Try, Try Again: The Texas Guard in Afghanistan
![Almost 80% of the Afghan population is engaged in agriculture, most of it subsistence-level. Here an Afghan farm village sits on a sere plain in Ghazni Province.](https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/syzX9qFUqJ7cMS7suuQkTPbD-U4=/850x570/smart/filters:quality(75)/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/wissing-kut-ghazniPlain.jpg)
A group of Texas soldiers is fighting on a different front in Afghanistan. Farmer-soldiers from the Texas National Guard Agribusiness Development Team, or ADT, are helping farmers and herdsmen in insurgency-plagued eastern Afghanistan.
In the third of KUT Radio's four-part series on the Texas ADT, Douglas Wissing has the story of the complicated nature of the team’s work in Afghanistan — and how what looks good in satellite imagery doesn’t always work out on the ground.
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