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    PATROL BASE BOLDAK, AFGHANISTAN, AFGHANISTAN

    07.29.2013

    Photo by Sgt. Bobby Yarbrough 

    Regional Command Southwest

    Cpl. Michael Emerson steps through the wall of a compound while searching for any signs of insurgency during Operation Grizzly IV July 29. Operation Grizzly was a counter-insurgency operation to deter enemy activity, establish a presence and gather human intelligence. Emerson is a designated marksman with 1st Platoon, Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. (Photo by Sgt. Bobby J. Yarbrough)

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    Date Posted: 08.02.2013 17:02
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    At the front door
    Searching through the hay
    Over the Wall
    On the leash
    Search and Sniff
    Under the rug
    Stairway to Heaven
    Peering through the window
    Break on through to the other side
    Shadows in the dark
    Searching for a sniper
    Patrolling the desert
    Breaching the door
    Searching the area
    Searching by the light
    By the leash
    Taking a "Paws"
    Oatmeal by candlelight
    Goatpen
    Scanning the ground
    Incoming
    Manning the wall
    On top of the barn
    Sighted in

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    It’s an hour before sunset and 30-year-old Besmellah Khurram is feverishly texting his group of frie
    ” says Mr. Khurram. Khurram and his friends are enjoying some of the luxuries that have popped up i
    such as disposable income to spend on eating out and purchasing the latest mobile phones
    and even cars. However
    much of this newly established and mostly urban middle class is in danger of rapidly shrinking once
    when most international security forces will leave Afghanistan and the country will be expected to g
    many of these local businesses will fail
    ” says Khurram
    a graduate of Kabul University’s school of economics. Khurram works as a manager for a private sect
    an aid organization. He says many of his friends also work for various international aid organizatio
    000 to $4
    000 a month
    putting them in Kabul's upper middle class. This is much higher than the average per capita income
    which according to the World Bank is $528. However uneven distribution of international aid and priv
    along with lucrative military and security contracts
    have created a financial bubble in Afghanistan. Since 2001
    this bubble has pushed up cost of living and contributed to the growth of the Afghan middle class
    especially in urban areas. Although official statistics or a formal definition of the middle class
    some economists estimate that the Afghan middle class may have grown from almost zero in 2001 to as
    somewhere between 2.75 and 4.13 million Afghans now fall into the various levels of the middle class
    but during the ‘90s the increased fighting in the country forced most of the middle class families t
    ” says Mohammad Ismail Rahimi
    the general director of policy at the Afghan Ministry of Economy. Some Afghans believe a strong mid
    two goals that are critical for long-term peace in the country. “In Afghanistan the middle class ar
    ” says 20-something Najla Hamid
    a student at Kabul University. However
    it’s not clear whether many of the new middle class families will be able to fare the slow deflation
    ” says Hamidullah Noor Ebad
    an economics professor at Kabul University and a member of the Afghan government’s economic advisory
    who worked as an office assistant for one of the United Nations projects in Kabul from 2009 until Ja
    but now I am back to driving a taxi so I can just meet the basic needs of my family. I am applying f
    ” says Mr. Mohmad
    who lives in Carte Naw
    a district of Kabul where rent prices for a three-room house are about $200 a month. Mohmad says h
    but 4 or 5 years ago I wasn’t in that mindset. I thought that these high paying jobs will always be
    ” he says. Fortunately Khurram did think ahead. “A few years ago I saved up enough money to buy tw
    one in Carte char for my family to live in and another property to rent out. I make a small profit o
    ” Khurram says. He says the upcoming economic and political transition won’t be easy but he’s conf
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