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This year marks the first time the sands of southern Afghanistan have seen the tire treads of Army Strykers. The 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division's campaign in the Kandahar province depends upon the vehicles freely roaming the desert, disrupting counterinsurgency patterns and enemy supply chains.
11.18.09, Story by Pvt. Luke Rollins
Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, have spent the first months of their deployment introducing themselves to the people of the Kandahar region and its terrain.
11.18.09, Story by Pvt. Luke Rollins
Regional hospital representatives met at Camp Hero's Kandahar Regional Military Hospital Nov. 17 to discuss how to better open the lines of communication between the local medical facilities and efficiently transfer and provide care for local patients.
11.17.09, Story by Sgt. Aaron Rosencrans
A U.S. Naval officer deployed to a sea of sand was recognized as the Navy Senior Psychologist of the Year.
Cmdr. David E. Jones couldn't accept the award in person because he was deployed here to Kandahar Airfield. Instead, the Navy did the next best thing.
11.12.09, Story by Pfc. Casey Collier
Two British soldiers' career paths lead them to friendship, friendship carries them through battle.
11.02.09, Story by Pfc. David Hauk
Maj. Loftis has a Pashto name -- Esan. People are always asking him what it means.
Deployed to Forward Operating Base Smart – a small military compound located in the heart of the Southern Afghan city of Qalat – the Air Force Public Information Officer leaves quite an impression with the Afghan community he lives and works in, even if that community happens to be in the middle of a war zone.
10.26.09, Story by Staff Sgt. David Flaherty
On Aug. 25, Captain John Hallett III, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, was killed in an IED attack in the Arghandab District of the Kandahar province.
10.23.09, Story by Pfc. Casey Collier
The Qalat prison in southern Afghanistan is home to Zabul Province's most dangerous criminals. Its confined cells are filled with thieves, murderers, child molesters and known Taliban fighters.
10.17.09, Story by Staff Sgt. David Flaherty
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, confiscated more than a half-ton of black tar heroin during an early morning patrol Oct. 12 in the Maywand district of the Kandahar province.
10.16.09, Story by Pvt. Luke Rollins
The Canadian Forces Health Services transferred command of the Role III Multi-National Medical Unit to the U.S. Navy's 575th Area Support Medical Company on Thursday, Oct 15.
10.16.09, Courtesy Story
Kandahar Airfield opened the U.S. Joint Medical Treatment Facility, Thursday, Oct. 15. 2009. The building will be run by the 575th Area Support Medical Company.
10.15.09, Story by Pfc. David Hauk
Fire Prevention Week was held on Kandahar Airfield from Oct 5-10. The week was sponsored by the Kandahar Airfield Fire Department.
10.11.09, Story by Pfc. David Hauk
Many years after WWII and thousands of miles away, U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye visited with service members and civilians for lunch Sunday afternoon.
10.11.09, Story by Capt. Allie Scott
Patrolling a military installation isn't the same as patrolling his local neighborhood back home, said Spc. Joseph Roetman, a military police officer with the 415th Military Police Detachment and a civilian police officer in Ft. Dodge, Iowa.
10.09.09, Story by Pfc. David Hauk
It is 7 A.M. on October 7th in the Shinkay District, Zabul Province of Southern Afghanistan.
10.07.09, Story by Pfc. Casey Collier
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