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this is a tale about operation water

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rush and walking basically what we're

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doing here . We have three watty

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systems or canals like what you see

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behind me . Captain Samuel Perlich

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knows about both and they stretch

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dozens if not hundreds of kilometers

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across southern Afghanistan . When we

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first arrived here , two of the three

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of these bodies were blocked . The

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wadis are in Safari district , an

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agricultural area in Kandahar province .

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Thanks to Operation Water Rush and the

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mutual efforts of local afghans . The

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wadis are open water is moving and the

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growing season is underway historically

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were in what's called the green zone of

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Kandahar everywhere where there's lots

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of agriculture , there's also a lot of

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fighting that brings us to the walking

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part of this story . Isaf command

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sergeant major thomas koppel is here

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for a fact finding visit to see how the

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soldiers of Task force Fury are doing .

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This is Southern Afghanistan . Taliban

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territory , potentially lethal ,

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definitely dangerous . It's called the

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mine out . It has a metal detector

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capabilities along with a G . P . R .

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Which stands for ground penetrating

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radar . Surgeon Mackenzie smith is on

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his second afghan deployment ,

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different setting similar threat and

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while he hasn't found anything yet , if

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you had this rifle , where would you

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choose ? It depends where I'm at . But

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around here it sounds like this is one

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in the war . So I guess I'll take this .

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You really got the water running

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through the fort Bragg unit has been

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here just over a month . Most are

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repeat dip lawyers all are still

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learning something new about

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Afghanistan . They don't really teach

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you this at I O . B . C , but it's part

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of what we call it . Non lethal

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targeting . We can have just as good of

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effects by accomplishing stuff like

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this that we can by catching and

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killing taliban , which is kind of hard

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striking . A balance between the non

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lethal targeting with the water and

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then obviously doing our wartime

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mission of killing and capturing

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taliban is a difficult balances .

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Strike , maintaining equilibrium in the

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days ahead is a recognized challenge .

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But in a backdrop of freely flowing

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water , the foundation between us and

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Afghan is getting stronger step by step .

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Gail Mccabe Afghanistan .