In this June 2013 interview, COL Jeff Dill, US Army, Infantry, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as the assistant chief of staff of the ISAF Joint Command and as the V Corps operations officer (G3) in 2012 through 2013 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). COL Dill talks about the build-up of V Corps and the training, especially the benefits of being in Europe to train with our NATO partners. He describes the leadership of GEN Terry and GEN Allen and talks about some changes he noticed with GEN Dunford. He discusses the vision for the Unified Implementation Plan and shares issues with the cognitive shift of Afghans in the lead. He shares how IJC was dealing with the insider threat. COL Dill closes his interview by stating, ". . . I think that will be looked at in the future as, "How in the world were they able to do that." I tried to offer you some reasons why I think it was doable -- geographic location, NATO partner proximity, one-third of a larger headquarters, and then training that started from the day people starting populating it at smaller iterations, and built up over time. It was repetitive rather than one time, "Well this group missed it." Well, no, we did it repetitively over and over and you made sure you got it."

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