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Description
Mr. Reist compares his first and last deployment to Afghanistan and sees the improvements for the local population.
Transcription
I went back in 2012 as mentoring and it was night and day. People were out on the streets. The shops were open. I was lucky enough to have an interpreter and my counterpart was the camp sergeant major in one of the camps in Kabul and I actually got to know them and share stuff with them every day. For nine months, I saw them almost every day except for Friday. We got really close. You go have tea with them or you go to meals with them. You know you share stories about your family. The biggest thing with Afghanistan is once, you get a handshake that’s perfect but when you start getting the hugs. When you get hugged you know you’re in. My interpreter cried when I left and my counterpart cried when I left. And it gave me a different view of Afghanistan. Gone from the days of ’07 where you didn’t trust anybody to this is a country that wants to help itself.