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Taking place under it where in america they would close down the block. This where my family has always had its stall. We got to make a living. What else can we do . We dont have any medical training which kind of okay, you are fire fighters, i figured you had some. That was my naivete at the moment, i think i was a little overwhelmed myself. Thats still my ongoing project as far as that goes, how can we raise some funds and i actually have a bunch of paramedics that would go over there in a heartbeat on their time if we could find a way to fund it to teach them the medicine. The reality is th...

Health systems, anything that would contribute to their growth. So girls in school, big focus area. We wanted to reverse the effects of the state of women and girls in afghanistan. So once the security foot hold was gained in southwest afghanistan by the marines in 2010 and 2011 and they continued to conduct operations as im speaking, we began to build capacity at every level to ensure the afghans are ultimately able to take the helm of their own destiny and they have the capacity to run this system. We instituted assessments for growth in schools, we create the thresholds for the complete tur...

Im going to bring you to when i was there during 2010 and 2011 after the president decided to surge the forces. First marine decision, First Marine Expeditionary force forward entered southwest afghanistan during 2009. We arrived in 2010 so it was a bit more stable. And we went straight to helman and nimruz province. Very complex dynamic environment that we were operating in but before i begin it talk to you about the operational picture, i just want to give you a snapshot of afghanistan. When we got there i want to set the frame here so you understand what were dealing with. Afghanistan range...

And there were a lot of automatic weapons, everybody with fingers on the triggers and muzzles going everywhere and im, look, can we just back off a little bit . Lets not tailgate quite so much, please. I know you guys know that but it was a real eye opener for an old medic like me. People are resilient. They come out of the rubble, they are living in tents, they are afraid to go in their houses and its not getting better. This is december, were coming on winter. Its getting cold. And it gets really cold there. Its high mountainous region. And were wondering what are they going to do . Were tal...

When their Armed Forces Show up, its not really lacked upon as a good thin. This is why i want to say thank you to our military thats here today, to the army, the navy, the military in general, the marines, the coast guard, even i saw a couple air force running around here yesterday. The fact that you are here and you are in San Francisco and you do this every year, it says a lot. Because we lack at look at this as a good week. We have a great working relationship and after being there and seeing that its not a Good Relationship and people get really, really tense when the guys in green show u...