Ag surge is coming. Don't worry.

USDA is supposed to have up to 64 people in Afghanistan. I'm comfortable right now traveling with our USDA rep going around on the ground and doing assessments and actual extension classes if needed.

My only issue is why is there 11 agri-business development teams (ADTs)going to RC(E) and only 1 going to RC(S)?

That doesn't really make too much sense to me...

Kind of like COMISAF's "Spend 95% of the time with 95% of the population"

It sounds really good...but do we even have the logistical capacity to do so?

How long does it take to build a company sized combat outpost? Some experts tell me 4 months to do it properly...some people say 2 weeks just to get "something" up. I haven't heard a standardized answer yet.

Yet we are expanding Kandahar Airfield even more and more, why not relocate those assets for COP construction?...kick all the people out of the big FOBs so they can know what "real Afghanistan" is like. "Real Afghanistan" isn't an Iced cappucino at the French Deli...although I do enjoy it once in a while

Why not give us more engineering assets in RC(S) beyond the 30th NCR and USACE?