 From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Today, a daily feature from around the globe. The Shirana Road Project is small in size, large in scope. The roads connect families, they connect tribes, they connect economic epicenters. Major Adam Chalmers is with the 9th Engineer Battalion, 172nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The road is less than a mile in length, but it's typical of what passes for thoroughfares in much of Afghanistan. These roads right here have probably very little, if any, work done to them. So one of the things that the ANA want us to help with is to make this road, which actually leads to their hospital for the city, improve it. This muddy, bumpy roadway is the primary access to the Shirana Business Center, a shopping district filled with the needs of an agricultural community. The workload is a shared affair between American and Afghan forces. Everyone brings what they can. Captain Anwar with the ANA's 2nd Brigade says their job is much more than just being in the Army. He says with the roads, merchants will benefit because cars and motorcycles will be able to come in. The work itself is tedious, dirty and potentially dangerous. One of the things that we try to highlight is, you know, the Taliban and the insurgents, they like to destroy but we can build. And so that's one of the contrasts that juxtapose kind of things that we like to show. When finished, the road will benefit economic development. And here in Shirana, it will become a highway to future avenues. Army Today from Soldiers Radio and Television.