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Number of afghan vets. we've read these questions to all of the commanders. the first one is from jason dempsey, retired army. if you could have done something differently as a commander, what would it be? >> i probably would have been far more fervent in my pleas my first time over there that more had to be done outside of the military. at that time the state department was taking only volunteers to go to afghanistan. they weren't directing anybody. i think we had to look at all the dimensions of the u.s. power we were applying there and put it in an expeditionary footing just like the milita...

I'm brett sheets, i'm originally from camp hill, pennsylvania and served in afghanistan 2003 to 2004. when we went over to afghanistan, which was end of the summer in 2003, we were already in iraq and there was a weird sense of whoa, i thought i was going into the main effort and now it's obvious i'm not. i think after a couple months, i realized we don't seem to have a target list. nation building was the vast majority of what we did in afghanistan. i realized unless something major changed, that this was not going to work out. the amount of troops, the amount of equipment, the amount of mone...