Afghan Instructors Teach Afghan Soldiers - DefendAmerica News Article

Good news from Afghanistan. As U.S. Army Sgt. Mason T. Lowery, Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan Public Affairs reports:

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2005 — The Afghan National Army's Command and General Staff College graduated its sixth class Aug. 22 - the first class taught entirely by Afghan instructors.

French officers first taught the four-month course when the staff college opened in 2004. They selected top Afghan graduates from the second class to become instructors. The French gradually transferred authority to the Afghan National Army officers and assumed the role of advisors by April 2005.

The French officers will remain at the college to teach new courses in artillery, engineering and logistics, and will again choose top Afghan students from those classes to become future instructors. In a year, the college will have only three French instructors instead of the current eight, said French Army Lt. Col. Gaeton Sevin, chief of the Command and General Staff College French training team...

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