"I was like, how come I get Lear jets? You know, oh, they're important. We're the scrubs," he says of his first impression of soldiers in Afghanistan. "There's an entire generation of Americans that were born either right at or after 9-11 who don't understand what this war is all about." The U.S. invaded Afghanistan when it was number 14 on the world opium production list; now it's No. 1.

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