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- [Man] Enemy down.

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(dramatic music)

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(gun shots)

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- We're bringing on destroyed vehicles

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and we would switch them
out with new vehicles.

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The Afghans are a great people.

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Their world is very different than ours.

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Working with the Afghan people

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and understanding their
culture helped immensely.

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Taking the time upfront,

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the courses that we
took prior to deploying,

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the command guiding us
in the very beginning,

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General Smiley and Colonel Leany,

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giving a specific focal
point for us to work towards

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and then when we got on ground,

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taking the time to really understand

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who we were working with
helped out immensely.

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The Afghan people's culture
is very different than ours.

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But taking the time, in the
beginning, to understand that

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helped us to help them move forward.

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There were many problems

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that the American solution
was not the right solution.

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We had to find what was
the Afghan solution.

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And once we found that, the
Afghan people, as a whole,

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were more than happy to work with us.