`Christen N. McCluney`
A team with NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan is working with and funding the Afghan National Security Forces, while helping them on the road to self-sufficiency....(portion of article omitted)
...Ferrari said that as they continue partnering with Afghan units over time, it will build their capability, and compared it to teaching a kid how to ride a bike.
"If they have to go down a hill or around a bend or something happens, they might fall off again. And so you pick them up and you put them back on," he said. "And every time they go through another obstacle or the enemy gets a little better, they get a little better, until over time they're going longer and longer without assistance."
Ferrari said that it will take time before all the Afghan National Security Forces throughout the country are operating independently and are in the lead.
"I don't know how long that will take. But there are signs today that the units that have been around for awhile, that have been battle-tested, where the leadership is present, ... can take charge under certain conditions for certain time lines," he said. Read entire article.
(Christen N. McCluney works in the Defense Media Activity's Emerging Media Directorate.)
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