After 20 years as a Field Artillery Officer, with two Vietnam tours, I retired to go to law school, then spent 20 years as prosucutor in a small county in Idaho. About the same time you did, having retired again, I answered an online inquiry and accepted an invitation to go to Afghanistan to manage a three-attorney team in Mazar-e-Sharif for a State Department contractor training prosecutors and senior criminal investigators in the effort to reestablish the rule of law. In addition to the three of us American lawyers, I had three interpreters, an Afghan attorney, and an office manager on the team. Two of my interpreters got our one practicing law now after law school in Australia, and the other got an MBA and has a number of business interests. I have been unable to contact the Afghan lawyer or the third interpreter. I have done what I could to get the office manager out, but his family situation there put a stop to that. I grieve for those left behind and appreciate efforts like yours.
After 20 years as a Field Artillery Officer, with two Vietnam tours, I retired to go to law school, then spent 20 years as prosucutor in a small county in Idaho. About the same time you did, having retired again, I answered an online inquiry and accepted an invitation to go to Afghanistan to manage a three-attorney team in Mazar-e-Sharif for a State Department contractor training prosecutors and senior criminal investigators in the effort to reestablish the rule of law. In addition to the three of us American lawyers, I had three interpreters, an Afghan attorney, and an office manager on the team. Two of my interpreters got our one practicing law now after law school in Australia, and the other got an MBA and has a number of business interests. I have been unable to contact the Afghan lawyer or the third interpreter. I have done what I could to get the office manager out, but his family situation there put a stop to that. I grieve for those left behind and appreciate efforts like yours.