Army 1st Lt. James Small, a soil scientist, accepts an apple from an Afghan boy in a tree nursery near the village of Shakar Khel, Gardez district, Sept. 5, 2012. Small is a member of the Nebraska National Guard Agribusiness Development Team, the agricultural section for the Paktiya Provincial Reconstruction Team, and is helping his team conduct a quality assurance/quality control mission at the nursery to assess the farmer's needs and how the ADT can improve the quality of his product. Back to the basics, ADT visits tree nurseries to assess progress 120905-A-GH622-163

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