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My name is First Lieutenant Claudia

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Cross Ones with a 64 combat engineer

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battalion out of Fort Lewis , uh , in

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Washington . Were combat engineers were

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specifically combat heavy engineers .

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And our our missions are civil

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engineering in nature . And so what we

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want to do is construct infrastructure

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for the people out here . So we've been

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constructing roads , uh , for the first

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time , connecting provincial capital

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cities , allowing people to finally

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move around . Uh , they're no longer

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isolated in these tiny little mountain

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villages where the taliban was able to

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really have a lot of control over them

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because they had no need , no means of

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getting out , uh , seeking medical aid ,

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going to a larger market town , for

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instance , and even practice free

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commerce with an option . Before now it

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is for these people , they can get an

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education and we're providing them with

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those means , while also giving them

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the skill sets for them to also uh ,

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provide for themselves in the future .