Spc. Benjamin Miller, from Delta Co., 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry, a National Guard unit from Salem, Illinois – attached for security detail for PRT Zabul – leaves the bunk room to clean truck parts in the late afternoon in Qalat, Afghanistan.
PRT stands Provincial Reconstruction Team, which is sort of an umbrella organization system for USAID, State, DOJ, Agriculture, the military, etc. to work with local governments on rebuilding the country. Some, but not all of them, are under ISAF – International Security Assistance Force – the NATO-led, multi-national security and development mission that is in charge of RC(S) – Regional Command South, which is made up of Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, and Zabul provinces. I will leave out PRDC, QRF (tricky, there are two kinds), CSP, LGP, and CAP for now.
