Contingency skills instructor returns from year-long deployment to Afghanistan
Tech. Sgt. Samuel Schmitz (right), contingency skills instructor from the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's 421st Combat Training Squadron at Fort Dix, N.J., talks with an Afghan National Army soldier through an interpreter in a village near Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 29, 2007 during his deployment there. Sergeant Schmitz, an Air Force civil engineering power production specialist, deployed as an Afghan National Army Central Movement Agency Mentor from January 2007 to February 2008. (U.S. Air Force Photo)