Lt. Col. David Poage listens intently to a village elder during a meeting with tribal leaders and elders May 4 at the Alishang District Center in the Laghman Province in Afghanistan. During the meeting, leaders discussed pressing issues and problems affecting the community. Colonel Poage is the commander of the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Dr. Mohammad Yasuf treats a wounded Afghan national police officer successfully stabilizing him after the officer received a gunshot wound May 7 in the Laghman Province in Afghanistan. Dr. Yasuf, an Afghan national army doctor, and Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team medics were engaged in a joint-medical outreach in the Sangar Valley at the time. The Afghan national police were conducting an unrelated poppy-eradication mission a few kilometers away when the officer was wounded. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Senior Airman Robin Mock helps stabilize an Afghan national police officer with a gunshot wound May 7 in the Laghman Province in Afghanistan. Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team medics and an Afghan national army doctor were conducting a joint-medical outreach in Sur Ghar Village at the time of the incident. The Afghan officer was wounded during an unrelated poppy eradication mission a few kilometers away. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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A young girl crawls from under her parents' selling table during a Provincial Reconstruction Team economic assessment of Mehtar Lam May 3 in the Laghman Province in Afghanistan. The assessment, conducted by members of Army civil affairs, confirmed that the soaring flour prices affecting Afghanistan are also affecting Laghman Province, with many reporting prices doubling and tripling before the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan took action. In April, the IRoA cabinet members put aside $2.5 billion Afghani so that the ministry of finance could buy more wheat and ease the burden on the Afghan people. (U.S. Army photo)

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Reconstruction team helps Afghans

Published May 12, 2008

Lt. Col. David Poage listens intently to a village elder during a meeting with tribal leaders and elders May 4 at the Alishang District Center in the Laghman Province in Afghanistan. During the meeting, leaders discussed pressing issues and problems affecting the community. Colonel Poage is the commander of the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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