OEF Veteran here. I think this was highly dependent on a) where you were in-country and b) when you were there. There were some controls put in place, and a lo

OEF Veteran here. I think this was highly dependent on a) where you were in-country and b) when you were there. There were some controls put in place, and a lot of it came from the State Department (?), by the time I left. Asking for “progress reports” would’ve been a completely futile endeavor though. It’s hard to describe ... they just don’t keep records, and the ones they kept were usually fake or highly “influenced”. I remember one “contract” we gave out to some locals for building culverts in roads with drainage problems (Afghanistan is pretty mountainous in places, so only dirt roads exist and the soil isn’t that great). They built a couple and then just disappeared. When we asked some folks about where they went we’d get blank stares, like they didn’t know who we were talking about. Wild place.