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“Well, then it was a brawl; it was on,” Glaspell added.

Mark Glaspell, an Army engineer with the 101st Airborne Division who served as a mentor to Afghan forces from 2010 to 2011, said even simple exercises went haywire.

Glaspell recalled trying to teach an Afghan platoon in the eastern city of Gardez how to exit a CH-47 Chinook, a heavy-lift helicopter used to transport troops and supplies.

“We were working on that and it was going pretty good and all of a sudden this Afghan soldier walks up and he and one of the guys in the class started to get into an argument,” Glaspell said in an Army oral-history interview.

National Elk Refuge Manager Brian Glaspell says he anticipates a strong turnout after the opening last year had 280 vehicles lined up on the road to the refuge near Jackson.