Challenge

"We are doing some intensive training with one of the districts, providing both soldier training and "systems training" to the leadership. When we first arrived at the district, being new to the area, we met the CoP (Chief of Police,) who seemed to be a pretty stand-up guy. We told him about our intentions, and he was all "on board" with it.
A week later, when we came to the district to do some final coordination, that CoP was gone… no trace. In his place was another Lieutenant Colonel who was the new CoP. He seemed like a decent guy, talking about community policing and getting out to meet the village elders in the area. This all sounded good to us.

When we arrived to do the training, he was like a changed man. Not to myself and the Captain, of course… at first. He first showed his colors to SSG Prince, squad leader of the MP's who work to train the ANP in this area (which is a very different arrangement from the other province, where we rarely saw and never worked with any MP's.) He made it obvious to SSG Prince that he was not going to be cooperative. SSG Prince voiced this, but the Captain and I took a wait-and-see position."
Afghan Adventure