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the program is actually having a huge

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impact on helping stabilize Afghanistan

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and to win the counterinsurgency fight

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as we were there . As I said in the

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briefing , 85% of the people in

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Afghanistan are involved in agriculture .

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So agriculture itself has a huge impact

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on what the Afghan people are doing

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here go the A . T . T . Working both

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with the government and private

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entities within Afghanistan and the

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private sector are helping to build the

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agricultural economy . They're helping

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to build governmental capacity to work

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with the Afghan people to build the

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economy and connect the Afghan

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government with the Afghan people in a

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positive manner . Our roll over there

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and main mission is to build legitimacy ,

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legitimacy and support for the Afghan

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government . We do that By doing three

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things . 1 building governmental

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capacity to building agricultural

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economic capacity within the local

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economy or region that were assigned to

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three years is connecting the Afghan

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government at the provincial , the

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district in the village level with the

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Afghan people in a positive manner .

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The seminar is important from the

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standpoint is is that again , it's a

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vehicle for us to disseminate

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current information based on our our

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deployment and to pass along best

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practices for deploying units in an

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effort to build continuity between

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current A TTS and deploying a TTS so we

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can continue along the same lines in

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the same effort that we've established

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in Afghanistan . If we don't do that ,

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then there's going to be kind of what I

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refer to as a cold starter , a gap

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where a new deploying a T T will have

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to come in and re figure things out as

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opposed to capitalizing on and building

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upon the knowledge and efforts of

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previous A . DTs from the area that

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their deployment .

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Mhm . What national

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guardsmen are unique from the

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standpoint is is working on this kind

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of capacity building or humanitarian

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aid is much like doing disaster relief

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and working with the local level

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governments as you would here in the

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United States during a natural disaster

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or some kind of a relief effort going

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on . Also , national guardsmen are

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unique in this is is that they're

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different from the USDA reps and U . S .

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A . I . D . Reps is is that we are

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soldiers and uh we do have combat

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skills . We do have combat vehicles

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which gives us mobility and autonomy in

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the battle space . And that's a huge

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advantage of enabling the A . D . T .

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To get out , interact and engage with

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the local government and the local

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populace .

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Both the depending on the situation ,

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the Tt we'll work at the provincial

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level , the district level or the

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village level depending on the

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situation and what the effort is going

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on in that particular area . It can

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work through building governmental

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capacity and and making better

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bureaucrats or establishing

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governmental policies at the provincial

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and district level . Or it can go into

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areas where the government is not there

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yet or does not have a strong presence

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and can directly work with farmers and

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villagers to directly impact

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agricultural efforts going on an area .

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So it's actually a combined of the

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three and they're focusing on three

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different things , one targeting food

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insecurity . So we're making sure that

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afghans are raising food and they can

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feed themselves to is is getting them

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to a cash crop economy so that their

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producing agriculture for profit and

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three is is helping them expand the

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existing markets , both at the regional ,

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the national and then eventually into

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the international community .