrolling out ,

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uh showing ourselves in the area ,

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interacting with the locals , letting

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the afghan Air force security forces uh

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get their names out there and start

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interacting with the locals so that

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eventually they can take over our job

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while a foot patrol is business as

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usual for the coalition advisers , it's

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an important duty for the Afghan airmen

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of the Kandahar Air wing to learn . My

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hope is that you know , that we can

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pass all of our expertise along to them

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and that they can utilize that to be

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successful in operating in their own

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country and so they can be autonomous

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from coalition forces . This foot

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patrol was an equally important

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opportunity for the villagers to learn

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about the consequences of allowing

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insurgents to use their farmland . We

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visited these people to tell them that

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we're here to help them and assist them .

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We told them that next time we will

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come here will educate them to make

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sure that nobody bothers them and

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nobody poisoned them . And also we want

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to ask them who brings the rockets here

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or there . Taliban is living in this

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area , Are there Taliban who are coming

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to this area or not , daytime patrols

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allow the Afghan public to see their

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national security forces in action ,

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which builds confidence in their

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ability to protect the country . Tech

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Sergeant Adrian Grammar Kandahar

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Afghanistan