 The Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest offers a variety of classes for Afghan National Security Forces, which are normally taught by U.S. or coalition forces. However, Sergeant Hamidullah, from the 1st Brigade to 15th Corps, Afghan National Army, has recently stepped up as one instructor in the Explosives Hazard Reduction Course. It is my job to teach these students how to search for mines and other explosives. Also, I teach them about connecting C-4 lines and fuses. The course is designed to teach the students how to safely sweep for, identify and destroy improvised explosive devices in place and destroy unexploded ordnance and explosive remnants of war within specified limits. It is very important that I can help protect the Afghan people and the AMA from danger. Hamidullah has been instructing classes within the course for three months now and continues to progress with each class. Since he's went from being a student to an instructor, he's done a great job. We have him teaching at least one of the classes each time we come through a different course and every time he's been picking up on it, great. When we go out to the field and we have them do the valentraining, he has everything we don't even need to, we don't even have to guide him anymore. He just knows what to do and what to tell the students. The goal is for as many Afghans as possible to start instructing the classes because it allows for a smoother workflow without the use of interpreters. Reporting from Camp Leatherneck, Helmand Province, I'm Coulton Meredith Brown.