KHAYR KOT DISTRICT, Afghanistan — Before deploying with his battalion to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. David Fivecoat did something unusual to prepare his men.
He took his company commanders to a city council meeting in Clarksville, Tenn., across the border from their base at Fort Campbell, Ky., to “see the workings of small-town government.”
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“I told my guys before we got here that if we left Afghanistan without killing a single person and all we did was build areas, we’ve done our jobs,” said Capt. Aaron Schwengler, commander of Company B in Khayr Kot and the more volatile Kushamond district farther south.
The soldiers here work closely with civil affairs specialists, human terrain team representatives, provincial reconstruction teams, a special military officer who handles smaller, military-funded projects and representatives from the U.S. Agency for International Development, which receives foreign policy guidance from the State Department.
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