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Members of the 36-43rd Company of the New Hampshire National Guard are back home.

This week, they're taking part in a mandatory re-integration program to help ease them back into civilian life after being stationed in Baghdad for about a year.

But while those soldiers may be out of harms way, New Hampshire has others deployed in the middle east.

Some of them are in Afghanistan training their counterparts in the Afghan National Army, the ANA.

Staff Sgt Tim Burns, from Nashua, was with the 210th Engineers of the New Hampshire National Guard, headquartered in Peterborough.

Currently he's embedded as a mentor at Camp Mike Spann in Northern Afghanistan,

He's training Afghan soldiers to improve the local infrastructure.

But before you hear about Burns' job there, we need to translate a few terms he uses.

He talks about Terps.....those are interpreters.

And he mentions the fob ....that's a forward operating base.

He spoke with NHPR Correspondent Douglas Grindle.