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Personal photo of then-Maj. J.D. Loftis while on Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul, Afghanistan in 2009. He spoke Pashto proficiently and had limited skills in Dari and Arabic. So highly respected, he was given a Pashto name: Esan, meaning the quality of being generous.

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