Winning hearts and minds

From: Soldiers | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

CIVIL-affairs soldiers throughout Afghanistan are working hard through various community projects to win the trust of the Afghan people.

Winning hearts and minds is their mission, and over the course of seven months soldiers of Team A, 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, at Asadabad Fire Base have completed several projects that support that goal. These projects have included distribution of humanitarian-aid items, digging a well at a boys school, laying an irrigation pipeline, covering the rock and mortar walls at a girls school with concrete, putting in latrines for the same school, plus many ...

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