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U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Samuel Beauchamp, left, Chief Petty Officer Kevin Cassidy, center left, Lt. Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann, center right, and U.S. Army Col. Peter Andrysiak, far right, listen as Afghan national engineer brigade personnel describe a field training exercise on Camp Ghazi in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2014. The exercise was the culmination of seven months of training, during which U.S. service members instructed Afghan engineers in vertical and horizontal construction, bridge building, and water well operations. The U.S. sailors are assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25.

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Samuel Beauchamp, left, Chief Petty Officer Kevin Cassidy, center left, Lt. Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann, center right, and U.S. Army Col. Peter Andrysiak, far right, listen as Afghan national engineer brigade personnel describe a field training exercise on Camp Ghazi in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2014. The exercise was the culmination of seven months of training, during which U.S. service members instructed Afghan engineers in vertical and horizontal construction, bridge building, and water well operations. The U.S. sailors are assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25.

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Samuel Beauchamp, left, Chief Petty Officer Kevin Cassidy, center left, Lt. Cmdr. Jeromy Pittmann, center right, and U.S. Army Col. Peter Andrysiak, far right, listen as Afghan national engineer brigade personnel describe a field training exercise on Camp Ghazi in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2014. The exercise was the culmination of seven months of training, during which U.S. service members instructed Afghan engineers in vertical and horizontal construction, bridge building, and water well operations. The U.S. sailors are assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25.

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