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- [Announcer] From Soldiers
Radio and Television,

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this is the Army now.

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- [Cpl. Nagle] Regional
Training Center Mehtar Lam

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introduces its first class
of Afghan Local Police

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in the district.

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The new graduates
demonstrated their abilities

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with a weapons breakdown challenge,

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and a mock attack on an ALP post.

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The ALP is a community security force

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that allows village elders to select

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the young men that will represent

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and defend their villages
as Afghan Local Policemen.

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- That's just that much more information

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going out into the village that indicates

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the people that are out
here, that are isolated,

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it indicates to them, hey,
perhaps our government

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is going to work for us.

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Perhaps we have an
alternative to the Taliban.

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- [Cpl. Nagle] The Afghan
Local Police was established

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by president Hamid Karzai as part of

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the Village Stability Operations program

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in remote areas of Afghanistan.

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Marine Corporal Tia Nagle,

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Regional Training Center
Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan.

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- [Announcer] That's the Army now.