Part two of his interview regarding his Global War on Terrorism deployments covers Major William B. Burley's 2005 service in Afghanistan as a civil affairs team leader in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He discusses the wide variety of operations he and his team participated in in both the Shin Kay and Kaz Uruzgan regions, including providing emergency humanitarian assistance of food, fuel and medical care during a particularly harsh winter. Burley also talks about instances of "tribal-centric" corruption that involved Afghan governmental and police figures; his interactions with various Afghan ethnic groups; his team's practice of supporting those groups that supported the coalition and denying support to those that didn't; as well as their efforts to establish vocational, as opposed to religious, schools - and for Afghan girls in particular. "As Americans," Burley explained, "we go in and try to educate people to read books and understand things. While that is wise and we want them to do that, it's also important to teach them a trade that is tangible and can feed them in the future. That's much more effective in a third-world country like Afghanistan." Burley stresses again how important medical support was to building rapport and trust among Afghan civilians; describes how he "blurred the lines between being sociable and being a professional soldier"; tells how the use of horses greatly improved his team's overall effectiveness; and recounts a number of firefights they found themselves involved in. Additionally, Burley talks about the various sources of money he had access to as well as the burdensome amounts of red tape they had to cut through in order to use any of it. He also discusses cultural awareness training at length and why it would have been a "serious cultural faux pas" if he hadn't been able to have a beard in Afghanistan.

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