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  • Los Angeles police Sgt. Bill Smith (right) talks with Marine 1st Lt. Tylor Johnston as they ready for a ride-along in Los Angeles. Seventy Marines recently patrolled streets with the Los Angeles police in a weeklong exercise to help the Marines with law enforcement in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    L.A. police teach Marines how to train Afghan police

    U.S. Marines are participating in a training exercise that aims to adapt the investigative techniques the Los Angeles police have used for decades against violent street gangs to take on the Taliban more as a powerful drug-trafficking mob than an insurgency.

  • Marine Lt. Andrew Abbott from Camp Pendleton rides along with police Sgt. Arno Clair (not pictured) in Los Angeles. Lt. Abbott was one of 70 Marines who patrolled the streets to learn how to treat the Taliban more as a powerful drug-trafficking mob than an insurgency. (Associated Press)

    L.A. police teach Marines how to train Afghan police

    Dozens of Camp Pendleton Marines took part in a training exercise that aims to adapt the investigative techniques the LAPD has used for decades against violent street gangs to take on the Taliban more as a powerful drug-trafficking mob than an insurgency.

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