An Afghan national civil order policeman with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Afghan National Civil Order Police Brigade, walks through a village in the Arghandab River Valley, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, during a joint patrol with members of Special Operations Task Force-South Aug.28. Since members of SOTF-S partnered with the ANCOP of 3rd Battalion more than a month-and-a-half ago, desertion among the Afghan unit has been less than one percent, compared to the ANCOP attrition rate across the country more than a year ago, which was at upwards of 80 percent.