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>> I was stationed at the Combined Forces Command, which is the headquarters in Kabul, which is the capitol of Afghanistan.  Now, I'm now -- I got out of the Marine Corps and I'm now a JAG Officer in the Army.  I'm actually an Army National Guard.  And I did that after I got out of the Marine Corps and went back to school and became an attorney.
>> Yeah.
>> So I was there because I'm a JAG Officer, but I actually worked in the Commander's Advisory Group.  So I was there doing things on behalf of the Commander, Lieutenant General  Baranoff, all over the country.  So I traveled to Herat, Kandahar, Asadabad, Jalalabad, Bagram, Kabul, so I traveled quite a bit.
>> Now, what exactly did you do in JAG?  
>> Well, the JAG Corps is the Judge Advocate Generals Corps, the attorneys, but in Afghanistan, I was doing assessments of the Afghans need for -- their own national security assessment, how many soldiers do they need, how many policemen do they need.  I was investigating the bombing of -- the alleged bombing of a village by our aircraft, things of that nature.  That's why I was there.
>> Did you see combat?
>> Not exactly.  We were rocketed and mortared, and I was also in a helicopter that was shot at by an RPG, but I was not in a direct fire fight myself.
>> Were there many casualties in your unit?
>> No, there weren't.  We saw wounded people, we saw people that were killed, but mostly from -- for example, when I was in Kabul, DynCorp was a civilian contractor that trains Afghan soldiers and police.  There was a car bomb that blew up and killed several people and wounded several others.  So what we saw were kind of what they see in Iraq now, a lot of car bombings.  They call them IUDs and devised as explosive devices, things of that nature.  So it's not the traditional fire fight.  
>> Right, right.  Do you have any most memorable experiences?
>> Yes.  I got to go out and do an investigation in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, and I got to stay for about a week with a Special Forces Unit in a place called Camp Blessing, which is in Nihola, Afghanistan, and it was a great experience.  If I had to do it all over again, I think I'd go with the Special Forces troops, right out of high school or college.
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