Round shaped, brass colored coin, 2 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • Afghan Nat. Army, Embed.Tng. Tm.
Location
Coin Location: 2J7
Homebase: Afghanistan
Additional Information
Date Acquired: Prior to 21 March 2008
Donated by: Unknown
Copies: 1 of 1

C001314

Location: 2J7 Height: 2

Coin: Unit - Deployment

U.S. Army » Training

Narrative

Round shaped, brass colored coin, 2 inches in diameter.

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U.S. Embedded Training Team (ETT) Personnel for Afghan National Army (ANA]

An average ETT team is sixteen American soldiers, embedded into an Afghan Battalion of about five hundred soldiers. These ETTs are separated into teams of two, each team assigned to its own individual Afghan National Army Company of about one hundred Afghan soldiers. They are embedded into these foreign ranks with little knowledge of Afghanistan's language, history, or culture, and they are forced, often in the heat of battle, to abandon the American doctrine of warfare and embrace creativity, patience, and primitive war-fighting techniques.