You're not the first person to ask me that, so I think that is an idea that's being considered.
It's a lot easier to go in those villages if you're dressed in what they refer to as normal clothes, which is the type of clothes you see on the screen. When we're working there, we dress as Afghans. I wear Afghan men's clothes, and so do the other non-Afghan colleagues with me who are ex-military.
When I said it's a war zone, that's an area where weapons are prevalent and people are carrying weapons all the time. So most of the people who are out and about are carrying weapons, and the young men carry weapons. So you have to be comfortable with that environment.
An idea that I think could be explored is that part of the military wear local clothes—and you have to wear a beard, because they're all growing their beards back—in which it is comfortable carrying a weapon as part of the food aid distribution, because in the pictures that you saw, when we're doing food aid there are weapons around. You have to find a balance and a way to manage that and manage the risk. The second or third time you go back to a village, you can be more comfortable because they start to protect you.
I'm not familiar enough with how the military is structured, whether it's an insurmountable problem to take them out of their uniforms. I don't understand enough about that. If it were possible...if the military delivers aid, I can see doing it out of their uniforms would help them be more successful and manage the risk to the military who are involved with it.