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ADRASKAN NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, Afghanistan — The 408 members of the 16th Afghan National Civil Order Police class started training in October to assume their responsibilities to help secure Afghanistan’s future.
First, though, more than three-quarters of them had to learn to read.
By November, it was time to learn about traffic laws. But first, the students had to learn what side of the road Afghans are supposed to drive on, the definition of the word “highway” and the meaning of the word “law.”
In early December, after 14 weeks of intensive training in skills ranging from room clearance to marksmanship to handcuffing suspects, another class of police recruits was preparing for a driving demonstration to be presented at a formal graduation ceremony the next day.
Two police trucks were supposed to race around the track, weaving through cones. Instead, they crashed head-on. No one was seriously injured, but the trucks were totaled.
The driving demonstration was scrapped.
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