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this is a tale about operation water

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brush and walking . 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 wadis were blocked . The

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waters are in Sahar E 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 . That

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brings us to the walking part of this

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story . Isaf Command Sergeant major

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thomas koppel is here for a fact

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finding visit to see how the soldiers

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of Task force Fury are doing . The fort

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Bragg unit has been here just over a

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month , most are repeat deploy ear's

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all are still learning something new

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about Afghanistan . They don't really

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teach you this in Bc but it's part of

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what we call it . Non lethal targeting .

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We can have just as good of effects by

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accomplishing stuff like this that we

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can by catching and killing Taliban ,

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which is kind of hard striking . A

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balance between the non lethal

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targeting with the water . And then

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obviously doing our wartime mission of

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killing and capturing Taliban is a

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difficult balance to strike ,

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maintaining equilibrium in the days

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ahead is a recognized challenge . But

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in a backdrop of freely flowing water ,

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the foundation between us and afghan is

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getting stronger step by step . Gail

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Mccabe Afghanistan