Afghan National Army

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Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan army chief of staff, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Afghan National Army soldiers are taking the lead at Camp Shorabak, a base in Southwest Afghanistan where they live and train. (Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)

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Marine Staff Sgt. David Denseley (center) from Salt Lake City helps members of the Afghan National Army clean out the bore of a 60 mm mortar at a mortar range in Helmand province. (U.S. Marine Corps)

Credit: Marines watch proudly as their Afghan National Army students graduate from a class on using 60mm mortars at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan on May 9th, 2013. Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times

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An Afghan National Army soldier graduates from a course on 60mm mortar systems, taught by coalition instructors at the Regional Corps Battle School on May 9, 2013 at Camp Shorabak in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)

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Afghan National Army soldiers march in formation on May 9, 2013 at Camp Shorabak, an Afghan base in Southwest Afghanistan where they live, train and take courses. (Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Afghan National Army soldiers rush to the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Qalat in Afghanistan's Zabul province on April 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A U.S. Marine squad leader patrols alongside an Afghan National Army lieutenant in Helmand province in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** An Afghan National Army soldier wears an ammunition belt around his neck during a joint patrol with U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, in the volatile Arghandab Valley outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, in July 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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**FILE** Afghan National Army Lt. Col. Abdul Wakil Warzajy (left), battalion commander, gives orders to soldiers of the First Battalion before they set out on a search and capture mission towards the village of Noor Khiel village, Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Afghan National Army soldiers secure the gate of the military hospital after Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official who became an Afghan peace negotiator, was killed by an unknown attacker in western Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)