The medical company I have been assigned to train and mentor are a diverse group. Coming from all parts of Afghanistan, they also have very diverse backgrounds. Luckily I was assigned several soldiers who have the ability to read and write. Most ANA soldiers are illiterate, making the job of teaching more difficult than most can imagine. Most of our teams soldiers come from provinces other than Kabul, where there is still little or no electicity, schools, hospitals, running water, indoor plumbing, and many other things most people take for granted are already in place. The few medics that I have trained are now eaching others in their own language. And my team has began to teach English to the medics starting from the basic "see spot, see spot run" level all the way up to teaching a couple of the most mentally capapble medics basic medical Latin. Being able to work as medics along side the Physicians Assistants of this ANA medical company, has produced a never before experienced feeling of pride, esteem, self worth, and for the first time for many of them; the desire for higher learning and formal medical academics.