Provincial Reconstruction Team

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mazar-E-Sharif Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Andy Dunaway, USAF Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Parwan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SFC Sandra Watkinskeough, USA Release Status More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Parwan Province Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Thomas Bray, USA Release Statu More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Dandar Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SPC Thomas Bray, USA Release Status: Release More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Wardak Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SFC Sandra Watkinskeough, USA Release Status More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Base: Jalalabad State: Nangarhar Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: SSG Joseph P. Collins Jr More

Ghoryan District, Afghanistan (Jan. 05, 2005) Cmdr. Kim Evans stops to take a photo with children from the Ghoryan District. Evans is the first female commanding officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team in A More

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The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM State: Bamyan Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: CJTF 76 Scene Camera Operator: SPC Mich More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Khowst Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Camera Operator: PH2 James D. Hamill, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Di More

Khowst, Afghanistan (May. 23, 2006) U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Master Chief Kelly Schneider met with Sailors assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khowst to answer questions and address any co More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Khost Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: PRT KHOST Scene Camera Operator: MC2 James D. Hamill, USN Release Status: Released t More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Khost Country: Afghanistan (AFG) Scene Major Command Shown: PRT KHOST Scene Camera Operator: MC2 James D. Hamill, USN Release Status: Released t More

Khost, Afghanistan (Sep. 11, 2006) Commanding Officer, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost, Cmdr. John Wade, addresses Sailors and Soldiers assigned to PRT Khost during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony on the More

Khost, Afghanistan (Sep. 11, 2006) Sailors and Soldiers assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost bow their head during a moment of silence during a 9/11 remembrance ceremony on the fifth anniversa More

Khost, Afghanistan (Sep. 19, 2006) Civil Affairs Team Lead U.S. Army Capt. Al Tofani, and Commanding Officer, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost, U.S. Navy Cmdr. John Wade observe the distribution of hu More

Khost, Afghanistan (Sep. 19, 2006) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost's Commanding Officer, Cmdr. John Wade, left, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Karl Graham, Machinist's Mate 2nd Class David Mellor, and C More

Khost, Afghanistan (Sep. 19, 2006) Seated next to Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost's Commanding Officer, U.S. Navy Cmdr. John Wade, center, and Civil Affairs Team Lead U.S. Army Capt. Al Tofani, cente More

KHOST CITY, Afghanistan (Jun. 27, 2007) Commanding Officer of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost, Cmdr. David Adams and the Governor of Khost Province Arsala Jamal break ground for the Matun-Gulzar Road More

KHOST, Afghanistan (Jul. 07, 2007) U.S. Navy Cmdr. David Adams, commanding officer of Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost, drives a grader for the first few meters of a groundbreaking ceremony. This marked the More

JAJI MAIDAN, Afghanistan (Oct. 29, 2007) Construction Mechanic 1st Class Jerry Jump, an individual augmentee Sailor attached to Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost, secures the perimeter during a groundb More

Abdul Aziz Namaan, head of the Hit education committee, left, signs a certificate, initiating the start of a renovation project for the Dar Al Salaam elementary school, Nov. 22, as Capt. Devin Hammond, commande More

ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Nov. 26, 2007) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), Donald C. Winter, speaks with Sailors, Marines and Soldiers at the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) thanking them for their service. SEC More

SHEMBOWAT, Afghanistan (Nov. 29, 2007) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost team member, Culinary Specialist 1st Class Oliver Pucyk sits in the turret of a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMV More

JAJI MAIDAN, Afghanistan (Dec. 13, 2007) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost commander, Cmdr. Dave Adams looks on as tribal elders cut the ribbon at a groundbreaking ceremony for one of fifty schools fun More

JAJI MAIDAN, Afghanistan (Dec. 13, 2007) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost has funded fifty schools, designed to improve conditions for tens of thousands of students forced to attend classes without in More

JAJI MAIDAN, Afghanistan (Dec. 13, 2007) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost members, Construction Mechanic 1st Class Mike Fall and Arizona National Guard Sgt. Claude Benson return from inspecting a scho More

KHOST, Afghanistan (Dec. 21, 2007) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost executive officer, U.S. Navy Lt. Rob Holt, an Individual Augmentee (IA) from Hawaii, surveys security set by an Arizona National Gua More

KHOST, Afghanistan (Dec. 21, 2007) Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost Operations Officer, 1st. Lt. Wes Dickman, center-right, a soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division, points out the planned helicopter More

TANI, Afghanistan (Dec. 26, 2007) Commander, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Khost, Cmdr. Dave Adams, offers a prayer alongside his Afghan partners during a commemoration ceremony for the Tani Water System More

Army Staff Sgt. John L. Brickman, working as a Provincial Reconstruction Team Security Force squad leader for Parwan province, performs his duties as convoy commander inside his Humvee during a routine patrol, More

General Executive Director of Herat, Asiluddin Jami, along with the Deputy of Shura Council Chief and Gen. Abdul Majia Sadeqi, Penitentiary Institutes commander in the west region, cut the ribbon on one of twen More

Shadda Both, an accredited archeologist, holds an artifact given by members from the Provincial Reconstruction Team, so it may be placed in Q'shla museum, Kirkuk, Iraq, Jan. 15. The 400 to 2000 year-old artifac More

The Qala-e-Naw Provincial Reconstruction Team Civil-Military Cooperation unit delivers humanitarian items to villages where fortification and reinforcement gear was being delivered and installed for police stat More

Members of Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team link up with Afghanistan national police officials in the Kohband District, Kapisa province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 29, 2008. Bagram PRT and ANP are providing huma More

Nazia Hookum Darr, 16, was brutally attacked here by her 40-year-old husband of three months on Christmas day. The man - who is still on the run from police - broke 16 of his wife's teeth, shaved her head, cut More

An Iraqi woman walks her produce-filled wheel barrel across the street in front of delegates from the House Appropriations Committee for Foreign Operations as they walk through the "fish market" in the Shababkh More

International Security Assistance Force soldiers from the Kunduz Provincial Reconstruction Team hand out food during a winter relief mission conducted in Lala Maydan recently.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Feb. 29, 2008) Chief Electronics Technician David Keelan, communications department head for the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Khost, is awarded the Bronze Star medal for exception More

KHOST, Afghanistan (Feb. 29, 2008) Cmdr. Adrienne Simmons, medical provider for the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Khost, is awarded the Bronze Star medal for exceptional leadership in a combat zone by More

KHOST, Afghanistan (Feb. 29, 2008) Lt. Robert Holt, executive officer for the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Khost, is awarded the Bronze Star medal for exceptional leadership in a combat zone by Cmdr. More

Students at the Al Kut girls secondary school use computers provided by the Wasit provincial reconstruction team March 10. The school's new Internet center features 10 new computers and furniture.

An Iraqi farmer plows his land in a rural area of the northern Iraqi province of Ninewah, March 20, using a new 80-horsepower, Iraqi-built tractor donated by the U.S. Department of State Ninevah Provincial Reco More

HADITHA, Iraq (May. 19, 2008) A small boy sits on the lap of Mark Humphries, local national liaison Haditha, embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team (ePRT) with Regimental Combat Team 5, at the International Re More

Air Force Airman 1st Class Hector Martinez, a Jacksonville, Fla., native, is serving in Afghanistan with a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kapisa province. Martinez, deployed from the 99th Communications Squa More

AFGHANISTAN (Aug. 15, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead, middle, tours a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) site with other U.S. and Afghanistan leadership while visiting with Sailors, More

AFGHANISTAN (Aug. 15, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead tours a schoolhouse construction site with members of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ghazni. Roughead and Master Chief Petty More

AFGHANISTAN (Aug. 15, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead speaks with Sailors while visiting Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ghazni. Roughead, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Nav More

AFGHANISTAN (Aug. 15, 2008) Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead and other military members depart a school house construction site during a visit to Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Ghazni. More

Lithuanian army 1st Lt. Ruta Gaizetute, public affairs officer for International Security Assistance Force Provincial Reconstruction Team Camp Whiskey, meets with local villagers during a Civilian Military Coop More

Iraqi media videotape while State Department members listen in during a meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Al Anbar Governor Ma'Moun Sami Rasheed Al Awani (not shown) at the Provinc More

Dr. Zamari Soltan begins treating a malnourished Afghan child with "strong food" a vitamin enriched high calories emergency food supplement. The Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team, is working with local heath More

Staff Sgt. Nestor Albalos prepares an infection control station to clean dental tools prior to a Village Dental Outreach visit here. The visit was hosted by the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team. Albalos, PR More

An Iraqi student receives a backpack from an Iraqi soldier while an Iraqi police officer ensures she receives the rest of her school supplies.

An Afghan child wears a coat he received during a humanitarian assistance visit. The clothes, shoes, coats and blankets brought to the refugee camp were donations made to Operation Care by American citizens. Th More

Members of a provincial reconstruction team speak with Afghan children during a mission in Manawara District, Konar province, Afghanistan, Dec. 14.

Capt. Eric Jabs, commanding officer, Naval Operational Support Center Norfolk, presents Cmdr. Steven Masdon the Bronze Star. Masdon received the award for efforts as Deputy Team Leader and Projects Officer for More

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PAKTIKA, Afghanistan (Aug. 09, 2009) Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Ray Mabus poses for a photo with Sailors while touring a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Paktika, Afghanistan. Mabus the Sailo More

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Mar. 22, 2010) Lt. j.g. Vince Lopez, a medical officer with the Provincial Reconstruction Team, is updated by Dr. Ahmad Baseer, public health advisor for Paktika province, on the More

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Mar. 22, 2010) Lt. j.g. Vince Lopez, a medical officer with the Provincial Reconstruction Team, studies a child's medical chart with Dr. Ahmad Baseer, public health advisor for Pa More

Members from Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah's Civil Affairs and Civil Engineering team, along with Farahi Chief Justice and construction contractor members pose for a group photo in front of the com More

Left: U.S. Army Sgt. Tiffany Dalagelis of Philadelphia, Pa., Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah civil affairs member and Female Engagement Team non-commissioned officer in charge and middle: Marsha Michel of More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Maria Leal Reynolds, Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul knowledge operations manager, helps Afghan girls decorate new scarves at the Zarghona Girls' School July 8. Members of PRT More

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Georganne Hassell, Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul information operations officer, helps Afghan students decorate scarves at the Zarghona Girls' School in Qalat City, Zabul province, More

A lone flower in a field stands tall during an all women’s shura conducted in the Shib Koh District in Farah province, Afghanistan, July 10. The women’s shura was proposed by Haidari, who invited the FET to lis More

Public Health Officials hand out medical supplies to local villagers as part of the Village Medical Outreach Program conducted in Khorma Leq, Farah province, Afghanistan, July 19. Approximately 200-300 resident More

Humanitarian assistance supplies are loaded for transport from Forward Operation Base Smart to the Shinkai District, Zabul province, Aug. 6, 2010. Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul worked alongsid More

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class Ashley Smith of Cashmere, Wash., Forward Surgical Team Farah operating room technician, left, provides medical treatment to an Afghan National Army soldier at Forward Ope More

Soldiers and airmen fire their weapons together on the "stress fire" range at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center in central Indiana at dawn, Aug. 24. "Stress Fire" gives troops an opportunity to fire More

An Afghan girl holds her little sister at the Pul-e Alam District hospital, which is small, over crowded, and under staffed as they wait to be seen, Sept. 4, Pul-e Alam, Logar province, Afghanistan. (Photo by: More

Left to right: Abdul Zair Assistant Site Manager, Construction Mechanic Second Class Andy Tran Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah engineer and an interpreter for PRT Farah discuss construction progress of the More

U.S. Army Maj. Loren Adams of New Liberty, Iowa, right, the veterinary officer for the 734th Agri-Business Development Team, delivers 300 doses of rabies vaccine to U.S. Navy Lt. Kyle N. Burditt of Dodge City, More

Rahim Faizi, head nurse of Farah City Hospital and Builder Chief Sean Walters of Leavenworth, Kan., engineering chief for Provincial Reconstruction Team discuss the quality of the electrification project at Far More

Rice, meatballs and corn are placed on plates in preparation for the Iftar Dinner held at Forward Operating Base Farah in Afghanistan, Sept. 6. Dignified leaders in Farah Province, Coalition forces and United More

U.S. Army Spc. Theodore Schmidt, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, participates in a watermelon eating competition, in celebration of Labor Day, Sept. 10, Forward Operating Base Shank, Logar province, Afghani More

Joe Quinn of Boston, Mass., Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team, left, and U.S. Army Capt. Patrick Dowdell of Ft. Carson, Colo., Chief of Operations, 4/42nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Comb More

U.S. service members assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team wait to open gifts during a special Christmas in September celebration at Forward Operating Base Farah, Afghanistan, Sept. 12. The event was orche More

Farah Provincial Governor Rahool Amin addresses hundreds during a shura in the remote district of Pur Chaman, Afghanistan, Sept. 15. Gov. Amin and other provincial level officials conducted a two-day visit to More

Farah Provincial Governor Rahool Amin speaks to audience members during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Farah Wholesale Market in Farah, Afghanistan, Sept. 27. The market, a joint Government Islamic Republi More

Members from Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah listen as the Governor Rahool Amin addresses the villagers of Togj in Farah Afghanistan, Sept. 29. After three years of contract refinements and construction, F More

Chief Petty Officer Richard Heppard of Warrenton, Va., serves food to a junior sailor on Forward Operating Base Farah in Afghanistan, Oct. 13, 2010. Sailors assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah, cel More

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Bill Mallory of Chesapeake, Va., commanding officer of the Nuristan Provincial Reconstruction Team, arrives at Forward Operating Base Kala Gush. He leads men and women from the U.S. Army, Navy a More

U.S. Navy Cmdr. William B. Goss of Edgewater, Md., commanding officer of Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team, passes the Kunar PRT guidon to U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Viriato Ferrera, El Paso, Texas, Nov. 3, symboli More

Members of Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team provides security during a shura in Mirzaka, Nov. 4. The shura gave new PRT personnel the opportunity to introduce themselves to local Afghan leadership and disc More

Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Paktiya approach a meeting site to attend a shura in Mirzaka, Afghanistan, Nov. 4. The shura was an oppurtunity for the new PRT personnel to introduce themselves to loc More

U.S. Army Col. Andrew P. Poppas of Janesville, Wis., commanding officer of Task Force Bastogne, transfers the Nuristan Provincial Reconstruction Team flag to the new commanding officer U.S. Navy Cmdr. Bill Mall More

U.S Army Maj. Scott DeJesse (left) of Amarillo, Texas, the Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team district support team leader, watches as district leaders conduct a shura in Alingar District here Nov. 6. Givin More

Members of the Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team present arms during a transfer of authority ceremony at Forward Operating Base Gardez Nov. 6. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Marchal Magee from Issquah, Wash., repl More

U.S. Army Spc. James McDougall (left) from Haverville, Mass., and U.S. Army Spc. Christopher Ahearn (right) from Quincy, Mass., both members of the Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team, load an MK-19 40mm gren More

U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Jainarine Singh (left), Combined Joint Task Force 101 Information Operations sergeant major, from New York, and an Afghan soldier load humanitarian relief supplies onto a truck at Forward Op More

A view of the mountains in Jaghori District, Ghazni province in Afghanistan. Texas National Guard Ghazni Agribusiness Development Team-IV conducted a site assessment in the area to assess an agriculture demonst More

Art Degroat, Virgina Moxley, Kirk Schulz, and Jeff Morris stand in front of a traditional Iraqi home display within the Mittica Training Center during their visit to see the progression of southern Iraq.

Participants of a recently completed English course display their abilities during a presentation in Ghazni City. The seven-month course, provided by the Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team and Afghan non-gov More

Art Degroat, Virgina Moxley, Kirk Schulz, and Jeff Morris stand in front of a traditional Iraqi home display within the Mittica Training Center during their visit to see the progression of southern Iraq.

U.S. Air Force Capt. Kirk Greene, Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team, from Portville, N.Y., inspects a school undergoing construction in Gerda Serai here Nov. 15. The school, which cost $250,000 to build, is More

A Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team member provides security while other PRT members perform a quality assurance inspection at a school construction site in Sayed Karam, Nov. 18. The Paktya PRT enhances the More

Members of Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team tour the Gardez Provincial Hospital here Nov. 21. U.S. Air Force Capt. Donna Laulo, the PRT physician's assistant, from Puyallup, Wash., examined the capabilitie More

Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, tours Paktya University with local leaders Nov. 29. The ambassador visited several facilities in Gardez and answered questions from Afghan media about security a More

U.S. Army Col. Malcom Frost, commander of the 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, speaks during the grand opening of the Rafidain Bank in the Sala-Aruba Marketplace, located in Muqdadiyah, Ir More