KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan National Army (ANA) is closer than ever to fully fielding Afghanistan’s first and only National Engineer Brigade (NEB) thanks to the hard work of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of Joint Task Force Sapper.
Through continued mentorship and synchronization between Task Force Coda, Joint Task Force Sapper Headquarters, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), and NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A), the NEB is closer than ever to moving into their new home station at Camp Ghazi in Central Afghanistan.
Progress has been made and is continuing to be made in several areas of the NEB development as it graduates from the Combined Fielding Center (CFC).
Unparalleled training, resourcing, and partnership operations are proving to be an essential part in establishing this national asset that will be able to project specialty skills across the Combined Joint Operations Area-Afghanistan (CJOA-A).
“The unique capability the NEB has the potential to provide is critical for the future of the ANA to conduct bridging and well-drilling operations across Afghanistan,” Capt Michael Williams, ANA Development Officer for the Theater Engineer Brigade (TEB) explains. “The level of effort applied to this mission stretches from the tactical level to the strategic level.”
Some of these specialty skills include vertical and horizontal construction, water well drilling, and bridging.
Soldiers of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 28 have been working relentlessly to ensure the best quality training is provided to the ANA to ensure high quality output once their mission set is transitioned to their replacements, NMCB 25, in the coming months.
The flexibility, versatility, and independence these specialty skills provide will far outlast any United States Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) presence.
At present, the forefront of this effort is providing logistics support to the NEB as they continue to establish themselves at their new location.
The logistics effort is two-fold: ensuring the proper entities such as NTM-A and CSTC-A are integrated into all the TEB’s planning efforts and that the TEB’s planning efforts involve strengthening and utilizing the Afghan logistics systems.
| Date Taken: | 02.26.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 02.26.2014 09:17 |
| Story ID: | 121181 |
| Location: | KABUL, AF |
| Hometown: | SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HI, US |
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