Capt. Aaron Smith, an 81st Civil Affairs Battalion

Capt. Aaron Smith, an 81st Civil Affairs Battalion civil affairs team leader, joins hands with a village leader during a culmination training exercise at BOAZ MOUT site Sept. 4-18. The training exercise used some scenario based training intended to challenge civil affairs soldiers in their abilities to assess the local population, as well as their ability to weed out negative powerbrokers, while promoting the positive powerbrokers.